12by12daily : BIG UPDATE: 25th September

September 25, 2006

Today Dave, administrator of 12by12daily made a big update. Let´s see them:

1)  PROBLEMS SURFING TODAY (AND THIS WEEK)

Rest assured that any missed surfing today will be credited.  The timeouts, slowness of the site have been caused by a record number of members upgrading their accounts today.  The simple solution is to upgrade the server again but our programmer is overseas until next Monday.  It may take some time to get things more stable again but please be patient and please remember that YOU WILL BE CREDITED A FULL DAY OF SURFING even if you were unable to do it.

So everyone don´t have to worry for today surf, because is really a mess to surf right now.

2)  FORUM SECURITY WARNING – IMPORTANT!

Yes we do understand that you are getting a few security updates.  At the moment there really isn’t anything to worry about but it’s important to be safe.  This forum is used by members of (currently) the largest and most popular autosurf online.  Our autosurf site has more protection than Fort Knox and you can all sleep soundly in your beds because of this.  This forum has less security measures and therefore we want to be careful.

As you have all registered in this forum with your 12by12daily username, please be sure to use a different password here than on the surf site.      If you need to change it, click on [Profile] at the top of this page, and then “Account Related Settings” on the left.

We’d like to stress that it is very unlikely that this will happen, and even if it did there’s nothing a hacker could do within the 12by12 surf site anyway but it’s necessary to save any possible headaches in the future.

As Dave stress about not using the same password as your autosurf we would like to add also, try to not use the same email address and password in the forum, so like this if the forum is hacked and some “bad boys” has access to the database of the forum they will not be able to guess your email address that you are using on the autosurf. So be careful.

3)  REFERRAL UPDATES

I think there’s a lot of us patiently waiting for our referral commissions to be processed.  We’d really love to be able to give you a timeframe for how long this will take but this is not such an easy question.

Paying a referral is only a case of clicking twice in the site’s administrative panel.  It takes Dave only a few seconds to do this.  Right now though the database has not referenced which members were paid their first referral payouts so there is a danger that in rushing too fast Dave might double-pay people.  He is therefore having to spent a few minutes checking each persons payout history before he authorizes the next payout, and (at the moment) he’s doing it manually.

What will happen is that we’ll get to a member who joined just after all these problems finished.  This member (and every member after that) will not have been a member long enough to have been paid their first referral payments.  Once Dave gets to this member the remaining payouts will be MUCH faster.

Believe me Dave is not enjoying all the tedious work here and POSSIBLY when our programmer returns from his travels next week they might develop a much more effective way of doing this but for now it’s still just one man and his mouse.

I was not aware for that in my absent in Autosurf world, about referral comissions but come on guys be patient referral comissions are only a bonus (extra). But we also know that  members pay for advertising their referral link and earn money from referral comissions and that is not ilegal but as Dave said, we have to be patient and see what happens, believe me  I have also  referral comissions and a lot.

4)  FORUM DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE

We’ve had the forum offline for a few hour longer than expected but as you can see it’s back online again now.   Please remember that I’ll be doing my maintenance every Monday.  I’ve cleaned up a lot of the older posts (although possible a bit too much).  From now on I’ll do my best to keep threads open for longer and not delete them so readily.

5)  UPDATES TO THE FORUM

As you see we now have a “Work Together” section to the forum.  This section is not for just making friends, its here so that we can all move forward and reap the rewards of the forum.  We have a huge range of people here, all with different skills, backgrounds and experiences.  I’d love for this forum to be a meeting place where we can not only make new friends but perhaps start some businesses together, help others make the most of referrals and marketing etc.  You guys have all been so great this last few weeks that I’m confident that we can all benefit from this part of the site.

I’ve had very little cause to throw anything into the Lion Pit this last week.  I apologize if a few things have been thrown in when maybe they shouldn’t.  A sincere sorry goes to yaboytp who posted about the exact time he’d get paid.  I misread his motives for doing this and regret that he got a few bites taken from him.

I’m also going to remove the block for people posting the “? = ref” links on the site.  I trust you enough to treat this respectfully so please keep any referrals safely tucked away in the signatures.  Anybody abusing this will be dealt with.

Also I’ve enabled polls on the site.  My first poll will be to ask you when you login to the site to surf.  We have 1,200 members here now so I’m hoping that we might be able to identify some quiet times to surf where the traffic is much less.  I’ll sort that out this coming week.

It’s been a crazy day today with the rest of my work so I’ve not managed to get everything up in time.  I’ll sneak a few more areas into the site over the coming week.

6)  FRAMEBREAKERS

We’ve had quite a few grumbles about framebreakers.  These are the sites which prevent you from surfing.  They interrupt the surfbar and make you have to log back in again.  The most efficient way Dave can eliminate these is if you are lucky enough to be able to click on the “report this site” link in the toolbar.  Otherwise please do post the sites in the “report a framebreaker” thread in the forum.  Please do be patient though as Dave has bigger priorities right now and searching through a big database to find web sites takes a lot of time.

7)  A LOOK FORWARD

As I said before we’ve had a record day of upgrades again.  This is a very positive sign.  We are all aware that the site can get overloaded at the moment when too many people are upgrading and surfing.  Consider this as a positive sign that we are growing strongly.  The next week you may continue to have problems logging in or surfing but rest assured you will not lose any credit if you are unable to surf.   All upgrade payments have been made on time and it seems that we are gaining support in the autosurf forums.

Once our programmer is back next week you should see some further improvements to how the site runs and, as ever, We’ll get any updates to you as soon as we can.

Best wishes,

The 12by12Daily Team

As an experienced user in this field, we have heard many promises and “our programmer will be here next week”. I hope and also 12by12daily members hope that will be true and not another false “good Sign”. What I can tell that is true that today is overloaded and many people are upgrading because mostly all my referrals upgraded today.
Remember invest what you can afford to lose!

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