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August 5th, 2011 — html help, Niteflirt issues
Note: I wrote this before it became clear what had happened, and now have edited it to reflect that.
Niteflirt has installed a new HTML code screener on the site. What it does is look at your code, find errors, decide what to do, and do it.
Unfortunately the net effect is to turn it all into garbage if you have code errors or what is now considered to be “code errors”.
What is a “code error”? Using any tag that is not on the new approved list, which means that many common tags and attributes are no longer permitted.
If you’re reading this, before you hit “submit”, copy your code into a text editor like Notepad. If Niteflirt has turned your listing into garbage, you will at least have a copy of it to work from.
Things to make sure your code has:
Make sure each tag is closed. All tags start with a ‘<’ and end with a ‘>’. Leaving out the end brackets will do nasty things to your code. Adding stuff into your tags that don’t belong there will break stuff.
Using separate font tags for different font attributes will result in all of them being closed and made useless. Don’t do this:
<font face=”arial”><font color=”red”><font size=”2″>
Do this:
<font face=”arial” color=”red” size=”2″>
Don’t use extra <body>, </body>, <html>, </html> tags anywhere in your listing code. The only <body> tag you should use is if you are using HTML to set the background.
Just because your code was working before doesn’t mean there was no problem with it. Browsers let you get away with all sorts of mistakes. Unfortunately girls have been lucky for a long time. It’s time to start learning to read and write good code, unfortunately.
The new restrictions mean that in some ways code will be more limited than previously. Most designs will have to be redone. Some things are no longer possible at all.
I set up a listing that displays the permitted tags. Many of them are totally useless unless you’re writing an article about computer code. The number of useful tags and attributes is much smaller than the list we have been given.
I also made a div listing template, for those of you who wish to look at some formatting that works.
And there’s always the list of approved tags and attributes to look at.
June 4th, 2010 — Forums, Niteflirt issues
It’s a lot easier for people who are reading your post when you quote the post. But it gets confusing if you just copy it and paste it in, as it seems like it’s part of what you wrote.
When you want to quote a post in a forum, look for a “quote” button or link at the top or bottom of the post you want to quote from. Click it. When the post appears, it will have the entire post you are quoting in it.
Like this one:
(Nothing will happen when you click the button.)
Then you can delete everything but what you are replying to.
May 30th, 2010 — Niteflirt issues
First of all, “LVS” stands for Listing Value Score. It is a system that was designed to rank the value of a listing in order to determine its relative worth to Niteflirt. It was used for two purposes: to determine the order in which listings should appear, based on that perceived value, and to set a relative price that individuals should pay to feature.
Niteflirt created pages for us to help us understand our LVS. They never told us what our “scores” were. The blue boxes (on a scale of 1 to 10) were never meant to give either accuracy or precision to our understanding. There were many factors they used, and we were never told what all of them were or how they interacted.
Prior to the LVS, everyone paid the same to feature for a position, and “featured listings” were in a separate section on top of listings that were not bidding to feature, which were ranked by points. And prior to that, all listings were ranked by points earned, so the 6 girls with the greatest number of points were always on the front page.
Back then there were plenty of guys scouring the indexes looking for new girls, so not having any points did not mean you were not going to get any calls.
Now that is impossible. One of the unintended consequences of LVS featuring is that one of the few avenues for a flirt’s increasing her business has been increasing the number of accounts she runs. From the implementation of the lvs up until the transition, the number of listings on the system maybe doubled. But now there are hundreds of thousands of new listings. Really.
One problem with the LVS is that when the decision was made what to reward (ie, getting clicks and calls directly from the indexes), it was also being decided that other types of business were of no value to Niteflirt. So girls who attracted calls through their websites got no credit. We still get no credit for signing up new customers, and Niteflirt directs them to the front page to prevent the flirt who attracted them from getting the call they signed up in order to make. There is no commission Niteflirt has to pay for doing that. Flirts pay money to give traffic to Niteflirt in exchange for absolutely nothing. Why should they ever change it?
