Copyright © 2005 Freecast.co.uk 2008-11-21T00:47:05+0000 2008-11-21T00:47:05+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/ FREE shoutCASTing for one and all http://freecast.co.uk/ Freecast Freecast Freecast en 3 Freecast Freecast 2008-11-21T00:47:05+0000 en Copyright © 2005 Freecast.co.uk Freecast hourly 1 2008-11-21T00:47:05+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/76/New_anti-spam_countermeasures If you've noticed lately the forums have been getting thrashed by some nasty spam. I've completed coding some basic countermeasures that should catch ~95% of it now, and will make it easy to flag down later. If you have any issues with it flagging your posts incorrectly, let me know. Please give a round of applause for the users who stepped up to be moderators who stepped up to the plate in the war against bots. Freecast is still alive and well and we're having a blast providing free shoutcast hosting for all. Thanks again to everyone that makes this site rock. Also thanks to wavestreaming.com for providing our shoutcast hosting. Peace -Dom internet radio 2008-09-18T08:12:21+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/76/New_anti-spam_countermeasures binary1230 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/75/Credit_reset_problems We've had a couple of users report that they're having problems with their credits not being reset at the end of the week. We're checking this out now, but if you are having this issues, please just let us know in the comments section of this news post and we'll fix it up for your account individually until we track down the real problem. Thanks -Dom internet radio 2008-05-03T13:30:14+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/75/Credit_reset_problems binary1230 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/74/New_Beta_IRC_Client OK guys, I decided to try out a new java-based IRC client. I put this up in addition to the existing IRC stuff we already have, but check this out and let me know if you like it. So check it out, let me know if you like it: http://freecast.co.uk/irc/beta/ internet radio 2008-04-15T22:44:20+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/74/New_Beta_IRC_Client binary1230 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/70/New_Flash_Player Greetings all, Dom here again and back so soon. I've added (though, more like enabled) a new feature to the site: An embedded flash player for Freecast. If you click the new link on the left hand side that says 'Listen Now (Flash)' it will pull up wavestreaming's nifty flash player app. Feel free to link this player in to your site, just copy the link location or the HTML. I'll post more detailed instructions on how to do this soon, or if anyone wants to write a quick guide and post it on the forums that would be very helpful. Let me know how that works for you! -Dom internet radio 2008-03-31T09:58:41+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/70/New_Flash_Player binary1230 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/69/Dom_Introduction_%2B_Duplicate_Accounts_Notice First off, introductions: This is Dom C. here [binary1230 on the forums], I'll be helping out with some Freecast administration and coding. Andrew and Stuart have recently allowed me to volunteer some of my time in order to help out with making Freecast even more awesome than it already is. I am very interested in all your experiences interacting with freecast and will be paying close attention to feedback. Also, with more of us keeping tabs on the site, we should be able to very effectively minimize any unforeseen downtime. In the case of any emergency issues with the site (e.g. site is down, shoutcast server unresponsive) I encourage you to email me directly at binary1230@at@yahoo@d0t@com, and I'll get back to you ASAP. Secondly, I would like to remind everyone that the use of duplicate accounts in order to gain more slots per week or book more than 2 slots in a row is forbidden under section 12.8 of the terms of service of this site. Anyone doing this without our explicit permission is subject to having all their accounts deleted and/or risking a site ban. There are a few valid special cases where we do allow duplicate accounts, please email us if you believe your duplicate accounts should be allowed. Also see related (but older): [Multiple Accounts - forum thread] for more info on duplicate account policies. I am currently working on some improved and automated methods of duplicate account detection that will be rolled out soon. You have been warned! Beyond that, keep putting up your ideas/issues in the Bug Report and Improvements section of the forums, I'm always interested in feedback. Here's to another great year at freecast! -Dom internet radio 2008-03-31T00:58:47+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/69/Dom_Introduction_%2B_Duplicate_Accounts_Notice binary1230 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/68/Freecast_downtime_%28Last_14_days%29 Freecast has been entirely offline for the last two weeks. There was a change to the server on which the site is hosted which resulted in the domain (freecast.co.uk) trying to grab files from entirely the wrong place. Unfortunately we were not informed of the change to warn you in advance, and had to figure out what had gone wrong after it had already gone wrong. Not an ideal situation. The good news is, it's all working again, and everything should be back to normal. Fingers crossed that was the only hiccup for 2008. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. internet radio 2008-01-30T18:20:57+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/68/Freecast_downtime_%28Last_14_days%29 Stuart http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/67/Freecast_is_back_up Just a quick note to any one put off by the news item below; after working with Wavestreaming to move Freecast to a new server Freecast is now back up and running as usual. Thanks to everyone that let us know about problems with the service. internet radio 2007-09-10T11:02:21+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/67/Freecast_is_back_up Andrew http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/66/Freecast_is_down. The freecast service has been experiencing some downtime lately. As a result any bookings made will not be able to connect to the server. The full story as to why is here: http://forum.freecast.co.uk/viewtopic.php?id=609 The bottom line is, for the time being, project freecast is offline. We're working on fixing it, updates will be posted here. internet radio 2007-08-02T09:13:48+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/66/Freecast_is_down. Stuart http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/65/Happy_New_Year_%21 Happy New Year to all our users old and new! A quick reminder to all users to broadcast at a maximum of 56kbps. If you go higher the server will disconnect you every minute and ruin your set. The end of 2006 marks the first full calendar year for freecast. Here are some rough statistics for January to December 2006: Overview: Number of unique visitors for the year: 30,000 Number of pages served for the year: 490,000 Number of hits for the year: 845,000 Visitors: Jan unique visitors: 1,544 Dec unique visitors: 3,145 Peaking in August at 3,576 where the server threw out a little over 50,000 pages. Busy parts: The most viewed page was the booking sheet and on average our busiest hour was 19:00GMT and the quietest 07:00GMT. There are no quiet days, but the busiest day was sunday. Thus making sunday at 19:00GMT the most desirable slot we have. A huge thanks to our sponsors Wavestreaming for having faith in us from the beginning. Check them out if you fancy graduating from freecast onto your own internet radio station. internet radio 2007-01-06T11:54:43+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/65/Happy_New_Year_%21 Stuart http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/64/Staff_Members If you read our newsletter you'll know that Freecast is on the look out for some staff members, if you don't read the newsletter then this news post is for you! Basically we're looking for dedicated Freecast users to act as staff members. Tasks will involve -Moderating the forum -Answering technical queries in the IRC channel/the forum. -A few other administration duties And probably most importantly -Being an active and friendly member of the forums and our IRC channel Applicants should have well written English (like what we do), good netiquette and a familiarity with shoutcast servers. It should be noted that while we are not looking for a programmer or coder at this time these skills could come in handy in the future, so any coding experience should be brought to light. A second language would also be beneficial but not essential. The hours we ask of you for the tasks listed above would be an hour or two per day, every few days. As for the pay... let me put it this way, we don't get paid, unless you count the unlimited credits which we unfortunately have no time to use. If you're interested leave a comment in the forum or email us at freecast@freecast.co.uk, including any URLs you may feel would help your application. Note: I should note to people who have already applied that this doesn't mean we're not interested in you. We're just trying to give this as much publicity as possible, we're also buying some time while we get the control panels set up for you guys ;) internet radio 2006-12-09T14:52:57+0000 http://freecast.co.uk/news.php/64/Staff_Members Andrew