The State of Orble

Has anyone else noticed all these problems poping up on Orble while support and whom ever else actually "runs" orble is on summer vacation.

*Themes & certain Layouts don't work in certain current browsers (Chrome, IE)

*No Traffic Stats..(Some bloggers haven't had stats since OCT 12th..No Blog Stats Problem )

*Orble Support doesn't respond ( hence on vaca still i assume)

*The Scheduling Calendar is broken, I hope support cares, because it's almost been a month that it hasn't work. And yes I cleaned out my cookies and everything. (As of today I'm not able to schedule past July, 31st.)

* No one can explain the "The Ranking system", Support completely ignored me on this. ( The "new" numbers displayed on all blogs. My numbers never match or have anything to do with my blog stats that are emailed to me.) *Like why are blogs ranked twice and why is my blog rank, that's emailed to me is always way lower than what is posted on my blog. Why?

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Comment by Carole Anne Franco

December 14th 2009 00:42

The 10 Dollar Mark
Freelancing Tips
Love Knowledge Or Bust

Does Orble really have that many problems? I just joined, even though I knew it was 50% shared revenue and that I can get better out there, because it seemed like at least Orble was established and the karma system brings about some sense of community.

This, I thought, would help me get more readers. However, if there are really as many problems as you claim, it may be best to just jump ship.

I also noticed some spam in the business section (like 30 posts with similar titles, all with the same content) and of course reported on of the posts with the hope that whoever is in charge will realize what the person is doing.

I don't know if I have a point but...it'd suck if a blogging platform I just joined would be doing badly.

Comment by Journeywoman

December 14th 2009 02:02

Great Hair Style Tips
I Dream of Hollywood
Fashion Peach

Aside from the minimal support I've always found Orble to be a good platform. But yes, the recent lack of traffic stats has been getting annoying, and there are a lot of spammers on this network......... not time to jump ship yet, but if things don't improve within the next few months I may have to.

Comment by Morgan Bell

December 14th 2009 04:18

Deep Pencil
Business News
Movie Train

and no xmas party this year . . .

Comment by jkund17

December 14th 2009 05:55

techy.Bytes
Defendgreen
Web Stripe
Quirkus
Cinema Hindi
Films Found

But ya..don't get me wrong people...I love Orble and I think its the best Blogging network around..but..Orble needs a blog of status to let "us" know whats going on...and thats part of the problem...cause if things don't improve..orble will start to shrink it hasn't already..

Comment by Chris Champion

December 14th 2009 09:50

Vyoos
Zoomies
Bloggercises
The Blog of Lists
Newly Old
Money Whither

It's a tragedy. A lot of people have worked hard over a long period of time to try to build their blog's visibility and readership, all in the good faith that Orble would continue to support its members, and to grow and improve.

What we've got instead, it seems, is a ghost town.

I, for one, feel hugely let down. I can start again elsewhere - thanks for the tip about Tumblr, I'll have a look - but what happens to our domain names? And what happens to the 18 months I have invested in Orble-based blogs?

Comment by signals

December 14th 2009 15:28

The Health Fanatic
The Natural Order
Media Piranha
Arrogant News
The Dope Chronicles
Financial Ramble

You're right. In the years that I've been here I've never gotten spammed. Now they're all over. Still I like this site. I didn't care much for Tumblr.

Comment by jon

December 14th 2009 21:12

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Orblepedia

Hi Guys -- the servers are being upgraded and that always causes a few issues. I'm working with the ISP to have them resolved. Once it's all over we should have much faster loading times.

Traffic stats will be back today -- this issue was again caused by the new server upgrade.

Spam has always been a problem on Orble and it's no worse now than it's always been -- it comes and goes in patches as spammers find Orble, and then give up after a while when all their comments are removed. The only other option is to ban anon comments across all blogs. If you see spam please click on the report button.

Thanks,
Jon.

Comment by jkund17

December 15th 2009 06:51

techy.Bytes
Defendgreen
Web Stripe
Quirkus
Cinema Hindi
Films Found

Hey Jon thanks for getting back to us..And that makes sense and all..But you should really warm bloggers next time..instead of leaving every body guessing..and some bloggers havn't stats since Oct and its now Dec..But thank-you for clearing things up...

Comment by Jason King

December 15th 2009 19:14

Sydney Table
Salty Popcorn
Total Randomness

Support got back to me about the stats issues in a couple of days and spam has been annoying and around since I joined. But I am pretty sure this happens wherever you are.

Always from Australia? Not so sure about that, those silly Aussies

Being an Orbler is like having a relationship. It takes a huge investment of time and dedication and there is always going to be up days when everything is peachy and then there is down days like when some film pirate idiot posts a million films to download.

For those of us that love our sites then we have to grin and bear through the issues until things go peachy again.

But if more people leave I can move up the writing ranks so bring it on

Comment by Journeywoman

December 15th 2009 22:25

Great Hair Style Tips
I Dream of Hollywood
Fashion Peach

Thanks Jon! Much appreciated.

Comment by Mountain Fog

January 26th 2010 04:12

Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!

Hi jkund17,

got your commewnt on my site, tanx, and the time that this problem has spanned over seems way too long, I also notice some people get prompt responses from admin, others like me do not! Not a great way to run a site frankly.

cheers and I'll give that site a look too.

fog

Comment by Steve Gann

February 28th 2010 16:01

Beyond This Horizon
Good and Bad News
Closer Look Sports
OhThePlacesWeWillGo
BackPageSports
KnoxVegasChronicles

Sure it's frustrating when the site goes down, but Orble has given me 3 great domain blogs and I'm making money without having to worry about site maintenance.

As far as blog stats, slip an invisible Statcounter code at the top of your blog and you will always have stats 24/7