June 12th, 2010
We realise that a lot of the hosts or hostee listings are probably out of date, so we’ve been thinking long and hard about clearing Pick-Me/Hostee.net over the past few months.
We thought we could e-mail all users and get them to reply to keep their listing on the website, but this would mean a lot of administration work for us to flag accounts as active, a feature which we don’t have.
Unfortunately, we’ve come up with the best solution to our troubles, why unfortunately? this is because we have decided to delete EVERYONE from the hosts/hostee databases, to effectively start over from scratch.
We know that this might be of inconvenience to our newer users who has just signed up with Pick-Me, but in order to refresh the database to clean out the inactive users, this is the only solution that will work the most effectively.
When will we be purging the database, is unknown as yet, however all registered users will be informed of our ideal date before we purge the database so that they have time to copy any information from their listing if they require. We’ll also be informing all users once the database has been purged that they are welcome to re-signup if they wish to.
We do apologise for making this decision, but as part of keeping our listings up-to-date this is something that we may think of doing on a yearly basis, however, having said that, we are working on a solution to whereby users can delete their listings manually.
More details will be available in the coming days.
YOU CAN DISCUSS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AT OUR FORUMS
ttp://mb.pick-me.net/showthread.php?t=195
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January 3rd, 2010
We’ve decided to revitalize one of many of the features of the original Pick-Me, those who have known Pick-Me in the past will know that Pick-Me used to have an comprehensive layouts section whereby Pick-Me users could download website layouts to help them get their website online. This feature of Pick-Me was especially of helpful use to new starters, as it gave them a foundation to start designing their website on.
If you are an avid designer and have some old website layouts that are surplus to requirements, or if you have some free time on your hands and would like to donate a few layouts, we’d much appreciate it!
We’re looking for any sort of layouts, ranging from iframes, div layouts, table layouts to wordpress themes or any other blogging/CMS platform you can think of.
In return to anyone donating layouts to the new Pick-Me Layouts section, we will add your name and website to a list of contributors which will shortly be added to the Pick-Me layouts section once everything is up and running.
Remember, that this is also a chance for you to advertise your work and your website within your layouts, as there is the potential that your layout could be chosen to be downloaded by anyone worldwide!
For further details, please visit 
www.pick-me.net/layouts
If you’d like to contact us directly about this, or anything else you’d like to mention to us, you can contact us by going to www.pick-me.net/contact.php
We look forward to seeing your layouts!
Tags: blog, designer, donate, download, hostee, layouts, pick-me, template, wordpress
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January 1st, 2010
Hello there & Happy New Year from the Pick-Me team. As most people usually start a new year from anew, we thought we’d do the same thing, but we thought we’d see what YOU, our visitors thought to our plans.
We were thinking of deleting both HOSTS and HOSTEE listings from the database and allow you to sign up again if you are still either looking for hosting or offering hosting, as we think that most of our listings on Pick-Me are outdated and irrelevant.
Because deleting everything from the database has a HUGE impact on our website, we wanted to see what you think we should do.
We’ve thought of a fewoptions we could take:
To delete all listing HOSTS and HOSTEES
To delete HOSTS listings
to delete HOSTEE listings
Mass email all HOSTS and HOSTEES listed on the database asking if they want to stay listed. Any who has not replied within a certain timeframe will be deleted and notified of this.
You can have your say in our online poll at http://pick-me.net/poll/
Hurry though, the online poll closes at 00:00 on January 10 2010 !
Tags: deleting, happynewyear, haveyoursay, hostees, hosts, listings, new start, poll
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