OnlinePhim.net Blog

While our staffs are busy updating videos and rebuilding our database, our developers would like to continue testing and improving the site. Since the implementation of the social features, over half our viewers had been using them to make recommendations to friends, keep track of the videos they’re watching and contributing valuable feedback. In keeping with that spirit, we’d like to test out some new features and we need your help. If you have any unused account which has the following requirements, that you would like to give to us for testing purposes, please let us know. Remember to replace the example username with your own username, of course.

YouTube: unused account that is older than 1 year and in good standing, meaning no strike. To find out how old an account is, simply go to your youtube channel page and look at the joined  date on the left side of the screen.
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/user/onlinephimnet

Facebook: unused account that is older than 2 years with no warning. To find out how old your facebook account is, you will need to go to your email account and do a search for facebook emails and look for the oldest message you received from them.

Twitter: unused account that is older than 2 years with no warning. To find out how old the account is, simply go to info page and look at the created date.
Ex: http://twitter.com/users/show/onlinephimnet.xml

An alternative is simply checking your email account for the confirmation emails (or the oldest email) from those services. You don’t have to compare the exact dates, you just need to make sure they are older then the require dates and you’re all set. If you have accounts that meet those criteria and you’re sure you won’t be using it again, please let us know. Thank you very much for your help.

It’s been awhile since the last update. So here’s a quick overview of what happened since then.

1. The hosting server had a harddrive crashed on us. Thousands of people accessing the same machine at the same time will do that. That’s why thousands of videos are currently offline.
2. The staffs were super busy with various other projects.
3. Most of our volunteers were on vacations.
4. Low on funding. People don’t donate as much as they used to.  What ever little we get from advertising is countered by the fact that most people use ad-blockers or rarely click on ads.

We’re currently looking for alternative hosting options to rebuild our collection. We will add new video series first before retroactively update older videos. Stay tuned for more updates.

It’s been awhile since I’ve written the last blog post. Many things have changed and many have stayed the same. I’d like to take a moment to go over the current situation. Over the past 4 years, we’ve been bringing you latest in Asian entertainment. We came online when there were only a handful of websites available. As the traffic increased, we struggled to keep the site running. As anyone who have followed us from the beginning should know, we’ve tried pretty hard. If you’re a newcomer, you can always read the old posts if you have some times. At the peak of our service, we have about 2500 – 3000 people viewing videos, and about another 1000 viewing the forums … at the same time.

Of course, the landscape is much different now. We have thousands of clone sites and hundreds pop up every day. However, decent sites are still few and far in between. We’ve heard quite a few stories about getting viruses, spywares and bombardments of popup/popunder ads just by visiting some of those sites. Those whose appreciate us, continuing to support us for our effort.

Since the last time that we were down, we’ve received numerous emails about possible solution about our current growing pains. The majority of you suggested that we incorporate some sort of nominal fee to pay for the resources. Some suggested that we should limit the amount of time a visitor can view a video series as not taken up all the resources, and free them up for other people to view. Some offered to help with the techincal aspects and well as volunteer to update videos. All in all, we’d like to thank all for your suggestions and supports.

So, in order to keep the site running and for future growth, we have decided to incorporate a “premium” features for contributors. For those you are willing to help us out, you’ll get the following:

• Early access to videos. You can view videos a couple weeks before the general public.
• Skipping around videos. You will be able to skip past the intro, jumping back and forth within videos. (* depends on video type)
• Exclusive contents. You will get access to contents that will not be available to the general public.
• Access lab features. Test out new beta features that we are working on before we make them public.

More information will be posted soon. Meanwhile, we will move the server to a faster one by the end of the month. Stay tuned.