Entries from September 2009 ↓

I have a forum that can be used to discuss Niteflirt issues.

http://help4flirts.com/members

They’ve got a beta site up, http://beta.niteflirt.com which apparently can be used to take calls, but they are giving mixed messages on whether it is safe to take calls and consider the payment secure. Most of the “advice” on this is being given in the new forum, http://forum.niteflirt.com (gotta be a flirt to access this forum), where the overwhelming majority of advice is given by flirts with no understanding of this sort of situation and no inside track on what is going on, and posts after the original one come up in some weird reverse order that makes it sometimes impossible to understand what is being discussed.

If you’re a Niteflirt customer, saw a “We’ll be right back!” page when you tried to access the site but have been wondering when the site will be back, the real answer is, “No one knows, they say they’re working on it”. Flirts are giving out contact information on their sites or in twitter (all my followers are flirts, so I’m not giving out info there). All of my sites have a contact or email me link on them, including this one, so if anybody needs me they can email me to find out how to speak with me.

If you’re a Niteflirt customer who’s been getting a “Bad request 400″ or “The connection was reset by the server” or “Server not found” page for days, it means that Firefox cannot view a simple HTML page due to the type of cookies the site has chosen to use. They’ve known about this problem for days, and the fact that they have not fixed it is telling me that they aren’t intending to. Damn. My desktop only uses Firefox.

It is, what? Right now they are 24 hours past the loose deadline they gave us for coming back online. I understand that it’s hard to accurately predict these things, and I’m willing to cut them some slack, since they said that the site would be basically restored, except for some features that we use a lot, but which are not essential from the customer’s standpoint.

But should we believe that part? What if the site comes back and we all have to completely recreate everything we did before? With different restrictions and the pages are all different? Not getting a warm fuzzy feeling on this…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Niteflirt’s website was due to come down shortly for a major upgrade, and it has been down now since 9:30 pm ET last night. They told us the site would be down for 8-12 hours. Now they are saying it will be down until tomorrow morning @6:00 am. I’ll believe it when I see it.

No hard feelings against Niteflirt on this one, so long as it actually does come back up. The kind of upgrade they are doing (complete replacement of the platform with minimal difference visible to customers) is more complicated than hardly anyone could imagine.

We will be without customer lists for a month, and featured listings will be gone for a long time. Placement will be based on LVS alone.

Those of us in the forums were unable to convince the powers that be to notify the general flirt population in advance.

I have a forum where I have created a Niteflirt transition board to discuss this in, if anybody wants to post about the issue.

Niteflirt Customer Service is tweeting at http://twitter.com/NiteFlirtCS

Problem: You go to log into an account, and you get an error message saying the account does not belong to you.

Solution: This means your browser is still hanging onto cookies from the last time you were logged into another account using the same browser. When your session expires and sends you to the login window, it does not mean you are necessarily logged out. Sometimes you cannot log in to a different account without logging out properly. Log out again using the Log Out link and it should work.

Problem: Buttons which were apparently working before now give a “no longer exists” message to a customer who clicks them.

Solution: If a customer clicks a button and gets the message it no longer exists, go to your Payment Mail Buttons page and click the Edit button for that button. Then just resubmit it as though you had edited it. They always seem to work again at that point. You can test your buttons by clicking them from one of your other accounts.

I don’t think there are any customers reading this, but if you are a customer, upcoming changes in Niteflirt are being designed to be invisible to you, so I wouldn’t worry about it. You can still call your favorites, and the category indexes should work exactly the same way.

This is for flirts who have not been reading the flirt forum. Niteflirt is going to be upgrading their code, in order to give us a new platform – eventually. They are going to be integrating it in stages. For flirts, some features will be missing for months. In the end, we will probably have more features. But meanwhile, I suggest every flirt go to the Niteflirt forum and read about it, ASAP.