You Know What Happens if We Don’t Take That Chance? Nothing.

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Thanks to all of you who’ve hung in there with us this far. I can’t imagine how much more we would’ve interacted and grown during the busy season of blogging had the mechanisms been firing on all cylinders to comment, like, and so forth prior to the Clemson game.

Thanks to fellow Refugee stillthatguy who looked under the hood for us and tried to remedy the gremlins. Since it’s the slow season, and since our site subscription is nearing its end, it’s come to this…a site reset.

Content will be saved and uploaded again once we’ve established that the site will function optimally. I’ve tried this on the mirror site, and it seems that it can be done and preserve content and comments. The unknown is whether it will actually restore commenting and like features to their previous selves. We won’t know unless we try, and getting the full gang back together again and commenting is the goal here.

What will happen? Hard to say. Step one is establishing the reset. Likely the current look of the site will disappear, and will go back to a basic look. I’ll post a test post to see how comments go, so Thursday will be a single post to allow yall to test the comments and likes features to see if the work again. We are getting traffic at our current domain and don’t want to lose that, so maintaining as much normal as possible is another goal.

If the comments and likes restore, then we will start to rebuild. Otis has some coding to do next, then we can work on the aesthetics. Again, the primary focus is getting back to normal commenting. We’ll take it slow, so some of the posting might be slow while we work on fixing things.

If this Hail Mary falls short, our next options will either be a change of host site or moving to another WordPress site altogether; however, we’ve settled into the new normal of GTP Refugees and don’t want to steer too far away from it.

Here goes nothing. Everyone get in the crash position.

22 thoughts on “You Know What Happens if We Don’t Take That Chance? Nothing.”

  3. I’m buckled in and in crash position but have confidence in the pilots. Let’s go!!!

  6. “Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!”
    – General Berringer, NORAD

  7. Off we go, into the great unknown. Don’t forget to bring the banners! Those took a lot of time and effort.

  9. “If this Hail Mary falls short …”

    As Burt Reynolds put it so eloquently in the 1978 cinema classic “Hooper”:
    “If that happens, there’s just one thing to do. Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.”

    Vaya con dios, JPM. (And the rest of us.)

  10. Thanks to all of you for your work. I’ll hold on while we circle around the dark side of the moon.

  12. This feels a little like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove saddling the nuclear warhead. “I’m gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever’body on Bear Creek.”

    • Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

      Great movie. Slim Pickens was a gem.

  13. While you guys are at it, kick Derek off of the team of contributors. Is he paying for the website or what? Because honestly, I cannot figure why you want to let someone come here each Wednesday and insult your readers, but that is just me. Otherwise great job, and I enjoy the web page.

  16. Thank you, Gentlemen. All of y’all’s efforts are appreciated on my end (that’s what she said). I like driving in my truck & FTMF & GoDawgs

  17. I hope you guys realize how much we appreciate your hard work.
    We need this site; it is very important to most of us.
    TJHANKS

    GO DAWGS

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