Freakcity

2011

Welcome to Freakcity

Gratuitous flower shotI thought it’d be about time to update this thing. Never quite sure what to write here though, so I think I’ll mention a couple of things – firstly, it’s Freakcity’s 8th birthday this year. Secondly, I have plans to make it a bit busier, by dragging in some new people— hopefully not too many as I don’t want to upset the apple cart, but it’d be nice if the forums were a bit happier. Thirdly, if you’re new here, most conversation happens in chat, check it out. And fourthly, there’ll be some new toys to play with soon. Recipes, Freakcity local and TrueFacts spring to mind. There may also be an Android/iOS app in the works for the Virtual Box of Flyers...what that is, who knows?

scott

Friday February 18th, 2011 at 8:47am

2009

A new year

Welcome to 2009, freaks and freakesses. This year we’re going to try a few things differently. Monthly coffee/tea/whatever meetings, bike rides, cinema trips, walks, shows, basically anything that gets us out and about a bit. Myself, I will be disappearing off to Berlin, if all goes to plan, for the first bit of this year. I will also be finishing some of the stuff I started and adding a couple of new features to the site that are almost ready but not quite. I’ll also be advertising a bit too, as it’s been a little quiet around here of late. Stay tuned!

Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 5:01pm

Hello everyone!

Ich bin BerlinerFollow us on twitter:twitter.com/freakcity

Watch us on twitter:freakcity.net/twitter

Camping:Anyone up for some extreme camping? No phones/laptops/cars/etc, just some tents, water, food and nice company? Sometime in the summer...

Scottis currently working during the week in Berlin and is bored in the evenings, so might actually get around to doing something with the site;)

chat:irc.freakcity.netis still going strong if you want to pop in and say hello

Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 10:14am

2008

Small change in a big world

Spring is sprung. Predictable cliché. Freakcity is five this year, there’ll be something exciting in the summer to celebrate this fact. We might actually get around to doing the boating trip this year. I’ll also be making some changes to the profiles and the forums as it’s getting a bit quiet round ’ere and it’s less fun when there’s no conversation. There’s a new chatthing and there’s a new auto event notification thing— fill in the form and be notified whenever anyone sets up an event that you might be interested in according to your preferences.

Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 8:50am

Freakcity.net has a new daddy!

Freakcity.net, the alternative gay web community founded over 4 years ago byScott van Looy+ has been sold to the Millivres Prowler Group (MPG). Scott said of the deal:

“This gives the site a great opportunity to grow beyond what I can provide for it. I will be sticking around in an advisory capacity and to smooth any growing pains, don’t worry, not much will change at first.”

+Peter Vermillionof MPG was quoted as saying “This brings an added string to the Millivres bow. Our first foray into the world of online communities. We think we can offer the members of the site something truly different”.

“We are planning on bringing our magazine format to freakcity as an additional feature for members, giving them up to the minute news and information about all aspects of gay life. We think we can, with your help, create something truly special”.

Handover of the site will happen at the end of the month. Members will be invited to re-register on a special enhanced version of the website in early May, which incorporates an adult gallery, phone access and voice messaging as well as all the features you currently know and love.

Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 7:40am

Welcome to Summer

We’re expecting it to be great. No really 😜

As for us, we’ve some fun things happening in our 5th year — there’s our usual camping funhappening over August Bank Holiday along with some other bits and bobs that some of the members are doing. There’s going to be some new merchandise and new wallpapers. At some point there’ll be a barbecue or two and there’s also some changes to the site coming up in the pipeline too. Hopefully they’ll be finished by christmas but I’m always a bit rubbish at stuff like deadlines 😉 pic:Scott

Saturday June 21st, 2008 at 9:21am

Happy xmas!

xmassy image from Scott’s flatHappy Xmas to all you freaks!

Hopefully you’re all stuffed with mince pies, awaiting the excitement of arguments over television, having to hide the gin from parents and the ritual horror that is “The 300 best christmas hits ever” on Channel 4. And 5. And E4. And various variations.

So, friends, have yourself a grey cristmas and enjoy the holiday time. Don’t stress too much and look forward to 2009 with excitement, a little dread and possibly incontinence, depending on how much sherry you’ve managed so far.

Scott x

Thursday December 25th, 2008 at 5:07pm

2007

part two live

Part two of the three bits of the new site is live. Took a bit longer than I’d expected it to, but still...we now have picture comments, a picture toolbar, the ability to view all pictures you’ve ever uploaded, the ability to do funky things with pictures in the forums and in messages (akin to having private pictures to send people, but unlimited). Lots of piccy goodness. Also the ability to be texted when you receive messages and aren’t online. As well as the ability to keep a track of event updates by subscribing to them per event. Hopefully over the coming week/weekend we’ll have the amazing new events stuff finished. As well as video blogging from mobile phones.

