I had hoped to publish a triumphant ‘WOOT WOOT! We Just Reached One Million Views’ post today. Saturday, as I was speaking to a Barre citizen’s group about the Chronicle, the one-millionth view of 2023 occurred – about two weeks sooner than last year’s record Seven Figure View.
Alas. Today’s Letter from the Publisher is a little less triumph, and a little more snafu – a World War II GI acronym meaning, in language I’d use with my mother, “Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.”
At mid-morning, I started receiving a slew of emails from longtime commenters complaining that comments weren’t posting because an “Invalid Security Token.”
I know what an invalid is. It’s someone who is too sick or injured to move.
I know what security is. Rent-a-cop, right?
And a token is a fake coin that gets onto the subway.
But “Invalid Security Token” is, I guess, Geekspeak for “we’re not letting you comment.” Whatever else it might mean, and more importantly how to make it go away so that everyone can continue to comment, I and my crack team of fellow IT know-nothings are trying to ascertain.
And we will. We’ll fix it. When you think about it, it’s pretty amazing that we’ve gotten this far.
But back to a happier subject – the One Million Views. We (meaning the huge family of VDC readers) hit 1,000,000 on just the second day of December, about two weeks ahead of last year’s record. So from us to you – thank you!
Looking ahead to 2024, we want to reach a million in November or even sooner. To do this we need everyone’s help. Improving performance doesn’t come free. Whether you’ve been a Sustaining Subscriber for years (like my buddy Doug in Underhill, one of the very first), or have yet to join the dedicated, generous team of readers who make it possible for the rest, I ask you, I urge you, to please contribute either one-time or every month.
The sad truth is that like every army, our corps of Sustaining Subscribers will grow smaller unless new blood joins every year. People die, people move, people’s interests and life circumstances change.
We need your help.
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Thank you one and all for making 2023 the most memorable year ever.
Free Speech Forever,
Guy Page, Editor and Publisher