Anyone having login problems should avoid using the login link at the top right of the site next to info. Using that link always takes you to the secure server where the problem lies. If you log in from the main page using the fields in the section above announcements, you will usually (but not [...]
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Model Mayhem recently introduced VIP badges which appears under the member’s avatar in the forum. But I noticed a few badges were missing so I made a few more for users who may have felt left out. Get your unofficial Model Mayhem badges [...] Anyone who visits websites regularly has had moments when they wished certain elements of the site were laid out differently. Sometimes it’s as simple as too many nested links to get to an often used feature or it might be misplaced elements that make the page difficult to read and navigate. For Firefox users, one [...] So many Model Mayhem members are well aware that the site has experienced downtime last week due to a distributed denial of service attack. Lots of paying VIP and premium members were up in arms about the downtime and screaming for some kind of remedy in the form of a credit or refund. Let me first say that I am not a paying member so I don’t really care what they do for the paying members. Even if I was a paying member, I couldn’t care less about a credit for the few hours of down time and the week of spotty performance. A monthly VIP membership is $10 so a week is just $2.50. You can’t even buy an average drink in Starbucks for that amount. But people want some kind of appeasement so Model Mayhem had to pacify [...] Model Mayhem is now on day three of outage. The first day was mostly slow performance and 504 gateway errors. The site has been completely offline the last 24 hours. So what lessons can be gleamed from this latest incident? No websites can be immune from outages. This latest outage appears to be a result of a denial of service attack against many Internet Brands websites hosted in El Segundo, CA. The first reports of problems were posted at 9 am November 12, 2009. The site continued to operate intermittently throughout the day. Many forum posts were started asking what was happening but there were no official word from Model Mayhem [...] On November 12 Model Mayhem, along with many other sites owned by Internet Brands, experiences sluggish performance. The problem seems to be with the network infrastructure used by Internet Brands as the performance problems are not limited to Model Mayhem. As of early morning November 13, most of the sites operated by Internet Brands are completely [...] A Model Mayhem member brought up an interesting concept the other day in this thread. He was inquiring about the benefits of building “bridges” between competing modeling/photography networking sites to facilitate such functions as contest, events, mentoring, etc. This brings up an interesting concept. Although that thread focused primarily on event driven functions, I want to expand the discussion to something much [...] I occasionally see modeling site forum posts from photographers who object to models using tiered rates for lingerie or nudes vs clothed shoots. Some refer to these as stripper rates as a means to disparage models who do this. The rationale given is that nude modeling requires no more effort than clothed modeling so it should be the same. Well a picture for a flyer cost no more to produced than the exact same picture used for a product label but most smart photographers will price the product shot much higher. Same effort, different [...] After his last stunt, I’m shocked that Model Mayhem would even allow M.Hana to remain a moderator. Sure they gave him a long timeout and it seems he has served his time and back in the forums posting nonsense again. Lately, he’s been in the newbie section telling newbies that he’s new too despite being on Model Mayhem since 2005. [...] The current color palette of Model Mayhem is your basic black text on a white screen. I find it uncomfortable to look at for long durations. I prefer a dark gray palette with light gray text and I find images are more pleasing when viewed with a gray background. For Firefox users, this is easily accomplished [...] |
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