Public Conversion Glitches

We mentioned in our past post that VH was about to allow non-members to visit the site. They would be able to view videos and blog posts that their authors had set to Allow Anyone to view. This was to take place on October 1st.

There were technical difficulties in converting the database to mark the allowable content as viewable by non-members. This caused the entire VH site to be offline for several hours last night. The matter has been resolved and non-members should now be able to have a look around the site.

All social sites have conflict and this one is no different. Presently, people are disagreeing as to whether non-members should have been allowed in. There is also discussion about the security of the site and about the recent banning of a member who had also been controversial on YouTube in the past. But the tone of the discussions have been positive and the site is still a friendly place.

Currently, there are over 1200 members and nearly 5000 uploaded videos on VloggerHeads.

VloggerHeads Opens Up!

VH is ready to take the next step to opening up the site to the world. At first, new members were allowed in by invitation of the admins only. A few weeks ago, VH allowed all members to invite new members. This resulted in about 180 new members to the site.

Now, it has been announced that starting at 9 AM Eastern time on October 1st, anyone will be able to view videos posted on VH. But non-members will not be able to comment (or post videos or blogs) and will not be able to see videos marked as "Friends Only." They will only be able to see videos viewable by "Anyone." Non-members will be able to apply for membership and their application will be reviewed and acted upon by Paul or Tom, the VH owners.

Current members of VH are being asked to review their channel to be comfortable with this new policy. Members can mark their videos as viewable by Just Me, Just Friends, or Anyone. This will control access to a member's videos.

As always, VH members are encouraged to welcome any and all new members to the site. It has been suggested that new members may make the occasional mistake, or take action that is against "VH culture" and that members should gently educate new members if they make any errors.

Two new moderators are being added to help with the new step in Opening Up the site. We continue to wish VH all the best in their wonderful vlogging experiment!