Crib Chatter is Back Online!
So sorry for being away.
The site was being attacked by the spammers again. It took a little bit of time to figure out what was going on and to get it fixed but it should be okay going forward.
I know you guys hate to sign in to make comments but some of the spammers have been trying to break into the comments section at the rate of thousands per hour.
We’re so popular.
Because I’ve been doing all the busy work of getting the site back up, I won’t be back to my regular posting until Thursday.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported over the weekend that the luxury market in both for sale and rental properties has really slowed in Manhattan.
“Through the first three quarters of the year, 84 percent of ultraluxury listings — the priciest 10 percent in Manhattan — sold below the original asking price, up from 65 percent in 2015, when the market was riding high, according to StreetEasy. The median price cut remained unchanged at $500,000, which could suggest sellers need to cut deeper still, said Nancy Wu, an economic data analyst for the company.
“It feels worse when you’re out in the trenches,” said Donna Olshan, the president of Olshan Realty, which puts out a weekly report on contracts signed on properties seeking $4 million and up. That segment has taken an average of 441 days to go into contract so far in 2018, the longest stretch since at least 2013, when similar homes spent 172 days on the market. Through Dec. 2, $4 million-plus homes were reduced on average by 9 percent before a contract was signed, but Ms. Olshan believes that after sellers make additional concessions, the actual discount is closer to 15 or 20 percent.
She predicts that 2018 will finish with 6 to 10 percent fewer $4 million-plus contracts signed than last year, when 1,172 were signed, and roughly 20 percent fewer than during the peak year of 2013.”
Similarly, rent concessions are the norm in the luxury rentals and yoga pop ups are now routinely renting out spaces.
They say that real estate trends start on the coasts and slowly move to the center of the country.
Will Chicago’s luxury market be the next to slow in 2019?
Welcome Back!
So what about comment email notification? It seems that went away with the site upgrade.
Glad you’re back up.
Welcome back! I was worried!
“So what about comment email notification? It seems that went away with the site upgrade.”
What is that?
It could be it’s not built into this new template, but was in the old one. I may be able to add it though.
“Welcome back! I was worried!”
Me too. I thought the site might be toast. Lol.
Sabrina, what I am referring to is that when we commented on a post we could check a box and that would notify us via email of any subsequent comments posted. That option is no longer present.
Sabrina, if this helps there is a comment manager that is part of that system. It’s still active so the functionality is there but just not accessible. This link will take you to it but since I don’t want to put my key out there you can’t see the full functionality. http://cribchatter.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1
I was gonna write something snarky but will instead test the html editor on the comment page.
“Sabrina, if this helps there is a comment manager that is part of that system.”
It’s still active but I’m not sure why it’s not working. It may be this version of wordpress. I’ll look around this weekend and see if I can find another plug-in that’s similar.
Losing one’s domain name I thought was more of the owner of the site not paying attention to pay their registrar and not the work of spammers?
“Losing one’s domain name I thought was more of the owner of the site not paying attention to pay their registrar and not the work of spammers?”
If the domain name was lost you wouldn’t have gotten the error message you saw. It literally would have taken you nowhere.
So, no, the site was being attacked by spammers. 20,000-30,000 within minutes trying to “get in.” My hosting service flags these things and will take the site off line. But it took them a few days to figure out where the spammers were coming from.
Are you still active now in 2023??
Barb: Crib Chatter is alive and well and still posting everyday.
This is the 15th year of Crib Chatter. Lol.