The FAIL Blog – now at FAILBLOG.org!
The FAIL Blog has moved to a new home at FAILBLOG.org!
We’re moving to allow more features for the blog, like star ratings, image upload tools and more! For now there will be no obvious changes – other than the URL that appears in your address bar. This is because we’re simply redirecting all the traffic from the old addresses. This is to provide a grace period for readers to change their RSS subscriptions and bookmarks over to the new address.
So, if you’ve bookmarked The FAIL BLog before, you now need to bookmark:
http://failblog.org
If you’ve subscribed to The FAIL Blog’s RSS feed, you now need to subscribe to:
http://failblog.org/feed
In a few weeks from now, the changeover to a new hosting server will happen, removing all ties to the old “failblog.wordpress.com” URL. This is really going to screw over your Google search results for a while, and will mean that any old links to pages and content will not work! I’m confident all the changes will be worth it though 
Watch this space…
Make that money fail BLOG!
You guys should use FeedBurner or some other similar service. Instead of announcing a feed link on your domain (failblog.org — btw, congratulations for the new domain!), you would announce one in a stable 3rd party domain that won’t be changing any time soon.
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
oh right, well, thats nice of you. But i really like the star rating system, like on youtube.
http://www.righthandgenius.wordpress.com
^^make my insides happy
Wow, you have a real site now! Nice job, failblog wins!
That means you earned enough ;]
A big win for failblog!
A big FAIL for failblog unless it uses HTTP redirects to redirect the old URLs to the new…
Cool, star ratings! Better then reading all the comments.
Also, is there going to be a special page for the Failboat?
Why don’t you just use feedburner in order to avoid any future feed redirections?
What Db0 said, and also, you could redirect all urls to the new ones without anyone noticing.
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm
Jeah a real domain! Keep up the nice work
Congrats on the changes, good luck with it. I think the advice on the redirects are imperative.
Check out my blog – What were they thinking?
Obama’s campaign is failing.
Have you seen the latest Reverend Manning video?
I guess I will be doing the same thing very soon; but won’t you miss out on being WordPress’s featured blog so often…?
Yours
The Adsense Strategist
http://adsensestrategiesadsense.wordpress.com/feed
Holla!
It should work, as it worked for me when I redirected my blog to a new domain. It never changed the google positioning, it only took a few hours for it to notice the switchover.
Congrats, though
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Holla!
Also, should you change the E-mail to something like pictures@failblog.org?
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WordPress.com trying to get $600 from you up front and $300 per month afterward = FAIL!
Congrats on the success and move, now go gets you some of that Internet money!
As a side note; ABC, wordpress.com doesn’t allow for redirecting like what you’re talking about. The only domain redirecting they’ll allow is the domain mapping option they currently offer for those who wish to have their own domain name pointed to their wordpress.com blog. WordPress.com woudn’t let them point failblog.wordpress.com to failblog.org if FAIL blog is hosted elsewhere.
Your feed isn’t recognized as valid by Firefox.
RSS fail.
This sounds interesting. What happened exactly?
beltwaysnark, that is no excuse. If they cannot do the move properly, then they should not do it at all.
Sorry that WordPress sucks. Maybe the failblog folks should have thought of that earlier.
Getting LiveJournal to change the feed URL is going to be a big pain. I guess because of failblog’s FAIL, lots of people won’t read it anymore.
ABC – yes, it is a pain. And frankly, it’s not something I considered when I started the blog. I was only getting around a thousand hits a day (mainly from friends and colleagues) so expansion wasn’t on the cards. Now The FAIL Blog gets hundreds of times as many hits, I feel I can warrent spending my time developing new features.
I am sorry that a few of my readers will miss out (temporarily), but I’m confident the end will justify the means.
Db0 – That what WordPress.com charges for VIP hosting, which is the only way thus far to put ads on your blog. It’s $600 up front and then $300 per month for hosting. While I’m sure FAIL blog could cover that with ad revenue (assuming you plan to price your ads in line with ICHC), it still sucks.
ABC, leechio didn’t make the rules, he has to deal with them. And why would getting LiveJournal to change the RSS feed address be a pain?
leechio, I don’t think anyone expects their blog to blow up huge like yours did. I don’t fault you for moving off wordpress.com, even though it is a pain. I’m sure everyone will update their bookmarks and RSS feeds and life will go on. Good luck with the move!
Well that is the policy of WP from the beggining. I don’t agree with the cost but that’s their decision.
I you were planning to take this commercial from the start then wp.com was the wrong choice.
Are you hosted on your own host now or are you just preparing for the move still?
I’m asking since I still see I’m logged in Wp.com when commenting and my old feed still works.
That made me chuckle. How many friends and colleagues do you have?!!
If you’re getting 1k a day then you’re certainly not just with friends and colleagues. I don’t know where you are planning to host it on but it will certainly generate a lot of bandwidth.
awesome, congradulations! did my spelling just Fail? it always does
Glad to see you are continuing to copy everything we’re already doing on Shipment Of Fail
You have FAILED to convince me that all of these photos are genuinely real and not photoshopped.
enjoyed the pics…no matter where they came from…still funny and thought provoking… http://www.disorganizedorganizer.com
nice
HUMOR FAIL!
Before speaking of Manning, it’s important to mention another individual first, to put things into the proper perspective:
On January 23rd 2008 on the Jeff Rense radio program, a man named Larry Sinclair made stunning claims about Senator Barack Obama. Sinclair claimed that in 1999 he met Barack Obama and Obama purchased and supplied him with cocaine. Sinclair also claims that he performed an oral sex act on the Senator and that the Senator smoked crack cocaine during the evening : “I smoked his pole, he smoked my crack”.
Larry Sinclair has thus far failed to produce a single viable piece of evidence, yet is continuing to take advantage of every media outlet and communication medium in an attempt to extort money from Senator Obama. He has staged phoney press conferences, started numerous blogs, contacted all mainstream media outlets with his flimsy and fundamentally unverifiable accusations. Is it any wonder nobody in the mainstream media wants to risk their career and credibility covering this farce?
Legally and morally, the burden is on Sinclair to prove his allegations, not on Obama to disprove them. Larry Sinclair knows this, but he is banking (quite literally) on the fact that the court of public opinion operates quite differently than a court of law, and isn’t making any substantial effort to prove his accusations.
He knows that it’s hard to prove you DIDN’T do something, and is rallying the ignorant under this pretense to send him contributions (and any other number of other ‘fundraising’ activities of questionable legality). He’s got them so worked up that several of them are posting threats on his blog (larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com) to kill Obama if he gets elected.
And as if that weren’t enough, this so-called Reverend (Mr. Manning) seems to worship Larry Sinclair *more* than he would worship God. He supports Sinclair to the hilt (no pun intended) even though Sinclair is admittedly and openly homosexual, a drug user, a liar, a thief, and is clearly and unashamedly unrepentant.
Manning, like Sinclair, is looking for 15 minutes of fame and a fatter pocketbook, and both are nuttier than a chipmunk’s poop.
The advert is a fail… Lol
I’m viewing the fails on failblog.org and it shows this… wtf
obvious fail