B. U. G. S.

@ Gator61

Does anyone know why I keep getting redirected to porn sites when I try to get to Bob’s Blog on my android phone?

It sounds like a redirect script that only targets android phones. Redirect scripts tell your computer/phone to load a different webpage instead of the one you went to. The redirect script must have been placed on Bog’s Blog when the site was hacked some time ago.

I’m afraid there’s nothing I know of that you can do to get around this, I think it would have to be changed by whoever can get rid of this code from the Blog.

@H.Avenger

I might be able to help.  After just a brief period of time working with the Swarm it rapidly became apparent that BUGS/Swarm NEEDED better tools.  So I decided to focus on improving the one area that wasn’t getting a lot attention at the time, the Swarm.   I’ve built what I hope will be the next step in the Swarm’s evolution, a site focused on the day-to-day posting and sharing of URLs.   The following URL is the first (and I hope not last) iteration of this work.

http://beta.swarmsofbugs.com

Anyone interested to taking the site for a spin and help me beta test it, please sign-up and give it a workout. Hopefully in a short time, I’ll be able to roll this out for full-time Swarm’n.

Also, please note the site is currently filled with dummy data auto-generated to help me during development, nearly all of the links are deadlinks.

Thanks to all you guys working on the site! And PLEASE, end up with something that’s easy to use, and flexible! Don’t lock us into something we may want to change, like whether or not we have our working thread visible to everyone. Matters like that should be policy decisions, not technical decisions, and policy can change with changing circumstances.

I found the previous format here to be easy to use, for the uses that were allowed…the only thing really missing for me was a personal message system that was sensible, and not having posts on the working thread sometimes partially unreadable because they overlapped the right margin.

But all the guys using phones need to have easy access too if possible.

@guanchito

Those links were auto-generated by a script I wrote to populate the database the frontend pulls from. The links are designed to look like real links but they aren’t.   And yes, all the data on the site is stored in a SQL database.

What your seeing is a baseline feature set.  I haven’t done anything specific yet beyond the basic functionality because I wanted to focus on the foundation of the site first and then solicit input from BUGSers so I could tailor the site to the needs of the Swarm.

@BUGSers

So feedback please, any  suggestions, desired features, etc will be taken seriously.  You can use the “Contact” link on the bottom of site if you want to directly communicate with me.

For those interested, swarmsofbugs.com is entirely my creation and up until a week ago I don’t believe anybody beside myself was aware of it’s existence.  It’s personal project I started in June and hoped would greatly increase the productivity of the Swarm.  For those interesting in getting to know me better, please use the contact link on the bottom of the site (beta.swarmsofbugs.com) or email: admin_at_swarmsofbugs.com -or- seapea_at_seapea.net.

@elcyCesreveR

I appreciate your scepticism but if any person’s PC/mobile/etc was to get compromised due to a visit to beta.swarmsofbugs.com,  it would be due to my incompetency to keep the site secure and not to any malicious intent on my part.  This project is sincerely the best way I believe I could contribute to BUGS.

Trust but verify.

Well this seapea person has already developed a new layout.

I am not sure if the swarm needs a new domain or host however.   I would prefer to see seapeas PHP/MySQL migrated over to this site,  for security reasons.  I appreciate the work SeaPea has put in, and I would like to see the work put to use.   However, migrating over to a completely new domain & server that are under the complete control of someone that nobody here knows at all……..is risk that is way too high for me to go along with.

swarmsofbugs.com is not intended to be a replacement of whitakeronline.org, just supplement it.  Having a tool dedicated to the day-to-day posting and sharing of links was my primary purpose when building the site.  As a person with an IT (Information Technology) background, I have the skills to build and maintain websites.  IN MY MIND, it was only natural that I do something with my skills to help improve the environment that BUGSers operate in.

For those worried about who and what I am, come September anyone attending the Stormfront Practical Politics Seminar will get a chance to meet me and see for themselves if am for real or not.  In the meantime, I can be contacted at seapea_at_seapea.net or hit the “contact” link on beta.swarmsofbugs.com.

As a side note,  swarmsofbugs.com doesn’t use PHP or MySQL.

@Jason

Is that question directed toward me?  Is so and you’re referring to the YAP section of beta.swarmsofbugs.com, it’s currently set up just like any other site you post comments to.  The comments are saved in a database and can be kept around for as little or as long as the admin(s) are willing to keep them around.  The posts/comments don’t have to be kept around, they can be purged after a period of time.   Actually, scheduling purges makes maintaining the site much easier since one isn’t burden with huge datasets.