25.04.2013

Web problems

Robbie Rix discusses our recent website crashes and our fighting fund target

Online readers will have noticed that our website has the tendency to crash at the moment. Don’t worry, we haven’t been hacked again, but we are experiencing severe problems with the database, which hopefully will be corrected very soon. But in the meantime people are sometimes having difficulty reading us online. For instance, last weekend only 968 readers made it on the Saturday and just 762 did so on the Sunday. We had 9,487 readers over the whole week.

One of them was PW, who made a £30 PayPal donation. She writes: “I’m seriously impressed with the work you’ve done and are doing around petty bourgeois feminism, and with the way the discussion is developing. You’re the only group on the left that’s had the bottle to take on this reactionary trend.” In particular she commended Yassamine Mather’s article, ‘Out of the mainstream, into the revolution’ (April 18).

We also received four standing orders totalling £270 (thank you, SK, RM, DO and SE), but we were unable to collect our mail just before publication, so please don’t take offence if I haven’t mentioned your cheque this week!

Our April fighting fund stands at £1,262, with six days to go to reach our £1,500 target, plus the £160 shortfall from March. So we need just under another £400. You can do it!