Punky Moms

November’s prize is a Punky Tote and some swag. Wanna enter? Just comment on this blog entry, making sure you leave your email address so someone can reach you for your mailing address to mail your prize! We’ll pick a winner at the end of the month.

ETA: We do have a spam blocker in place and we do have to approve your comment if it’s the first one you’ve left with us. If you have previously had a comment approved, then your comment will show up automatically!

Well, we’ve had a fun week! Punky Moms has been upgraded and improved throughout. Our forums have been upgraded and made more secure, we’ve added sodoku, upgraded the battle RPG, and made other fun little changes. For a full list, please click on the “read more” link.

The Free Preview is over, so if you want to keep your access to the entire board you need to purchase a subscription through the “My Controls” page.

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Some of you may have noticed some difficulty getting into the site last night. Our server load was going bonkers, so we’ve adjusted some settings to get it under control for the time being.

In addition to those changes, we’ll be upgrading the board in a few days. The upgrade itself will only take a few hours.

Due to the time constraints I have, adjusting all our extras will take 5 - 7 days in top of that. I just don’t have the time to sit and do it in one marathon session.

Because of this, all of our boards except the post count protected ones will be made public for those 5 - 7 days, during which time we/I will be resetting our subscription perks and making some other changes.

Post protected boards will simply be closed during that time. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes, however, it is the best solution we can come up with short-term.

I am going to start the upgrade sometime between tonight and tomorrow night, so if you find the board temporarily closed or inaccessible, that is probably the reason.

Directly from Immature Couture:

I am offering FREE shipping on these three items through The Alt Bazaar! So login to www. altbazaar. com and check out my shop to take advantage of this deal that is exclusively offered here!

These are perfect to get into the Halloween Spirit! Thanks for looking! Click the “more” tag for photos!

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As you know, we’re still finding out feet here over at The Alt Bazaar. Thank you for bearing with us while we do so!

Yesterday I had a tiny quirk come up with how some of our settings were, well, set. Up until now you had to pay for your transaction when you made it (so you were paying site fees at the time of listing, etc..). This morning we’re switched over to “account mode” which operates more like eBay where you run a tab for the month and pay at the end.

Right now we have a 20$USD limit for your tab, but we are willing to raise it if the low limit causes problems. The minimum invoice value is 5$USD, so you don’t have to pay your tab until it is at least 5$. Good deal!

If anyone has any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. If I can’t answer right away, I’ll ask someone who can.

Thanks for supporting Punky Moms and The Alt Bazaar! Don’t forget to advertise your shop or your auctions, and don’t forget to list away! We can’t grow without you.

We are currently offering a 1$USD site credit for new signups! That’s half a small shop!

Jenn
http://AltBazaar.com
http://PunkyMoms.com

Punky Moms October 2008 News

Click Me and Read Me Now!

Highlights include the shortest editors note ever, Punky Moms new digital home, minor updates, where to fine the new help center and more!

We had some server d-r-a-m-a yesterday, but seeing as I am the e-llama-nator, it’s all gone now! We’ve got a shiny new host, check them out at http://zenex5ive.com/. I’m not saying yah, go use them or anything, but for our needs, they seem a perfect fit. Not only that, but they did a free migration, set up the DNS entries, and just made my evening/morning about as stress free as possible considering we had to move several gig worth of information.

In celebration, for one weekend Only we are offering free username changes. That is from today,  10/3, through Sunday, 10/5. Normally we charge 2.50$ for a name change and make you re-intro. This weekend only we are letting you change your display name.

What exactly can you change? Your display name only. This will not change your log in name. Your log in name will remain whatever it it now. This will let you change your display name, the name we all see tacked on to your posts.

It can be 26 letters/numbers or less.

You cannot choose a display name that is already in use as a log in or display name. It will automatically tell you if it is or not. This means you can’t choose “azxure” or any variation of it (aZxUrE or something silly like that).

Display names may only be AlphaNumeric, no extra characters

If you opt to change your display name, please put your old name in your signature as well as posting a quick re-intro in the intro board so we know who has and who hasn’t changed their name.

You can only change it once. As soon as you change it and click save, you will not be able to change it again.

This offer only applies to active free & paid users. It does not apply to guest, validating, or banned members.

But Jenn, I don’t know where to go to change my display name. Well, good thing you asked! Click on “My Controls” at the top of the page. Then on the left side and down a bit, click on “Change Display Name”

The page that loads will say something like this:

You have made 0 of 1 display name changes since 3rd September 2008 - 04:12 PM.
You are permitted to make 1 changes in a 365 day period. (this will change back to zero after this weekend)

Changing your display name will not affect your log in username.
Enter a new display name
This is the display name you wish to now use.
Characters not permitted: [ ] | , ; $
The name can only contain these characters: a-zA-Z0-9
Max Characters: 26

Enter your current password
This is to ensure security on your account

Give the page a moment or two after you typed in the display name you wish to use so it can go through the database and make sure it is not already in use. It will give you a warning in a red box if it is already in use.