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March Archived
1 April 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 16 Features, 7 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 144 items of interest), 1 review and 1 site note for a total of 52 stories.
We published 92 images in 16 of those stories, celebrated one holiday and posted one story with gear specifications (skipping the Canon video-centric offerings late in the month). We also marked the passing of two inspiring practitioners of the art last month.
We're relieved to have finally gotten a review up. We have two others we've been working on but one we had to cancel because the product was just not something we could work with despite the company's tech support.
But the larger problem is time. We're at the skilled nursing facility every day to help Joyce dress, walk and exercise, all things we would have expected staff to do for her. But they don't and those are essential. So we make the commute and put the time in. Reviews, consequently, take a lot longer these days.
OUR TOP TEN stories included eight Around The Horns with our Herb Greene obituary in third and our review of Minor Whites' Memorable Fancies in ninth.
READERSHIP numbers are once again inflated by the bot attacks. This time it seems to be Bytedance. We email them to behave themselves but they ignore the robots.txt that protects the site and htaccess seems to be unable to block them.
This is not a small problem.
Our bandwidth allocation is a generous 150-GB/month. The whole site itself is 4.18-GB. But yesterday, we served over 10-GB. Which means the bots are repeatedly downloading the whole site, over and over again all day.
We're not sure what else we can do about this. But if you try to access the site in the middle of the month and find you can't, at least you'll know why.