Tag: site news

Site News: Thank You!

I want to say thank you to all who donated via Paypal over the past week or so! I was amazed at the response. I thought it might take a few months to make it happen, and I was even slightly worried that we wouldn’t be able to pull it off this year. I wanted to hit $3,400 and we made it to about $3,450 as of today.

So thank you to the following people (first names only):

• Ashley
• Ashley
• Brian
• Carl
• David
• David
• David
• David
• Ed
• Eric
• Erik
• Javier
• Jean
• Jim
• Joel
• John
• Justin
• Karl
• Kevin
• Lisa
• Mat
• Matthew
• Matthew
• Michael
• Michael
• Michael
• Moser
• Patrick
• Peter
• RealWideApparel
• Richard
• Robert
• Roy
• Sean
• Spencer
• Stephen
• Steve
• Todd
• Tony
• Tony

My next step will be to take it to people more technically advanced than me who can make the thingamajiggers work. It won’t be fixed overnight, but we’ll get the process started.

Thank you!

Site News: TTB Needs Your Help

Good morning, faithful TTB readers! It’s been a while since I’ve posted much about news regarding the site, because everything since 2020 has been weird and we’ve all gone through some stuff.

However, the time has come to open up a little bit about TTB. As you all have figured out now, I’ve mostly been mirroring content between the WordPress site and the Blogger/Blogspot site. That’s because the Renovatio theme on WordPress went kaput in a few areas, including supporting comments. And I like the comments (it would be boring to post and not discuss with readers), so in order to get discussion, my solution has just been to post all/most content on both sites. It’s a little time consuming but mostly just consists of copying/pasting, so that’s not a big deal.

THE BIG DEAL

The big deal is declining ad revenue. It has been an issue for a few years and has finally come to a head. In short, I’m not making enough money on TTB to make it viable. For the first time in the blog’s history, I lost money on the endeavor in 2021 when I filed my taxes.

I literally paid to bring you (almost) daily content in 2021. The game reviews, the recruiting info, the countdown, etc. all cost me money.

Hit the jump for more.

Top 10 Posts of 2021

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I meant to post this a few weeks ago but got sidetracked. Anyway, for a trip through the awesome year that was 2021, here are the top 10 most trafficked post of last year:

1. Michigan 20, Rutgers 13 (LINK)
2. On Ace Leaving MGoBlog (LINK)
3. Michigan 31, Washington 10 (LINK)
4. Michigan 21, Indiana 7 (LINK)
5. Michigan 32, Nebraska 29 (LINK)
6. Joe Milton, Ex-Wolverine (LINK)
7. Michigan 38, Wisconsin 17 (LINK)
8. Goodbye, Down Brown (LINK)
9. Michigan State 37, Michigan 33 (LINK)
10. Michigan 47, Western Michigan 14 (LINK)

Site News: Visit Touchthebanner.blogspot.com tomorrow for news

SHORT STORY: Since news and updates will be coming in a flurry tomorrow, December 16 (National Signing Day), I will only be posting updates at touchthebanner.blogspot.com. That’s the only place you can comment right now, anyway, and I want to have a place for discussion. I will post about when National Letters of Intent have been sent in, what Michigan offerees have committed elsewhere, etc.

LONG STORY: WordPress recently updated to a new version, and the new version is no longer compatible with my theme. That’s why comments have been disabled – not by me, but by The Borg. I have been told that I need to re-theme (basically rebuild) the website, which costs a lot of money (the quote was $3,400). I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but we’re in a pandemic. And I don’t have that much money just to throw at this project when ad revenue is so low.

So that’s why we’re in a holding pattern with comments, and that’s why I have to post everything twice – here and over on Blogspot.com. On the plus side, I guess it’s a good thing that I kept the Blogspot site up, because it has come in handy a couple times when WordPress has been dumb.

Sorry you’re being jerked around from site to site. This is a major pain in the ass for me and has been the source of a lot of stress and consternation over the past several weeks.

Site News: WordPress is the new iPhone

Remember how the iPhone would just, like, stop working around the time when a newer version of the iPhone was being released?

Well, it looks like WordPress is doing the same thing. Good ol’ planned obsolescence.

They keep updating WordPress, and the latest update won’t support my site theme anymore. One of the aspects of the update that isn’t supported is: comments!

So that’s why you have been unable to comment on the site lately, which sucks. I am looking for a fix, but I’m being told the site will need to be re-themed/re-designed.

When MGoBlog broke, you couldn’t do posbangs or scroll to the next page of comments. When TTB breaks . . . nobody can comment, period.

Welcome to 2020.