Stop by here for the recent additions, announcements, news, and anything else that’s crawling out of my a**, or should I say, the strange and surreal corners of our website. The weird crap never stops at TheWeirdcrap.com! <– Elevator pitch if I ever heard one!
This page is updated once in a blue moon, for anyone who’s interested.
12/13.24
Been decreasing the number of scripts that load to each page and post, so the site loads nice and quick, or at least within official google standards. The default mobile set up is not optimized yet, so sorry cell phone visitors! Still loading slower for you guys.
We had a week of a few pages crashing as the optimization process was all trial and error, but we got things running pretty smooth now.
Up until this month, our busiest single day had been 6,000 page views. We topped it this month with one day that had14,000 page views. I guess folks are taking an interest again.
Hackers have been creating 50 – 100 fake account registrations per day! Looks like a bot is creating random characters to make usernames. So, word to the wise, don’t create an account and use a 10 -20 random character username, those will be deleted within a week. Just use a regular name, and I’ll assume it’s a person, not a bot. The app I use to make registrations doesn’t come with a captcha thingy, so bots are having a heyday.
Another previous writer recently contacted the website to reset a password. Looks like we might have a few new pieces of fiction to share! We love posting new stories, so keep ’em coming folks!
That’s all that pops in my head for now… I’m off to watch the news! I can’t wait to see who pops out of the Trump clown car!
11/14/24
Reading Stuff: We’re featuring a main stop for the novel, “The Witches of Pablo Pasco” to help navigate such a long story on TheWeirdcrap, which was designed for shorter stories.
The Chick Shit column got to be too much for poor Melissa, so she gave it up. But not to worry, within a few weeks a fan offered to pen the column to keep it going! Meet Yvonne, the lates bad ass to grace us with her hard hitting, truth bombs (as the kids say these days). Read at your own risk! And if you send an email via the contact page, get ready to be insulted! She’s can be a real B*tch!
You may have noticed long, strange, boring titles for columns, memes, and comics. This is to satisfy the weird world of SEO requirements, so our content is included in search engines. Seems kinda dumb to me, but we put it to a vote and SEO won! We’re also making slight tweaks to the wording on each main page to make the SEO gods happy.
Tech Stuff: We spam proofed the website the best we could, using plugins, apps, and nerdy code stuff. This was set to protect the site as well as the user from those no-good hackers. We also set up a high-tech Cache system, so the site and pages load faster. According to web tools, we’re loading at twice the speed. We still have work to do, as the next step is to tweak the code of each main page, so your computers and devices don’t have to work as hard to bring up the pages and posts.
We’re Becoming Popular Again!
Back in the day we had a million page views a day! Due to bad management, laziness, and the lack of business know how, we slowly dribbled down to no page views per month. We’re now running around 50,000 page views per month with the average around 1,500 page views per day, with peaks between 2,000 to 5,000 views in a day. Most traffic is in the main pages and in the archived stuff. Looks like we made a good rabbit hole! Take that Facebook!
04/21/24
Another glitch in the system. The contact form stopped working (not sure when), but it’s fixed now.
I had an alternate email notification set up and somewhere along the line (probably after a WordPress update), WordPress stopped allowing the alternate email from getting the contact information. I set it up with the admin emails, which is the default the system likes, so it’s all good now. Sorry, if there were some emails that didn’t get a response.
04/17/24 – New Email Contact
The email “webmaster@theweirdcrap.com” has been discontinued.
The contact form at this website now sends email to TheWebmaster@TheWeirdcrap.com. Seems silly don’t it?
Well, if you must know. Our web host charged us a hefty fee to have an email provided via the host (webmaster@theweirdcrap.com). The whole time I could have set up an email thru CPanel for free. So I set up TheWebmaster@TheWeirdcrap.com and discontinued the email that cost hard cold cash.
03/09/24 – Bogus Registrations
We had about 200 registrations that had 20–30-character emails that were obvious fake. We identify these as spammers and deleted the users. Luckily, nothing automatically posts. Your fake ad will have to be approved by the administrator before it ever gets posted, which will never happen. So, hey spammers, just give up now!
We also changed the registration page, so you’re not automatically logged in after registering. This forces the user to enter their login info to access a post page. Just trying to make it harder for the spammers.
Another technical issue with the search functionality. It loaded a search result, but the next page didn’t load. This has been fixed! Actually, I just needed to refresh the permalinks in settings, easy fix. Thanks Frank! He noticed the issue and took the time to let me know!
02/23/24 – ATTENTION TO ANYONE WHO SUBMITTED A STORY USING THE “Submit Without Login” link. If you submitted a story, but never saw it posted, we may have never received it. Turns out there was a technical glitch in the plugin/program that makes it work. A recent email alerted us to the issue and it’s been fixed. So please feel free to resubmit. If your submission was successful, you should see a message that says, “Your Submission was a Success!” Or something like that. If you don’t see that, it didn’t go. If you have any issues, please contact webmaster@theweirdcrap.com and let us know.
02/23/24 – Also, we changed some verbiage in Account Page if you created an account to submit your fiction.
02/19/24 – Excited for a new fiction series scheduled to be published in May. It’s a short novel that’s called “Witches of Rascar Pablo.” It’s just draws you in. When I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down! Because of its length, it’ll appear as 3 separate posts, Parts I, II, III.
10/29/23 – We have a new column! It’s called Spam Rider of the Apocalypse! Spamrider has his own unique take on our existence. Like our other columns, it’s an ongoing piece of fiction based on real events…sort of?
08/16/23 – Still working on transferring the older archived columns. This will be a long and painful process, because the columns that date before 2007 were posted using good ol’ fashioned HTML. I just pick at it, one column at a time when I have a chance. You can see the archives at the Lunatic Archives Page. Over the years, we’ve had six different columnists that posted their strange ideas and stories, just for the heck of it, because we don’t make no money doing this!
05/10/23 – TheWeirdcrap.com is back! It’s been remodeled a year ago and we’re up and running again. If you’ve written some fiction that’s just sitting around with no one to read it, Submit it today and finally get some folks to appreciate your work of art! If you’re thinking of submitting more than one, you can get your own login to TheWeirdcrap.com and track your submissions and make any changes after the fact. Pretty neat, high-tech stuff.
