Earlier this year, ReadyHosting.com got sold to Someone Else. Someone Else didn’t want to continue hosting my cliff1976.com website, so they turned me over to http://hosting.macomp.com. Bummer. Two big security holes exposed inside of 10 days.
When you’re running a website supporting thousands of users (it’s the low thousands, but hey, it’s more than 2 thousand!), many of whom are more into paper than monitors, it’s important to provide them with a reasonably secure browsing environment. http://hosting.macomp.com just couldn’t do that for me.
So, this morning, I put in my cancellation request. I transferred the wishes from http://www.cliff1976.com to http://bcwish.cliff1976.net. This was a project I’d been working on for months, but I decided to take the plunge sooner rather than later given http://hosting.macomp.com ‘s tendency to let my site get hacked by “spykids” or some site in Brazil that wants all my users to download some kind of scary-looking executable file called zip.scr. Gosh, I hope no one actually did that.
Looks like the Regensblog has just become our primary home on the web. Eventually, I’ll move cliff1976.com onto 
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Hi, Cliff and Sarah-
Just wanted to say thanks for keeping the Wish List site up and running at a more secure location. The new layout looks wonderful, am digging what you’ve accomplished.
I noticed the goofiness from the other server and hoped you weren’t plagued by viruses or any of that rot. Those people need to get lives. Too bad we can’t convince them to cross from the Dark Side (hackerland) to the Bright Side (Bookcrossing). Maybe if they spent more time reading, they’d be happier people.
In any case, good luck with the new site and thanks.
-Trekwoman (at BC)
Cliff – love love love the new look of the Wishlist site. Great job! Will be uber-happy when ability to sort alphabetically returns :) Thanks for continuing to provide a fantastic resources for all us bibliophiles.
that new wish list department looks fantastic! well worth the work!
I just stumbled across the new Wish List site when I got a random PM from another BookCrosser who wanted to send me –you guessed it! — books from my Wish List. It’s AMAZING! It’s beautiful and useful. Thanks to you, I’ve recently gotten John Reed’s INSURGENT MEXICO, now in my “to read” pile, and a stack of Granta issues is en route.
Last time we corresponded, I volunteered to keep you in mustard. I’d absolutely send celery seed and taco mix — maybe even Bisquik! — in thanks, especially since I’ve no books on your wish list.
Thanks, Cliff!
ldpaulson
Love the new look, although it won’t be nearly so subtle for browsing at work any more :( And what prats those script kiddies are …. I guess they’ll grow out of it eventually, but the rest of us have to put up with it in the meantime. At least nothing was lost!
Will the new site have the same “ticked off” function as the old one, eventually? I must admit I rather liked that myself – but with the size of my list, I can understand if it’s been dropped from the new design to keep the database size down! Just being curious/nosey, really ;)
And lastly, thanks for all the work you have put into the site. I’m sure you don’t get to see as much appreciation as people feel for it, so to rectify my slackness in thanking you before – many many thanks. :)
Hi – I’m thinking about coding a “checked off” (“ticked off” sounds so angry to my American ears!) function back into the wishes, but with an automatic expiration and deletion after, oh 30 or 60 or 90 days or something. It was a suggestion I saw in the forums at http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum and I think it’s a good one. We’ll see what kind of resources I can throw at this. Wish sorting, wish printing, and a low-tech version (suitable for low-vision and hand-held-device and WebTV users) are all on the “wish list’s wish list.”
Hi Cliff, hope is OK to stick my nose in here and leave a message. Just wanted to thank you for your brilliant wish list facility, and to ask if it would be possible to add on where the book crosser is from? I use wish list to search for people who want books that I have available, but I can just afford to post UK only so it would be very handy if I knew who was where! Thanks again, Maureen