The CEO of Wordpress.org, Matt Mullenweg, announced they have banned WP Engine (a commercial Wordpress host) from accessing its resources. If your blog is hosted on WP Engine (wpengine.com) then you're probably affected by this. In short, WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine's customers to install themes and update plugins that are hosted on wordpress.org, including security updates. It looks like this news impacts over 180k blogs hosted on WP Engine 🤯 If you host your own blog elsewhere (e.g. on your own server), you're probably ok! More commentary over at TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/wordpress-org-bans-wp-engine-blocks-it-from-accessing-its-resources

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to the Travel Massive community and would like to ask for your help. Sorry for the long post. I do a lot of things as a job from dog walking to building websites for clients to being a travel agent. But when I started to be a travel agent, I quickly started to dislike all of the SaaS tools out there made for travel agents. Lots are just outdated and lack innovation (in my opinion). So this led me to start building a better CRM for travel agents called VoyagrCRM (voyagrcrm.com). I am still in the building stage for the MVP and I want to start building a waitlist of users that may be interested but I am running into a problem. All of the big travel agent communities on Reddit and Facebook have a no self-promotion rule. I have even reached out to the group owners and asked (because I am not promoting travel agent services, but a tool to help travel agents) and they still told me no. So my question is, with little to no money for paid advertising and b...

This weekend, Telegram's CEO and Founder Pavel Durov was arrested when he landed in France. There's a hundred news articles about it if you'd like to learn the specifics. Here's a story about it from Wired: www.wired.com/story/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrest/ You might be wondering what this story has to do with travel, or Travel Massive. If you're a member of Travel Massive, you've probably heard of Telegram or use it. It's a chat app similar to WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE (popular in Thailand, Japan), KakaoTalk (Korea), WeChat (China), etc. If you travel to parts of Central Asia, Russia, or Indonesia you'll probably need Telegram to keep in touch with locals you meet. In terms of community building, Telegram excels at group chat. For example — we've got an Almaty Travel Massive Telegram group that is very active with our community in Kazakhstan. I'm a regular user of Telegram and keep in touch with a few people on it from other countries, thanks to the in-built translat...