Improvements to Anything4Free
Over the past month or so a number of improvements have been made to the Anything4Free website. These changes were made because of a number of reasons. First, Anything4Free has recently noticed a large influx of new members. We also noticed that the amount of spam comments on the front page was getting out of hand. There were a number of other smaller changes made to improve the overall experience of Anything4Free members.
In order to deal with all of the new members, we needed to upgrade our old web hosting server to a new server with a 4-Core Xeon and 4 GB of memory. Since the upgrade has been complete the downtime of the site (due to high traffic) has virtually gone away. This upgrade was great news to all of the members of Anything4Free. It meant that they could continue trading without the threat of the site going down because of the load on the servers.
We also recently installed spam detection software on the main page. This addition should help limit the amount of comment spam on the Anything4Free news page. Just before the software was installed, over 18,000 spam comments were deleted from the site. This reduction in comment spam should show a noticeable performance improvement on the main page.
A number of new members have been added to the Anything4Free staff. There have been a few new moderators and trade cops. The moderators help keep things on the forums clean and moving along in an orderly manner. The trade cops are there to keep member trades moving and fair.
You may also notice fewer freebie site links on the main page. This was done to keep things fair for the donators of Anything4Free. Before this change a link may have stayed up on the main Anything4Free news page for months at a time. Now, the link will only stay up as long as the donator has paid for. This change will showcase the links that are there.
We hope that these changes, and the many others which weren’t mentioned, will make your overall experience to Anything4Free a better one. Click here if you would like to donate and have your link on the main A4F page.