Monday January 8th, 2007 at 11:01pm

Spring is springing

Welcome to spring!
Here, have a lovely Springy wallpaper!😁
There’s going to be a few updates happening shortly, amongst other things:
Editable front page
Rich Text editor
Blog integration with external blogging feeds (Atom)
Photo albums
Rants
and a few more things too! Any suggestions please to Scottfor consideration.

Thursday March 8th, 2007 at 7:51am

Freaks on a beach

Freakcity camping comes around again, this year we’re planning three trips, the Stiffkey camping tripfollowed by the much anticipated boating trip, which, although not strictly camping, probably counts. Then, in August, we’re going somewhere bank holiday weekend. In the past it’s been Glastonbury but this year we may go somewhere else. Feel free to follow the event links and let us know if you’re interested in coming!

Tuesday April 10th, 2007 at 2:08pm

Happy birthday to us!

On the 21st June 2003, freakcity became sentient. It was soon after this that Belgium fell and the rest of the world quaked with fear at this dark power risen from the depths of hell. Well, this is what would have happened had I listened to others and written freakcity in an open source language, fortunately for Belgium I didn’t. Anyways, to mark this stupendous event we’re having a bunch of things happen. See event:758 for more info. Scott

Tuesday June 12th, 2007 at 8:39am

Welcome to. Er. Summer :S

OK, so it’ll be sunny again soon. Hopefully. Maybe. Heh. We’re going camping again in August over the bank holiday weekend. Current favourite is Glasto again, so if anyone wants to come, see event:808. We’re also going to Brighton Pride, possibly staying overnight, if you’re interested in going to that see event:788. Octoberbash is also approaching, Dannyis rumoured to be doing something special as he’s 32 this year.

Friday July 6th, 2007 at 11:49am

Toasted toes and crystal clear nights

The nights draw in. We cuddle our computers for warmth, whole families snuggled around a flaming laptop, cocoa in hand. Happy SAD, all you freaks :)— look out for the traditional anti Christmas gathering, to be announced soon, your antidote to all things christmassy. I might even wear shorts 😁

scott

Monday October 8th, 2007 at 11:04am

2006

Beta is now live

After a long period of development freakcity v2 is now live. Expect some bugs, if there’’s any you find, tell Scott...

Monday March 13th, 2006 at 2:17am

Groups in forums

You can now create your very own forum groups, select forums from the menu then click groups for information on adding your own and/or joining groups created by other people

Wednesday April 12th, 2006 at 4:24am

Flickr stuff

have integrated flickr a bit so if you have a flickr account you can put it on your profile. Also linked to the flickr group pool

Sunday April 16th, 2006 at 1:36pm

New themes and groups finished at last

Finished two new themes (well, it’s more like one and a half as they’re both the same apart from fonts). These are the best themes yet, they look better and also show off some of the behind the scenes work that went into version 2 as they’d not have been possible with the old site. Hope ya like them. There’ll be more soon...Also finished groups, you can now add and remove moderators to groups. Moderators can invite and remove people from groups as well as authorise them to join invite only groups.

Sunday April 23rd, 2006 at 7:20pm

New theme

Another new theme, called club. Check it out

Sunday May 7th, 2006 at 3:08pm

Update

There’s been lots of little changes over the last couple of days. The new toolbar appears in most places where you might need it (I may have missed a few, will tidy these up tonight!). We’re on a brand new shiny and much much faster server. Pictures have changed a tiny bit. You can now chuck any sized pictures at the system and it’ll resize them when you upload them. This is part of the code that’ll enable avatars...which I hope to implement soon. Searching the forums is now a lot faster, almost google speeds. I have changed bits of back end code to make things work a little better. Overall, you should basically see things working a bit nicer and pages being returned faster. There’s a little page counter at the bottom right of every page that tells you how long it took to render the page on the server, typically this takes less than a second per page now.

Tuesday August 1st, 2006 at 5:57am

beta testing

There’s been a lot going on lately development wise. I’m almost ready to let people on the new code, but not quite. There’s still a fair amount to do though, especially on the mobile side of things. To get up to date news about what’s going on and access to the new code, join the beta groupand help make this release of freakcity the best yet 😁

Monday August 21st, 2006 at 5:21am

Almost done

Been working hard on the beta, if you log in to beta.freakcity.netyou’’ll see some of the themes have been updated a touch, the forums have changed a little, you can now agree/disagree with posts, you can add user comments to your linked friends’ profiles and you can vote quotes good or bad from the front page using the wonder of ajax...\n\nI shall be adding some stuff to the events section and some new bits to the front page (your events, moving the news bit, word of the day, new members) as well as enabling users to edit what they see on the front page so you can customise it for you. What I need from youse people is for you to test it. Log in to the beta, play with it, see what’’s broken and what’’s not and generally give me feedback. As of today it should all work fine apart from image uploading... 😉

Tuesday November 28th, 2006 at 10:38am

New site

Part one of the new site is now live, with the rest hopefully following over the next few days. Database is no longer access and so there might be teething issues or it might all just work marvellously 😉