You got no credit for mail purchases unless the customer was already a customer whose first transaction with you was a qualifying transaction. And there were lots of times you’d be paying for clicks that were entirely unfair. We were paying for clicks to blocked customers, who were never going to call. A $1 click a day from a blocked customer is going to cost a girl $365 a year. For 1000 accounts, that would be $372K a year of essentially unearned income for Niteflirt. Is it any wonder they refused to stop that?
After the transition, the LVS that was current about a week prior became the standard listing sort for months. Girls who had been consistently high earners were there, as well as girls who just plain got lucky.
After a while, they started to implement changes. What we have now, imperfect as it is, has been in effect since early this year. They keep making changes to it, but the fact that there is an LVS in effect is not new this week or month.
A lot of girls are so eager to get featuring based on LVS scores back that they are willing to pay for lots of clicks that don’t lead to calls. There is nothing in the implementation of that feature that is going to fix anything that is broken on the site. Niteflirt recognizes that girls are willing to throw money away and it is working mightily to provide that service.
The LVS we have is not the same as it was before the transition. Prior to that, listings in an account were linked together. A big purchase on one would pull up the rest of the account. Now they are not. Only the listings that earned a lot of money will show high on the indexes.
Featuring will be based on the LVS we have now. Giving flirts the ability to feature will not revert anything to what it was before the transition. There are probably 5 times as many accounts active as there when we last had the ability to bid. That’s 5 times as many girls desperate to get calls. You do the numbers.
It’s just a matter of supply and demand. Calls coming into the site are fixed. The demand for those calls is ever-increasing.
March 9th, 2010 — html help, Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks
Many girls are now using Photohostess to host their images for Niteflirt. Unfortunately, although photohostess is intended to host photos for girls on Niteflirt and provide them with links to use, it does not provide you with Niteflirt-safe image code or the information you need to fix the links to make them work but keep them from getting your listing suspended.
In my last entry I gave instructions on how to clean up Photohostess links by editing them. That is no longer necessary. I have created a page that you can enter your image url, which will give you a working image link to copy.
There is also a second form which will generate a working link. So you can use it to create HTML code for payment mail buttons, image links to your blog, or whatever you want.
There is a third form you can use to create text links.
You must enter naked links with no tags. There should be no spaces in your links. If you miscopy, it will create HTML code for you that just won’t work. If you are making payment mail buttons, copy the plain HTML link from the window that comes up after you create or edit your payment mail button, not the popup that links from the payment mail index and provides you with a gray payment mail button code.
These are standard links. They will work with any text or image anywhere you need an HTML image or link code on the web. They will not modify your image size for you.
Photohostess link generator
March 8th, 2010 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks
Photohostess is a photo hosting site intended for use with Niteflirt. The site requires photos uploaded to meet Niteflirt photo requirements. Therefore, it is rather odd that of all the links they give you to use your photos, none of them is Niteflirt-safe and ready. (Click to enlarge the image if it appears small to you.)
You have a choice here, but either way you have to do some editing.
You can take the hotlink for websites code, and remove the link (shown in red):
<a href="http://photohostess.com/etc…"><img src=”http://photohostess.com/etc…></a>
Or you can take the direct link and turn it into an image link by adding the parts in green here:
<img src="http://photohostess.com/etc…">
Also see How to host an image on Niteflirt.
November 19th, 2009 — Niteflirt issues
First, you need to understand the difference between profile thumbnails and photos within the listing. If you are getting a message that the filesize, picture size, or filetype is wrong, then you are talking about the thumbnails that link from the category indexes to your listing.
You upload a profile thumbnail through the link at the bottom of your listing edit window that has a little box where your picture will be displayed when you get it uploaded.
IE simply doesn’t work for most girls.
Some girls have problems with different browsers. I was able to do this with Firefox, Opera, and K-Meleon. Other girls have found that only Google Chrome will do it. Try downloading that.
The regular photo uploader has not been installed yet since the transition. We do not have an eta on that. You will have to find an image host to upload them to. Some people use photohostess, which does not have private accounts. Some girls complain about downtime.
