Catching Up

I've been tied up with various family duties of late, which have taken me away from Moonbase. I'm home now and am slowly catching up with emails and comments.

If you have sent me something to post on MC I will get to it soon and schedule it in. It'll just take a while.

I apologize if I haven't replied yet. 

Thanks for your patience.

Woodsy

Commenting Issues?

Current Stateside model contributor Philip G is unable to leave comments here at all.

Is anyone else experiencing issues leaving comments?

The blog is set to receive all comments, even anonymous ones, without any Captcha filters or anything.

If you once had issues commenting then please let us know how you solved it? Using a different device? Joining Google? 

Thanks,

Woodsy

IMPROVEMENTS TO NAVIGATING THE BLOG

I've added two new clickable things on the right side-bar; 

1. a blog archive showing the number of posts year by year [2020 had the most, when we were all locked down!]

2. a Popular Posts listing for last year. 

These compliment the Popular Posts listing for the last 7 days on the left side-bar, as well as the hundreds of labels at the bottom of the blog, which when clicked will take you to every post with that word in the label [early posts aren't labelled, sorry]. 

I've also tick-boxed any blog settings that increases the blogs visibility for search internet engines.

Hope this all helps navigate Moonbase Central a bit easier.

PROBLEMS BROWSING FOR MOONBASE CENTRAL

A few blog friends and I have noticed that browsing/ googling for Moonbase Central has recently changed.

The direct link to the blog now appears much lower down in the list.

Having checked this morning I would say at least 5 other sites appear first before the blog's proper link appears. All the sites do actually mention Moonbase Central.

I first came across this last week and after clicking on the blog's direct link every day a few times the blog's link rose to the top again after a few days, but its sunk again today.

I don't know why this is happening I'm afraid.

Another oddity seems to be that the blog's direct link is always an old post and not the current one. To get to the current blog post you need to to click on the Moonbase Central masthead at the top to refresh the blog.

I have also heard about issues around leaving comments on the blog. My guess is that different platforms react differently with blogger commenting. Blogger is the provider of the blog space and is owned by Google.

I would be interested to hear from any readers who are having a similar experience locating the blog and/or commenting on it.