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You may find this hard to believe – but you are only able to search 0.2% of over 300,000 profiles on Fusion101 (that’s a rough estimate based on a page\/profile count of visible profiles, compared to the exact number of profiles the database shows).\u00a0How is this even possible – isn’t that 300,000 figure just made up to gain new joiners? Well it’s along story, but the answer is no – its true!<\/p>\n

I’m working on making the 290,00+ hidden profiles available…<\/h3>\n

Fusion has been open since 2000 – and during that time it has frequently become vicim of it’s own success – constantly crashing and because the server could not handle the traffic (in 2004\/5 it was the 200,000 busiest site on the web – consider there are multiple millions – all done from a bedroom in 4 very intense years of SEO and long nights along side my day-job). Anyway – the site frequently did not work, and because I had asked the coder to hide profiles that were inactive, many people – frustrated with the site, tried the site once or not at all then never came back, and so their profiles were automatically hidden.<\/p>\n

Why is Fusion so ‘clunky’ and outdated?<\/h3>\n

Many people complain to me about this (I understand totally!) but they don’t realise – that from 2006-14 I spent over 150K of my own money on software and developers trying to build a replacement for Fusion. But nothing was ever finished as I went from one developer to another desperately trying to build something – I eventually ran out of money and trashed the whole idea. Finally 6 months to a year after<\/strong><\/em> I gave up – I can’t remember exactly when, out of the blue I was offered ‘a finished platform’ – but for 50% of the Fusion company. But as before I would be provided wth no backups, have no control of the server\/code – a deal I never proposed or asked for and was prepared to do, so in the end I never received any code or new platform.<\/p>\n

My own fault<\/h3>\n

The whole thing was my mistake for trying to get it done cheaply by using freelancers at \u00a3120 per day, accountable only to themselves, when I should have bit the bullet and gone to a company at \u00a32-300 per day and saved a small fortune – believe me it was a sore lesson and I feel a total fool as I could have had update the existing site beautifully for perhaps as little as \u00a35K – then we could have slowly updated the old site and server and even created a total replacement over time (that was what I asked for twice – and should have demanded – hind-site is a beautiful thing:). But the developers I went with refused to update the old site – preferring me to pay them to build a whole new site + a stake in the ‘company’.<\/p>\n

So what you see on Fusion is the original site, almost identical to how it was in 2000 – possibly less easy to use, since with the little cash I had left – I had to make it work on desktop PCs and<\/em> mobile for a couple thousand pounds – and I by that time could not afford to get it done properly.<\/p>\n

Constantly broken and admin basic features missing<\/h3>\n

Add to this that members retrieving passwords was often impossible (our emails were often blocked by ISPs), and the fact I’ve never had a newsletter to remind people to come back when the site was<\/em>\u00a0rarely working well (I paid for 2 newsletters to be created, and a friend kindly created one for free, but I was never able to use them and they would never handle that many members anyway) so I’ve never been able to email members to say; “hey – the site works – come back and have a look!” Frankly there was no point, as that many members would break the server and have a terrible experience! I thought best wait till the site is working well. Add to this – I’ve long since forgotten exactly how I asked the coder to show\/hide inactive profiles – and I see that some older profiles are showing up – while others not at all – quite a mess!<\/p>\n

Finally after 18 years trying I have a new ‘replacement’ site for Fusion101 but still trying to decide what and how to replace the site<\/h3>\n

My new site you can join here; https:\/\/www.101christiansingles.com<\/a>). I spent 6 months building myself is much nicer than old fusion – but Im still deciding the best way forward as I’m always faced with the possibility of the server crashing under the weight of all that new activity. So first I need a larger server (if you want to help me pay for it please click here\u00a0[DONATE]<\/a>\u00a0or any donate button on this page).<\/p>\n

Hopefully soon you will have access to much – much larger number of profiles – I just have to navigate my way carefully so we don’t have the same issue of a slow site and people decide the site does not work. But the most difficult step (building a new site) has been done. Small steps!<\/p>\n

God bless you – Edward.<\/p>\n

P.s – If you are sick of the Facebook fiasco, mud-slinging twits, treated like a $ sign and the world having access to your data, don’t forget to join my other new site (my 5th and final attempt at a reasonable Facebook alternative\u00a0for Christians:) at:<\/em>\u00a0https:\/\/www.101christiansocialnetwork.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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