Yeah, I'm happy to do articles. I always check the thread to see if there's a list up but it's been very rare lately. If people do their shifts and there is a list of articles to be done I will weigh in with some.

I'll finish my exams on the 19th.

I am having a few issues at the moment. If I manage to get out of it, I'll be able to contribute once again.

I have to say, I've been really impressed by the coverage on bt.net and how well the whole thing has been run as a team effort with (as far as I can tell!) no egos getting in the way of stuff running smoothly.

However, I remember saying to someone that I found it hard to see how such a blanket level of coverage could be kept up once the major contributors hit busy periods and the initial level of enthusiasm inevitably waned a bit.

I definitely think the answer would be to try to keep covering ATPs and Challengers in that much detail but not try to do a new story every day on every Futures event the Brits are playing in - instead do a summary and only have a separate story when something really big happens.

Also, I wish I could help more, but life is more manic than ever at the moment.
 
I should be able to get my top 25 table restarted and regularly updated again later this week (GRMB, BTZ and the Jonny Marray site are waiting for that too ) and I'm going to try to continue to enhance the pick 'em sheets so that we can have a big, well advertised pick 'em for Wimby. But I'm afraid those things won't leave me any time to contribute articles as well.

However, I'm going to try to start getting my GRMB 'Brits this week' articles  back up to standard (they've become little more than lists of results recently, but when they are done well, they hopefully make quite good summaries of what's going on, particularly in the Futures) and I'm happy for any of you to lift anything you like from those.

I'd offer to re-post them on Freewebs myself, but a) I'd need to reformat them and b) publishing anything to a freewebs blog is just soooooooooo slooooooooow. It's like write the article and then spend half as long again trying to post it. I'd rather put my efforts into trying to write worthwhile stuff in the first place.

Is there any way we can speed uploading up a bit? e.g. by moving bt.net to a paid host - I'm sure we could find a way around the cost problem if the cost wasn't too big. Being able to FTP directly to a properly-hosted site, using something like WS-FTP or Leech FTP (instead of the Freewebs dead slow versions) would be ideal.

However, it wouldn't then be possible to do the web pages in blog form, I don't think, and while it would probably make it easier to do the rankings threads, I understand why doing it as a blog is so important when there are so many contributors.

Unfortunately, that was more questions than solutions, I just think that if it was easier to get stuff on bt.net, more of us would probably do it more often and be able to take the load off people like David.

RobC wrote:

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away sailing in the North Sea Race.

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Bit busy at work and organising Sportsman's for local football club, but I'll be more than happy to supply a few articles for the site. If ever need help I'll more than gladly lend a hand pal

I'll do articles again from tomorrow.



Good luck with the results, Josh.