Most photo hosts are not adult-friendly. They will delete your account and you will lose your pictures in a heartbeat.
I think there are adult-friendly paid photo hosts.
If you do find some kind of photo hosting situation, better back up your photos. Who knows what could happen to your account? The site could shut down leaving you with no photos and no options.
Consider buying a domain and a regular hosting account. It is actually really straightforward to create a directory to host your own pics, videos, recordings, or whatever once you get the hang of it. You can also host your own blog or website.
I have dreamhost and I am satisfied with the service they give me. Email me if you want a discount code for them.
Standard HTML image code is:
<img src=”http://imageurl”>
Background image code:
<body background=”http://imageurl”>
which you would put at the very top of your listing edit window.
November 17th, 2009 — Niteflirt issues
There’s been quite a discussion in the forums about the way individual listing availability control should be designed by Niteflirt, and I won’t get into that here. There still seems to be a lot of confusion about how it currently works, and that’s what I would like to clear up.
If you’re still trying to use the listing availability links as before and it’s not working for you, you are fighting the new system. If you are finding it does all kinds of unpredictable things, that’s because they changed it without notifying us or changing the help file. It operates in a completely different manner. It works, but it’s like a new feature which is not equivalent to the old feature it replaced.
The old system was designed to permit someone to change the status of one listing. Either from within your listing or from inside your Listing Details page you could click on the availability status of that one listing, go to another window, and change it. If you only wanted one odd listing on or off on an occasional basis, it worked great with that.
So, things the old system was good at:
- Turning on only one listing;
- Turning off only one listing.
Things it was not so good at:
- Managing multiple listings, rather than just one with a different status – could take a while to change all the ones that needed changing;
- Managing listings in multiple accounts – could take a whole lot of time.
What it couldn’t do at all:
- Save your chosen settings for next time. They were gone every time you changed your account status.
Listing availability is now focused on managing multiple listings and saving your settings, rather than having one listing different from the others.
Changing the availability of a listing within the listing itself or inside your Listing Details page now is changing the preset on it. Listings that are set to Away on the Listing Details page will not go on when the account is turned on. Listings that are set to Available on the Listing Details page will turn on when your account is turned on.
There is no need to make your listings show as Away on the Listing Details page when your master Availability is set to Away.
The settings will stay with your account until the next time you go in there and change them.
October 13th, 2009 — customer from hell, Design considerations, Niteflirt issues, Phonesex drama
Much time has passed since we first met, online as it were.
It was as “ON” I first met her. She wanted the background removed from an image. I felt sorry for her, as she described her health issues. We had a couple of long calls. She described to me how a designer had taken $2K and failed to deliver the website she was supposed to get, leaving her with purchased software (photoshop, dreamweaver, paintshop pro) that she found unusable.
She felt designers deliberately talked down to her by speaking in incomprehensible jargon rather than everyday language she could understand. She did not see any value in trying to learn what the terms they were using meant.
I charged her a few dollars and gave her the image in several sizes. She came back and wanted support to install it on her listings in a payment mail button. I gave her the code to do that, but it was not what she wanted. She wanted me to take a piece of javascript she said some friend had given her and make it work using her image. She wanted me to do it for her. She did not want to know how it was done so she could do it for herself. I explained that I didn’t know any javascript and had no idea how to make it work, that all I knew is that I had never seen it done that way.
She emailed me back with a snarky, “A friend of mine did it for me for free.” And she posted on the forum outing me for ripping her off by giving her the image in a format she could not use (.gif!) and failing to give her what she needed. That a designer could not do what some friend of hers was able to do for free.
I blocked her on all her accounts I was aware of and put a notice on my help site that I did not work with javascript at any price.
Time passed and she contacted me on a new account of hers, “FA”. Or was it “F A”? It turns out she was still blocked on the old account she had renamed. The account she contacted me on was a spacing variation of the real account she needed the work done for.
She had a story about how an inexperienced designer had given her something she was unable to work with after charging her several times the initially-agree-upon amount. Silly me, I guessed who it was and should have contacted the girl to get the scoop.
