Shoutbox

Hello everyone,

I'm back from my vacation, I'm sick and my web site is still down . However, it's good to see all the support you continue to give me and I thank you for that. I plan to continue working on the final release of Messenger Plus! during next weeks and, even if I'm reading your suggestions, keep in mind that there won't be much (but still, there will be some) new features for the final. I prefer to concentrate on bugs in order to give you a good and professional software, reliable, that you can trust and that do not crash Messenger in any circumstances (talking about that, I would really appreciate if you could participate to the poll, it's more important that you could imagine).

I'm now asking for your help for two things. The first one concerns my server patchou.com. As you have seen, it is down for 3 weeks now and it's hurting Messenger Plus! in different ways. I've tried to pay a lot of money to get a good server back online (by the way, I give BIG THANKS to www.superwebhost.com for their understanding and support.. if you search a host, sign-up with them) while I was in France but it did no good. For that reason, I would like all of you to carefull read this request and talk to your friends about it if you think they could help: the reason why patchou.com is down is a combination of the populary of Messenger Plus! and my stupidity . As you may know, Messenger Plus! 2.0 has an auto-update feature that is supposed to connect every week on patchou.com to see if a new version is available. However, when the connection cannot be done, the software tried again after 5 minutes, again and again... since the release of the first beta, I estimate about 200,000 people downloaded the new version which is fantastic but which also causes a big problem... patchou.com being down, about 40,000 people every minute try to connect to check for an update, which means that I can't put the server back online with any host... it would instantly flood their server and ban me from their services. For that reason, as I cannot pay $200/month for a robust server, I'm asking anyone who can to lend me a portion of his servers for two or three days. My plan is simple: find a reboust server that can host patchou.com for a very short time; inform everyone that an update for Messenger Plus! is available; this update will simply deactivate auto-udpdate once for all; after most people are upgraded, I'll be able to put back my own server safely without risking any problem. So I do not need much bandwidth but a server that can accept a big number of hits during a few hours. If you know anyone that can help, please ask them to send me a private message on this forum. As soon as it's done, a lot of my problems willl be solved and I'll be able to resume the development of Messenger Plus!.

Wow... big post... so I'll be quick for my second requerst: I would like one of the moderators to send me an email (you're supposed to have my email if you're a mod ) with a lot of all the bugs (only those who make sense of course) reported since Messenger Plus! 2.00 was released along with the associated post texts and, very important, the emails of the people who reported the bug of confirmed it (dont be afraid everyone, your email is accessible only by the moderators of this forum). The reason for that is that I have to have a direct conversation with all these people in order to be able to solve the bugs. Please do that as soon as you can (for the end of the week, it would be perfect! ).

I'll wait for your news about the server... again, it's very important to me. Thank you everyone, I hope you enjoy Messenger Plus! 2.00 .

Patchou.