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Database Purging Completed!

Chris — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:02:37 +0000

Sorry that it took so long to sort out, but we had problems with some new coding!!

We Just wanted to let you all know, that the database purging has now been completed and our hosts and hostee database has been cleaned out!

We were going to add the ability to add your facebook and twitter usernames to your listings as a point of contact, but sadly this didn’t go too well as planned. Because of the length of time it took to try and sort this out, we have reverted Pick-Me to the old site coding so that we could open the listings once again for you to signup. We will still be working on modifying our coding offsite.

We’ve also made some changes to the way that you update your listing. As before, we e-mail you a unique password which you use with the e-mail address that you have signed up with to login to the change listing page. This page now has a DELETE button at the bottom of the edit listing page which will delete our listing from the database. We urge you to take advantage of this delete button when you have found a host or hostee. This has been added to help us keep Pick-Me.net up to date as possible by enabling our users to delete their listing without any fuss.

We hope that we’ll be seeing you once again on Pick-Me and we look forward to seeing your listing pop up on our database.

DISCUSS THIS ON OUR MESSAGE BOARDS AT:
http://mb.pick-me.net/showthread.php?p=399#post399

Pick-Me Survey – WIN $20!

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:13:26 +0000

We’re planning on making some major changes to Pick-Me soon, but before we go ahead and change anything we’d like to grab your opinions on your Pick-Me experience. If you could take the time to answer a few questions in our survey, we’d much appreciate it and to thank you for your time, we are giving two lucky people a chance to win a $20 iTunes or Amazon.com gift voucher! The Gift Voucher giveaway ends on Friday 31 July, and the usual terms and conditions apply.

http://www.pick-me.net/survey

Pick-Me Awakens..

Chris — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:55:28 +0000

I can’t remember exactly how long ago it was that I first opened Hostee.net. I can tell you that I registered the domain on 24 June 2006. I’ve just looked through my emails and I can announce that Hostee.net was opened on the evening of 22 April 2007!!

I can remember when I first released the site to the public that I had the grand job of adding all the information submitted by my visitors to the pages manually; it wasn’t until the 18 June 2007 when Hostee.net went automatic!! The days of having to input entries manually were gone and I could just sit back and watch the site grow.

But now, Hostee.net has turned a new corner, into a new era with the acquirement of Pick-Me.net.
For those of you who remember Pick-Me in the olden days, it was run by Dru and Shadow – two great people and I have to thank them for giving me the inspiration to start Hostee.net.

When the original Pick-Me went down just before Christmas 2005 with a famous “Website Suspended” screen we all thought the worse, however Dru and Shadow were still out where when finally early 2006 this message appeared:

I’d previously bought the domain Hostee.net with the intention of creating my own Pick-Me site – there was a blank space and someone had to come to the rescue to make a site where hosts and hostees could get together to find one another.

And so; as mentioned Hostee.net was released on 22 April 2007.

With Pick-Me still down by the time Hostee.net opened, I really wanted to try and gain ownership of the Pick-Me domain, after attempting to contact the registered owner without any luck I had to wait to see if the domain would get renewed, thankfully it wasn’t and on 12 April 2008 my backorder attempts were successful and I was now the proud owner of pick-me.net.

Obviously, things took its time to get everything swapped over to the new domain – Pick-Me.net but the main thing on my mind was to iron out a few of the bugs within the existing hostee.net coding – I managed to do this with help from Heather and Nadiyya and I thank them for their help in the past few months.

Testing done, everything installed, we’re ready to go..

Ladies and Gentlemen…
Welcome to Pick-Me.net – The new generation of Hostee.net