Jay Heartay

*A month later.* Hello everyone. I'm not in the mood of writing a super-duper happy blog entry, so let's get straight to the point: in this entry, we'll take a look at a blog's settings. They can be accessed by clicking on the little arrow facing down beside your name, in "Manage Blogs".Your blog (or blogs, if you have many of them) will be listed. Click on "Options" and finally, click on "Manage Settings". Well done, you're now able to edit your blog's settings. End of this entry, make the rest by yourself. Meh, I'm just kidding. Kind of. The settings are actually very well made. They're simple, easy to get and you have explanations that goes along with them. You can't possibly fail at setting your blog's settings. This was probably the shortest and most useless blog entry I ever made about Blogs: Stats & Facts. However, there were maybe some people new to this site who couldn't access their blog's settings. Or maybe they've been around here for quite some time, but were never interested in changing their blog's settings, if they had any. Well, now they can. Congrats, folks. "Stay tuned" for more blog entries about blogs. However because we covered pretty much everything about blogs in general in all of these five entries, the next entries will be very different from the other ones. Until next time, Jay.

Hello and welcome back everyone ! In the first, second and third entries we looked at views, comments, likes and even followers. Today, we're gonna cover the entry publishing options. I'm pretty sure you all noticed these options on the right, allowing you to specify on what day, month and even hour you want your entry to be posted. And the year. But come on, who's gonna change the year they want their entry to be posted ? There are also a couple more options. So, the days: you can choose between 1 to 31, and I guess it's normal. The months: All of the 12 months are available, duh ! The hour: You can specify any hour and minute you want. Not the seconds though. These three options can be useful, if you're the kind of person who writes his/her blog entries in advance, you can set the date so your previous entry continues to "live" for a moment. The year: Now that's the funny part. You can currently choose to post your entry between 2004 to 2015. Which means you can wait a whole year for your entry to be posted, it can be posted this year and it can be posted.. years ago ? Wait, what ? How is this even possible ? Just to be sure, I tried to post an entry in 2004. It worked ! Until I made the draft entry a published entry. When you turn the draft to a published entry, the year comes back to normal. Then.. why can we even have the option to publish our entry.. in the past ? Is it some issue nobody ever considered ? I mean, that's kinda weird.. and useless. I thought it was funny/stupid, so I wanted to share this with you. Just below these options, you can set your future entry to be either a draft, either a published entry. I don't really know why anyone would set an entry to be posted later but as a draft.. but whatever, let's continue with the options. OH and I just noticed: the "Publish" button below this option.. doesn't even work. Odd. You can also "try" to create an Entry Poll. Why "try" ? Because on Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox, nothing happens when you click it. Am I missing something ? Am I doing something wrong ? I just click on it, ya know. And nope, nothing. You can also choose in which category your entry will be posted. If you didn't know, you can actually separate your blog into multiple different categories. It helps the readers searching what they're looking for in your blog, so they don't have the scroll the page for hours to find that one entry they're searching for. Or maybe your reader is only concerned about a certain type of entries you're publishing ? Either ways, it would be best to create categories to sort your entries. A little order can never hurt. You can also follow (or not) your entry when you post it. Simply check or un-check the little box and there ya go, you made your choice. If you follow your entry, you will receive a notification if a comment is left on your entry. Which can be pretty useful. Finally, you can upload a file (maximum single file size is set at 10MB). You can upload two of them. That's pretty much it for today ! These were the basics of course, and anyone publishing an entry probably already noticed and used all of these (or most of these) functions. Next entry, we'll be looking at a blog's settings. Stay tuned for more ! Jay Heartay * Anyone knows why the "Entry Poll" is even there ? Or why can you choose the year of posting ? Any theories ? And what's the use of the un-working "Publish" button ?

Welcome back yet again for a third blog entry about blogs ! ... Yeah I know right. If you missed the first and second entries, about views/comments and views/likes respectively, you might want to take a look at 'em. This entry's subject will be followers ! In case you didn't notice, you can actually follow a blog you like. If you follow a blog, you'll receive a notification every time a new entry or comment has been posted. You can also follow a blog anonymously. If you do, you will still receive notifications (if you want to) but you won't be shown as a follower of the blog. You can also follow a single blog entry, thus you won't get a notification about the other blog entries a blog can contain. A lot of topics on the forums are being "followed" but when it comes to blogs, it seems either nobody (or almost) follow blogs, either everyone does, but anonymously. I decided to take a look at some of the most commented blogs on the forums, as we already found out that we cannot rely on the number of views a blog gets. Here's the stats: Arctic Fox's Blog, by Arctic Fox -> 51 comments, 0 follower. Cait's Blog, by Cait -> 39 comments, 0 follower. Near Misses of the Mundane Sort, by The Second -> 31 comments, 0 follower. Alendalin RPG, by RyokoHonda -> 27 comments, 1 follower. * Yes, I skipped some blogs and I did it on purpose, you will understand later. As you can see, these blogs have plenty of feedback but no followers. Except Alendalin RPG. HOWEVER, there is something I didn't mention in the stats and that I should have. Maybe it has (or had) an influence on the number of follower. What is it ? The last time the blogs were active. If a blog HAD followers, maybe it lost a crucial part of them over time because the blogger didn't blog in his blog anymore (that's a lot of blogging we got there). Here's the last time these blogs were active: Arctic Fox's Blog -> June 19th, 2013 Cait's Blog -> January 13th, 2014 Near Misses of the Mundane Sort -> December 12th, 2013 Alendalin RPG -> August 4th, 2012 "Arctic Fox's Blog" and "Alendalin RPG" are dead, obviously. "Cait's Blog" is still fresh and "Never Misses of the Mundane Sort" is left behind a little. Is the "lost followers over time theory" still accurate ? Maybe. Maybe not. Why isn't there any followers for blogs ? Is it because there is no full-time active blogs ? Is it because blogs on this forum aren't interesting enough ? Is it because nobody noticed the "follow" options ? What's your thoughts ?

Seems promising ! It's always nice to get something new in the blogs section. We ? Ah, you're a team then (thanks, Captain Obvious). I can't wait to see what you guys (and girls?) have in store ! I'll be sure to give the demo a try, I'm dying of boredom these days.

I think I'd enjoy this game a lot ! And I like the glove idea, I don't see as much characters with glove weapons than pretty much any other weapon. Maybe except umbrellas.