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Hello old friends! I'm honored that Doug asked me to come back to Newschoolers and do a live Q&A. So go ahead and ask me anything, and I'll do my best to answer. For those who don't know me: I founded Newschoolers.com. I worked at Freeskier magazine for nine years. I now work in digital...

So apparently people think that they're very smart or enlightened when they've been banned and 'beat the system' by coming back to the site. So let me explain to everyone what it really means to be banned, how it works, etc, so that these little quazzi wanna 'crackers' get over themselves...

Let's make a list of all of the similarities between this website and Newschoolers.com. http://www.mountaincanon.com/PHP/index.php Come on, it'll be fun. I'll start. Mountain Canon (MC) -> Newschoolers (NS) Developer Network (DN) -> Journalist Network (JN) -> Even look at the graphic on the...

The videos will work up to 5 megs now. Sorry 'bout that. Matt

You can now upload pictures up to 100K in size. And you can upload MP4 videos now too... I'm still working on fixing the video upload error when you upload bigger videos. Matt

BAM.

Just so you know, I changed the time on the server so that it's not in GMT time. So over the weekend, you may experience some odd occurances. The time is now in Eastern Standard Time, less one hour. Matt

Yo, As a lot of you know, NS is coming out with a clothing line that launches October 1st. You guys should ask your local shops if they'll be carrying our stuff. There are a bunch of shops in Vancouver/Whistler that are interested, so by asking, they'll be more inclined to carry it. So go out...

You may have noticed that people's dollar signs are different colors now. This is because depending on how much people donated, they get different donator representations in the online window. You can see how the system works by checking out the new Help section under 'The Site'. Also, if...

If you want to know what happened to the server, here it is in 20 seconds: The server was spitting out IO errors so they replaced the hard disk controller. Turns out it wasn't that, so they replaced the hard disk all together, then I had to re-construct the directory structure with all the...

As most of you are aware, the site crashed yesterday and then again today. Although when it went down today, it took the forums with it. For the nerds out there, the database was writing a record at the exact time the server crashed, so it left the database corrupted. It's fixed now though so it...

An interesting and valid discussion has recently been active on NS pertaining to terrain parks and law suits. These discussions involved a speicific court case that is currently under way in Vancouver. Because the court case is currently active, and some content in the discussion has suggested...

Hey, I upgraded the messaging system today. The problem was that every single time you loaded a new page, the script would search a 300,000 line database to see if you had any messages. So I did some archiving and now it should be more like 7,000 lines. There were quite a few changes made...

If you know of a local shop that's core and supports the freeskiing movement, post about it here. I'm trying to get a list of them together. I don't want any big stores or large chains.. but stores that actually care about the sport like D-Structure. Oh yeah.. just in Canada! Thanks! Matt

Last time I ordered skier hoodies, a bunch of people said they wanted grafitti ones... anyone still want one, or should I just make more skier hoodies? Matt

I was diggin through my closet today and came across an NS hoodie from 1999 that was never sold! This is the hoodie that started it all four years ago. It's navy and has a single screen skier logo on the chest in white. The size is marked as XXL but looks to be about the same as the current XL...

First off, I want to send a huge thanks to everyone who helps spread the Newschoolers.com word. The site thrives on word of mouth, and it's because of you telling others about it that it succeeds. It has come to our attention that certain members of the community are falsely claiming to be...

Hey guys, As I'm sure you're aware, Newschoolers.com barely makes enough money to get by. With the recent burst in traffic (we're getting over 700,000 hits a day), it's soon going to be impossible to keep the site online for the full month. We may have to resort to certain sections only being...

[root@ensim CVSROOT]# uptime; 7:57pm up 101 days, 6:19 New NS record! Matt

We were just talking about the front page (the one where you first login), and are wondering if it's really needed. Personally, I just have the premium content page bookmarked and log in on the side. The first page seems like an unnecessary step to entering the site. What do you think? Should...