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Hello WebFlakians! More and more people started asking questions about webflake's change of domain. To give a little more information, i wanted to make this topic. Why did we change domains and will the .net domain come back eventually? The .net domain got locked and marked "inactive" at our domain's registrar. This means that someone filed an official complaint and our domain, breaching the registrars terms of service, was forced to be put down. They also will not co-operate in redirecting it to our new domain, meaning that we have pretty much lost rankings in search engines and so on. The .net, as it stands now, will not be coming back online. What can you do to help WebFlake? First and foremost, thanks to all of our wonderful donators we could immediately purchase a new domain and make changes to our server's dns zone file as fast as possible. For now, please help us re-spread the word about webflake and mention that it is now housed on the .sx domain instead of the .net domain. If you have any friends or people you know that visit webflake, let them know! In the meantime our system is processing a bulk mail to all members, stating that we moved addresses. Thanks for reading and supporting us! - WebFlake Team

When ever i go away from WF for a while and come back it's log me out even though i have remember me ticked. it never used to do it with the .net domain but some reason its doing it with this has there been a setting change if not can somone help me or is it happening with everyone ???

The .sx ccTLD is for Sint Maarten, a tiny island in the northeast Caribbean located 190 miles east of Puerto Rico. Control of the island, which has just 78,000 residents, is split between France and the Netherlands. Around 41,000 live on the Dutch side and 37,000 on the French. PirateBay also went down the route of purchasing the .sx domain as well after even more domain legal action from the swedish. We presume that WebFlake.net got reported for hosting warez files for the members of webflake so considering PirateBay has been doing perfectly fine on .sx then I presume due to it being an offshore domain that it's much harder to take the domain down. Don't quote me on this as i'm not 100% sure that is the case. Anyway, I'm glad to see WebFlake is back up and running, please work with us to spread the word to your friends about the new domain! Thanks, Kingy

Neat little site u have here thanks for having me

startssl is free however there free certs are not verified by all browsers such as google chrome and some people will be hit with the untrusted certificate error just buy a cheap ssl cert from cheapssls.com and youll be sorted although you only need ssl if your selling not for a forum

The Importance of Descriptive Titles It's important to let your users know that you want them to use descriptive titles. Google loves titles and especially when you're using the friendly URLs this is important. Search engines like Google can't do much with a topic titled "Hey" or "Team" or "error". Sure, it will be indexed but think about the thousands (if not millions) of other topics, pages, blogs etc. with a post or content that has "Hey" or "Team" or "error" in them. Why do you want descriptive titles? For targeted searches, plus you'll reach a much bigger audience and get higher rankings for that specific title. Let's take an example: If your topic title is "Help Me", your fURL would be: sitename.com/topic/201-Help-Me/A person using google typing in "Help Me" will not find your website, because there are millions of other sites that have a topic called "Help Me" and since your site does not have a high pagerank (at least, not so high that u will rank 1st on "Help Me") you will not be in the first results page. The solution would be to let users use descriptive titles, like in the example below: Users should use a descriptive title like "Help Me with Installing IPB Modifications", so your fURL would be: sitename.com/topic/202-Help-Me-with-Installing-IPB-Modifications/Chances are that there's not that many forums with topics about this specific thing, but still there are many people wanting to know how to install IPB modifications and need help with it. So if they would google "Help me with installing IPB modifications", your site is more likely to pop-up in the search results. But trust me, this won't happen in a flash. It takes time for search engines to index your site, and as your site is building up content search engines will start to value it and index it higher over time. But this is based on a lot more factors than just a descriptive title. I hope you know a little bit more now. So, descriptive titles are important for search engines, but are not the only factor. Start out using descriptive titles in your topics and telling your users to use them too, will definitely improve your site's quality. Visitors want to see what a topic is about without doing much work.