• The ‘AskWoody Lounge’ starts its second year

    Posted on January 30, 2018 at 05:00 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    A whole year has passed since Woody opened up the site further, to what is known as the “AskWoody Lounge”, allowing users to register. Mind you, AskWoody.com actually dates back to July 2004. This year has seen an explosion in activity on the site, with around 30,000 replies and over 1,000 topics posted in that time. Site traffic has also increased, with over 110,000 unique site visitors this month, and we’ve just had the busiest day, with over 16,600 site visits.

    We’ve had a few site issues, sure (and sorry – they are still being worked on), but soldiered on together. We have navigated many update crises, even got to MS-Defcon 5, but have spent much of the time hanging on for the “all-clear”. We’ve seen cybersecurity threats like Wannacry, issues like Net Neutrality, the unravelling of Intel ME, most recently the Meltdown / Spectre vulnerabilities, and many discussions over the future of owning a WinOS-based device / machine. Woody has managed to maintain his trademark humor in his ComputerWorld articles throughout! Ok, so it hasn’t all been sunshine and roses here, but Woody has managed to keep a fairly good lid on things, with the willing assistance of his small team of MVP helpers.

    One thing that hasn’t quite panned out as hoped, was Woody’s wish for AskWoody.com to be a self-sustaining venture. Donations have been coming in steadily, but the ad revenue has dropped off since the site issues in September. All support received has been helpful, from whatever channel. Could we please ask for your continued support, and if you are shopping at Amazon, could you please use the AskWoody link? It all helps a little.

    I’m sure we’d be lost without this resource! In the words of Kermit & Fozzie Bear:
    “Moving right along in search of good times and good news, with good friends you can’t lose – this could become a habit”.

    So here’s to the second year – may it be more successful than the first. And three cheers for Woody! Hip, hip, hooray!

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