Sorry for the break in the LEGO news, but I thought it is important to update you on what is happening with the server issues we experienced last week. According to the server guys the issues have been fixed, however while looking into it they discovered that one of the problems is TBB itself. 
When our readers left a comment they had the option to subscribe to any future comments in that thread. This way readers got a convenient email whenever a new comment was submitted by someone else; further discussing the topic, answering questions, etc. As we have several hundred readers subscribed to comments, and we do get a lot of comments, this resulted in as much as over a 1,000 emails per hour sent out by TBB. 
The server guys told me that most websites only send out a handful of emails per day. Even though their limit is 1,000 emails per hour, if a website regularly sends out a few hundred emails it raises red flags as the server can get overloaded. The point is; we are too chatty for our server! 
To make sure there are no further issues with overusing our server and getting our account suspended as a result, I have disabled the Subscribe to Comments plugin for now. I know this is an inconvenience, and I’m looking for other solutions that can handle comment-subscription better.
In the meantime I would suggest that you bookmark the topics and articles you are interested in, so you have quick access to them, and can check easily if there are new comments and discussions. And if you have any ideas for me for managing our chatty crowd of LEGO fans better, or have other suggestions for our readers how to best handle staying on top of topics, feel free to share them in the comment section below. 
Just to be clear; commenting is still allowed and encouraged as it helps to support the LEGO community. You just can’t subscribe to comments for now. However you can subscribe to our once-a-day email newsletter that will update you on the latest articles: Subscribe to TheBrickBlogger by Email
And now back to the topic of LEGO – stay tuned for tomorrow… 
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lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woooooooooohooooooooo! 
oh boy, I think I am around 25 comments.
How many comments has my sister done?
Please tell me you have TKG’s permission to use the picture at the top of this post. As fan’s of Lego let’s not be part of the internet problem of using pictures that are someone else’s property making the use of them illegal!
Awesome job on Lego News! Keep up the good work!
Shellz Bellz, yes, we do have permission to use LEGO’s images, and we are affiliates with them. As long as the images are not marked as confidential. (The New York Toy Fair images from earlier this year are an exception as LEGO spaced out and displayed LEGO boxes with confidentiality stamps, yet allowed people to take photos and videos of them. I don’t think they will make that same mistake again.)
The Kentucky Group???
LOL, it does seem odd!
Probably just that the K is next the the L, though. . . 
LOL! I think we have the persimmion of The Kentucky Group too. Whatever that means.
LOL… yeah I figured since the “K” is next to the “L” on the keyboard, that was just me being a goofy goober LOL… just wanted to give Shellz Bellz a hard time because she sounded so concerned… a little Internet BUUURN LOL
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It seems a lot less people are commenting admin! Maybe because you shut down email reminder!
I didn’t notice less comments in the back-end, they are just more spread out between posts. Yesterday there was a total of 360 comments, which is actually almost twice as high then we used to get a month ago. Having said that I do expect comment numbers to dwindle down eventually with the recent change. There is nothing I can do about that right now though. Less comments is actually not a bad thing. I think the change will encourage more serious and thoughtful comments, and help reducing TBB being used as chat, with “is anyone on?” and such comments.
I’m planning to move TBB to a larger server, probably in January, and I can put back comment subscription at that time. I do believe it is an important feature that makes it more convenient for our readers to see if anybody responsed to their comment. In the meantime you can bookmark the posts you are watching, or save them in your favorites. That way you can get back to them easier and see the discussions. I’m also planning to ad a comment feed in the meantime, that is quite similiar to email subscription, but it goes through your feed-reader, rather than email.
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