Why you can’t create a badge at lastfm.freedig.org
After receiving more and more questions why lastfm.freedig.org doesn’t work, I will explain what this “This service is currently disabled.” message is all about.
Important: At the moment badge registration is disabled at all. You will be able to create badges again on 1. January 2009.
I have my website(s) stored on a shared server with 1GB space. At the moment the badges use about 600MB of this space. As I also have other stuff saved on this server I had to limit the number of badge-registrations to 6250 6000.
If the page says “This service is currently disabled. Please check back later.” that means that currently there are more than 6250 6000 badges.
Badges that haven’t been used for 2 months are deleted every hour. Once the number of badges drops below 6250 6000 you will be able to create new badges.
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Thanks
An idea would be to only have the badges up for an hour after creation, and make the users upload them onto a free image server such as imageshack. it’s not like it’s going to hurt them or anything.
I thought about that, but I already have problems to keep the traffic low. In fact I have to think about a way to reduce it.
Last month (October) my websites weren’t accessible the last 3 days. It seems as if “unlimited traffic” means “100000MB” for my provider.
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Well…if it was that easy I would have done that long ago
The problems with free hosting usually are ads, missing features I need (for example a mysql database) or restricted functionality (especially allow_url_fopen in PHP is often turned off which means I can’t use the last.fm api at all)
How about donations ? I am sure that many users would share at least few bucks for the project or maybe just cut less popular badges options ? There are planty possibilities but I don’t know which would you find most suitable. But just as I said those two options are the best in my opinion. Good luck and thanks for great last.fm feature
Is there any proble with the badgets, apparently the page works but the badget i had in my profile yesterday has disappeared…
There are currently only 5,883 badges, but the service is still disabled… disappointing. I’ve been trying to create one of these badges for WEEKS!
I’m sorry, the badges are disabled until 1. January 2009.
Ok, thx
phew..this is really hard man..i’ve been tryin since 1st jan and i’m unable to create a badge..