First site maintenance of 2011

As BurnoutAholics.com maintenance was long overdue I spent a couple of hours doing some changes to the site today.

Lots of the things I have changed most of you probably will not even notice.

Changes that affect everyone:

Changes to the experience of Burnoutaholics.com for anonymous users:

  • Comments are no longer accessible to anonymous users.
  • Unregistered users can no longer vote on polls.
  • Submitting feedback requires user to solve a captcha.
  • Google AdSense added to footer and right margin

Most of the above changes have been done to discourage spammers. 

As there is not much going on in the World of Burnout at the moment this site is pretty much dormant. There is hardly any activity at all and number of unique hits have fallen to around 200 a day which is not much compared to the around 2000 unique daily visitors we had back in the day. It might interest you to know that since we opened our doors back in 2007 we have had over 1700000 page views and over half a million unique visitors.

Once any news about the next Burnout title is revealed we will be back with a bang. Until then take care and have fun.

Comments

ZombieTron's picture

I have been giving Xandu a really hard time the last couple of days since he mentioned adding Google AdSense to BurnoutAholics.com. But, as you will only see the ads when you are not signed in, I have concluded that, from my point of view, the site is still ad free!

And although we may not be adding much to the site, until the next Burnout game... and as long as the next Burnout game isn't Burnout Paradise 2!  LOL!! Please feel free to add your own musings, as it would be nice if the site still has a pulse, albeit a feint one, once a new Burnout game is announced.

Since becoming a Mum, gaming has really taken a back seat in my life... I was even tempted to start doing a Mummy blog here, but I think I will not bore you all with new words and tantrum troubles and only blog when I have something to say that may interest at least one of you. So, as Xandu said, 'til then, take care and have fun!  

SUFFUR's picture

Since there is not Burnout game as yet, it would nice to keep it ticking over, and Zombie there is a forum you could baby blah in, i would read it.

Xandu good update and the google'ad touch. though it is odd, but we are alive.

PS wedding is... was great, fun, and beautiful...miss my xbox sort off, had a good time with family which is now huge! Just need to find me an India bride and boom i'll have the biggest family evar! lol. But love them all!

But it did kcuf me up today with all the dancing last night and the drive home, but was just an awesume trip to Austin. Now sedated.

Right got some relaxing to do, and some Anime to watch. 

Oh and so forgot, slaps forehead, who is behind the koobecaf burnoutaholics fan page, as for some reason i have become admin, thanks and kucf ffo, as i do not know who own's it or they have permission from the creator, though i will stick around and find out what unfolds... 

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

Nero Angelo's picture

We kind of started a burnoutaholics group page in FB, just letting you two know :)

 

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

ZombieTron's picture

And why weren't we invited!

And who is "We"?

Nero Angelo's picture

It happened 3 days ago, we went off a suggestion that it would be good to get to know other burners and so that we could plan times to race them in revenge..

So Eurone made the group, but made me the first admin..

Right now we have 8 admins who run it, which is good, because we can all take the responsibility of keeping the site up..

The admins are: Me, Roonige, Binnins, Eurone, Chino, Psych, Stinky, Sonic and Suffur..

The funny part is we just kind of started clicking on who will be admin, so some of us may want or not want that spot, as we didnt discuss any of this with the other admins such as SUFFUR but right now its working good. I made suffur admin as he has a take on this Burnoutaholics website, and Psych is good for updating a lot of things.. We gone pretty well from 15 members to 50 in 3 days and it will probably be more as its been active with everyone talking every now and then..

We would like to make you admin, but you dont have a FB as far as I have heard.. but that would be super cool, as theres always a lot of people in FB and were getting new updates and messages on a daily basis..

 

But anyways the link is http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_185441061499824

 

So far its good.. it was just started as a way to keep track of people, but its turning more and more into a community page.. :)

 

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

Nero Angelo's picture

BTW, Ive added your website into our description and made note that you are the parent site.. You dont have to be members on FB because as far as Ive heard you two dont have FB, but we thought it was a good idea to create some more social networking among revengers, and as SUFFUR is an admin maybe he can look at it every now and then, just know that it is run by the community and were active in it, so If we find anything that is very much in a negative light or anything that isnt is positive light, such as Threats, Unlawful Activity, Defamation of other people's character, well take care of it and ban whoever started it..

 

It is an open group, but Im thinking more and more about making it closed lol..

Would like to hear both your thoughts as well as Suffurs. :)

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)