We did not speak on the phone this time. I don’t recall if we did IM’s. But I know we did emails, hot damn! I got at least 2 emails every waking hour, and she wanted them all responded to promptly.
I ended up reworking a sliced-image photoshop template to make it easier for her to work with, to match up something that wasn’t quite right and fulfill her stated needs. I did not ask for money, but she paid me generously. I spent a great deal of time on the project.
Finally it was finished, and she now pointed out that she was not able to do something she needed to do – she needed an expanding text box in a certain location, which you don’t get in a photoshop template. without. asking. in. advance. Which she had not done, and which I would now have to start all over again to do.
I was finished. I wanted nothing more to do with this, as I now realized who she was.
She told me a friend had fixed it for free. She posted outing me on the forum for cheating her by giving her back a sliced image template – a table coded up for the images. Apparently she later sucked some other designer into trying to fix it, too, and it became the epic of “The $200 Template”, where yet another helpless, naive newbie was portrayed as victimized by flirt designers who cheat them and veteran flirts who won’t give a newbie a break.
The pattern: Complaints that veteran flirts and designers cheat newbies, and she is here to help by warning them, sometimes trying to “help” with “tutorials” trying to convince them to use low-grade html editors that apparently she can’t even use herself. Or warning them to be prepared to get the designer to agree to demands for unlimited communication in advance, and to be prepared to sue her.
I see posts like that and I get flashbacks.
I still get emails from her various personae trying to get me to work for her, unaware that she is well-known.
She pretends she is someone the designer does not know in order to get them to work for her.
Radioactive is the word.
I really feel sorry for someone who cannot permit herself to learn to do things for herself, who is incapable of communicating her needs. Or I would if she was not so resolutely malevolent and vindictive. How can someone lead their whole life blaming everyone else for the same things that go wrong, over and over again?
October 3rd, 2009 — Callbuttons, For Niteflirt, Niteflirt issues
- Q: Where is my callbutton? I can’t see my callbutton in my listing, I can’t see it in the category indexes! Nobody can call me, I won’t get any calls!
- We have never been able to see our own callbuttons in our listings while logged in except in the ‘edit preview’ mode. Now we are also unable to see them in the category indexes. Everyone can see them but you. To see them, log off and look again. If you have another account, log into it and you will see it, too.
You can’t call yourself, so you don’t need a callbutton to click. That callbutton being missing from the category index makes it easier for you to find your listing’s position, too.
- Q:I keep getting calls and missing them even though I’m on a call already!
- The old call status used to go into ‘busy’ well in advance and stay that way. This one goes in at the last minute and comes out when the customer is adding money. Sometimes it doesn’t go into busy at all, or resets itself to available even if you are still on the call (and ultimately correctly credited).
The solution is simpler than the explanation. Shut off your account when you start a call, and it will stay off until the call has ended and you turn it back on.
- Q: The new callbuttons don’t change from available when you take a call!
- Nope, they don’t. This is a major issue, because the callbutton is static. The code they give you permanently reflects the status you were in when you took it. The system will put through calls to you if someone clicks a button that says you are “available” even if you actually are not, and you will miss them. Somebody messed up when they were designing the code. It is going to be a big deal for them to fix it.
The only thing you can do is to not use the callbuttons. Instead link to your homepage or to a listing you would want them to call. The callbuttons Niteflirt displays on your account will correctly show your account status. See that button in my sidebar? It is always live. I am on 24/7 and only flirts see this button, so it’s not a big deal for me.
Whatever you do, don’t put callbuttons into your listing! They will see buttons that say you are both unavailable and available and click the available one.
- Q: I can’t tell what account or listing the call is coming in on!
- Pick an account (I used a slow one) and add a listing from each of your accounts to your favorites. Keep that page open. When a call comes in, after you click ’1′, refresh the page until it shows one as ‘busy’.
September 18th, 2009 — Niteflirt issues
I have a forum that can be used to discuss Niteflirt issues.
http://help4flirts.com/members
