• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Private Message Problems

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Having some difficulty with private messaging lately.... I get notifications about the PM through my E-mail but when I click the link to go read it my Inbox shows it is empty. I've tried different routes like not clicking the link and just accessing the PM inbox through the site and it's all the same. Am I missing something here or some particular way I have to go about this to just read a message? Thanks in advance!
-Angelina
 
Another person contacted me about PM issues (PMs not being received by the other party). I haven't had any luck figuring out what's going on or replicating the issue (I've been able to send and receive PMs).

Perhaps it has something to do with how the site is accessed. Are you using a tablet or phone?
 
Thank you for the reply! I have tried accessing the PMs on both my Phone and Computer. Both with no success.
 
Please post the (exact) notification message you are receiving.
 
This is it.
 

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I received the e-mail about you PMing me but the link goes to my empty inbox.
 

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Hmmmm - have you tried logging out and signing back in, deleting cookies, etc?


I'd noticed that a lot of my PMs weren't getting responses - figured they were just being ignored.
In retrospect, I have been receiving a lower volume of PMs....but I've had email notifications turned off for years, so I figured people were just leaving me alone, lol.
 
I have tried to log out and then log back in. I don't know how to delete cookies so I haven't tried that. Will do so. I think I can still send PM just not receive... Few months back I sent a PM and I *think* they replied but my inbox said it was empty. I figured maybe they didn't send me one and it was just a glitch.
 
I just sent you a private message. Let me know if you have received it.
 
hhmoore said:
I'd noticed that a lot of my PMs weren't getting responses - figured they were just being ignored.
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When I tried responding to the last one you sent me, I got a message that it couldn't be delivered since your PM box was full.
 
bcr229 said:
When I tried responding to the last one you sent me, I got a message that it couldn't be delivered since your PM box was full.
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Separate issue. My mailbox reaches capacity quite regularly. If I'm saving a bunch of messages for follow-up, I can't always purge them.....Even if i wipe it right out, it's generally full within 4-6 weeks at the most (unless I'm laying low)
 
SqueakinGeckos said:
Having some difficulty with private messaging lately.... I get notifications about the PM through my E-mail but when I click the link to go read it my Inbox shows it is empty. I've tried different routes like not clicking the link and just accessing the PM inbox through the site and it's all the same. Am I missing something here or some particular way I have to go about this to just read a message? Thanks in advance!
-Angelina
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Please check your inbox to see if this problem has been fixed.
 
After all the notifications in my E-mail I finally received a message in my inbox. This is the e-mail I opened and followed the link.
 

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Looks like it is working now. :thumbsup:

My programmer checked into it and apparently what was causing this problem was that there were actually three registrations for your user name. My programmer said that this can happen when the server is excessively slow for some reason, and a new user will think their original registration did not take, and therefore jump the gun and make one or more identical registrations. ALL of which somehow get accepted by vBulletin. Seems like a bug to me, but it is what it is, I suppose.

So it's possible that others may have this same problem, but it is likely quite rare.
 
Thank you so much! I think I remember making others (at least one other) and forgetting about it or the password and just making a new one... Sorry about that! I've started writing down all my accounts and passwords so stuff like that doesn't happen anymore.
 
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