Sunday December 31st, 2006 at 12:43pm

2005

Help link:Scott make some money for a good cause

A friend of mine is putting together a video about what’s been going on in Iraq since war broke out and as she’s only one person and not very rich she’s needing help funding it. I’ve put in £100 of my own money but would like to get the same from the website if possible too, so go visit 950for more info and to ask any questions 😊

Tuesday January 25th, 2005 at 8:10am

V2 forums finished, just the rest of the bugger to finish now ;)

I have finished the new forums, they’’re sat on my shiny test server, if anyone wants a play they should go to methuselah.ethosuk.org.ukand have a look. Post what ya like, it’’s a test database – mainly I want people to give me feedback and find bugs

Tuesday May 17th, 2005 at 6:26pm

Beta testing on the server

New url for beta testing forums: beta.freakcity.net

Sunday May 22nd, 2005 at 4:30am

2004

Updates galore

Well, where shall I start. I’ve done loads of bits over the last few months, most recently are the stats thing and the pretty pretty pictures. I have a few other things that I’m gonna get on the site soon – hopefully over this weekend...still looking for suggestions tho so let me know if ya think of anything!

Wednesday February 18th, 2004 at 11:23pm

Standards

Trying to make the site adhere to at least one web standard. Should make rendering of pages faster in browsers and iron out a few of the ickle quirks of the site

Wednesday December 15th, 2004 at 5:09am

RSS Journal feeds

I have created RSS feeds from the journals. To enable your journal to be an RSS feed as well, go to prefs and choose the ‘Public+RSS’ type of journal from the dropdown list. People will now get an RSS icon in firefox. If you wish to link to the journal directly, then use www.freakcity.net/rssjournal.asp?name=username, putting your own username in the url

Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 at 4:00pm

2003

Updates

“edit me” working again 😊

Added new options in edit meto let you set sex, sexuality and your homepage url – Also, you can turn on and off your blog here (if it is off, other users cannot read it)

Forums now work right, with thread tracking and a top five – so get typing 😊

Any questions, drop me a noteif something goes wrong, or just add it to the bugs forum under FreakCity.

Wednesday July 23rd, 2003 at 5:30pm

New Front Page

Redesigned the front page so it looks a little nicer – let me know what you think!

Wednesday July 30th, 2003 at 5:53pm

Public profiles

If you have a look in “edit me” you’ll find that there is now the option to have a public profile display

Thursday July 31st, 2003 at 12:27pm

forums get better

Forums now remember what you’ve viewed – see 48– also need blog help, see 44.

Saturday August 2nd, 2003 at 7:12pm

Smileys :)

I drawed some pwetty ickle faces for you all 😉

Sunday August 3rd, 2003 at 9:54am

improved forums

Have written lots of code to improve the forums. They are now listed in pages of 10, meaning you poor modem users don’t have to wait weeks for threads to download. You can now “reply” to people’s posts and it’ll automatically quote their post in your reply. The “ten most recent” box now tells you stuff in the correct timezone! 😉 Switching post direction now works better, etc...

Thursday August 7th, 2003 at 8:59am

hard at work

3265 lines of code since we started...cor, I’ve been busy!

Saturday August 9th, 2003 at 3:07am

blogs updated

Changed the blogs so they display a day at a time. Also have written half the ‘comments’ code for the blogs, will finish the rest tonight

Monday August 11th, 2003 at 7:27am

More blogness ;)

Blogs now allow users to add comments – via the net, anonymously, if the blog is entirely public, via the site if a FreakCity user’s logged in. I shall probably implement something that uses the message system to let a blog writer know when he has a new comment (or maybe just a page linked to from “blog”? Not sure...that could be easier I think!)

Thursday August 14th, 2003 at 7:03am

more stuff added

Have added a preview button to blogs and posts, have added basic themes. Have also changed the way profiles work, you can view by different types of stuff. Have changed the blogs so they work better and all kinds of little things...

Friday August 15th, 2003 at 0:54am

Even more stuff added ;)

You can now edit your blogs/posts

Saturday August 16th, 2003 at 12:46pm

Search

Forums are now searchable, and there are some new smileys 😉

Monday September 1st, 2003 at 0:31am

More updates!

Searchable profiles, new option in edit me, various other bits an bobs

Monday September 8th, 2003 at 2:13pm

Linked Freaks

You can now add your friends to your profile using the new “linked freaks” feature...just click on a profile and follow the link at the bottom 😉

Saturday October 25th, 2003 at 0:11am

More pics

You can now have more than one piccy on your profile. Check out the pic managerto add more piccies 😉

Sunday October 26th, 2003 at 1:05am

links and quotes

You can now add your own links and quotes to the site, and other members can rate them – add away guys...as soon as there’s more links I’ll make them searchable and stuff...so it can be like a big set of bookmarks for everyone 😉

Monday November 3rd, 2003 at 11:34pm