What happened to me blogging? by JohnBaku

I still blog, alot, but I am eating my own dog food and blogging directly from within FetLife and not blogging from here anymore.

If you are not a member of FetLife then you should become one and if you are then follow my writing/blog from my profile or add me as a friend of yours and you will get all my writing on in your mini-feed.

See everyone in FetLife!

Reviews & Mentions of FetLife On Other Blogs by JohnBaku

Some recent review and mentions of FetLife on other blogs:

UPDATES: Some Small Updates For You Folks by JohnBaku

Believe it or not, a lot of satisfaction is to be had, at least for me, in the small updates as much as the big ones. Refining a product is a big part of pushing it forward that most people ignore.

So here are some of the small updates that I pushed live over the last couple of days:

  • Now, if you look at a profile that is not your own and the person does not have any friends the “My Kinky Friends” header does not appear.
  • “Browse” in the global navigation has been renamed to “Kinksters”. lildevil complained to me about this one a couple weeks ago and finally understood where she was coming from a couple days ago. I think kinksters makes much more sense. Now it is more obvious what you will find when you click on the link.
  • Added the first version of Terms & Conditions and a copyright to the bottom of every page thanks to the prodding of MasterKinkyDaddy of www.dungeondezigns.com.
  • Added some new fetishes to the tag cloud Fetish page thanks to the prodding of a couple users. From Petplay to Caning to Posture Collars to Smoking to many more… we are now over 140 different fetishes.
  • Also fixed some small display problems…

Today is another day and will hopefully get a couple more fixes out…

We Reached The 100+ Kinksters Milestone by JohnBaku

In just about three weeks we have reached the 100+ Kinksters registered to FetLife mark. With just under 50 kinksters signing up in the last 48 hours alone!

We could of not gotten these numbers if it was not for the support of our members. Our members have really been spreading the word of FetLife like rage weed. I would love to mention names but once I start mentioning names I have no clue when to stop and I am always afraid to forget someone. So if you have told at least one person about FetLife then I thank you very very much! :-)

I am a huge stats geek so here is a couple of stats:

  • 117 users have signed up so far (37 Women, 79 Men)
  • These 117 users span 10+1 countries (Canada, United States, Netherlands, Malaysia, France, Australia, Lebanon, Austria, United Kingdom, United States Minor Outlying Islands(?), Norway)
  • 106 pictures have been uploaded
  • 183 Conversations have been started
  • 22 new fetishes have been added for a total of 127 different fetishes
  • 41 friendships have been forged

All these numbers and the great feedback I have been getting from the new members are driving me to get back into development mode so I can push some more fixes and features out the door.

Thanks again everyone and if you have any feedback on how I can improve the site please don’t hesitate to write them in the comments section or contact me directly on FetLife. Peace out! :-)

UPDATES: Be Able To Write About Yourself & A Mini-Feed With Everyones Updates by JohnBaku

One feature was a request that I am still not so sure about and the other was my sub-conscious’. :-)

The one I am not so sure about (i.e. not so comfortable about) is being able to write about yourself on your profile. I am not sure it is necessary… I prefer to watch what people are doing on the site instead of reading their about information which ends up getting stail really quickly. But since we are experimenting right now we will see how it goes :-p.

The feature I find myself using a lot already… only after deploying it 30 minutes ago… is the ability to switch between seeing what your friends have been up to on the site and what everyone has been up to. Before you could only see your friends! :-)

Tell me what you guys think!

UPDATES: You Can Now Upload More Then One Picture To Your Profile & Fixed Mini-Feed by JohnBaku

Two quick updates from yesterday, if you login to your profile you can now upload as many pictures as you want to your profile and you can easily change between which of your pictures you want to use are your profile pic.

Also, I fixed a bug that decided to show it’s ugly head just recently. When I have been logging in recently it looked like nobody was doing anything on the site for a couple days and I was like no… come on… that is impossible. I finally realized that the logic in my algorithm for displaying each users mini-feed was broken was not taking the last 30 things their friends were doing on the site but the first 30 things. Which makes no sense, hence I fixed it! :-)

FetLife.com Launches - The First Social Network For Kinksters by JohnBaku

We talked a lot about FriendsWithFetishes 2.0 launching soon but at the last minute we decided to leave FriendsWithFetishes intact and launch what we were working on as a seperate site. That seperate site being FetLife.com.

FetLife is the a social network like Facebook and mySpace but specifically made for the fetish and alternative lifestyle communities. It is not another paid dating site where you can’t do anything unless you are a paid member. FetLife is free as in Facebook and mySpace free. No scams, not tricks, we built the site for us and we are cheap bastards so if we wouldn’t pay how can we expect anyone else too :-).

Check out FetLife.com and tell us what you think.

We are constantly looking for feedback so don’t hesitate to either submit it here in the comments section or email me directly at johnbaku [at] sexualdeviants20 [dot] com.