Please do not feed the trolls.
Unfortunately, I had to kill the collapse-a-subthread-with-the-click-of-a-bullet feature on the beta site. It was causing some compatibility problems as well as some performance issues. Oh well, I was never really happy with it to begin with. Read more »
Purple stars are for…
marking new posts and replies since your last refresh.
That is all.
Take a deep breath…
We’ve been experimenting over the past few weeks with a number of improvements to the site, and we’d like to invite everyone to preview it at http://www.youbemom.com/beta/. Now I know some of you are going to freak when I tell you Read more »
Houston, we have a problem.
So really, there’s good news, and there’s bad news. First the good news. YBM is doing well and continues to attract new visitors to partake in our scintillating daily conversations about life, love and the pursuit of America’s Next Top Model. I know Read more »
A brief update.
Thanks to everyone for participating in our poll and providing some great feedback on the site. There were quite a few interesting suggestions in the comments, as well as on the feedback board, and I’ll be experimenting with a number of them Read more »
Beta is coming to a close.
While there are still a handful of kinks that need to get resolved, the YouBeMom message board seems to have stabilized to the point where we can finally take the site out of beta. This means that while we’ll continue to incorporate feedback Read more »
Privacy and ethics.
I can count on one hand the number of times we’ve had to go through the ybm database to figure out a user’s background or posting history. It’s pretty much been limited to a handful of instances where a user was Read more »
Purple goddess, who are you?
Many of our users have asked about who exactly is behind YBM. Most just express a passing curiosity. Others wonder (sometimes out loud) if this is all an elaborate plan to capture their pet peeves, lunch choices, hollywood crushes, and American Idol Read more »
Repeat after me.
Thanks to everyone who voted and left comments on the issue of moderation. It looks like there are a few things we can do with repeaters and spammers before we need to explore a full-on moderation policy. I added a fix to prevent Read more »