It’s been a great week. We’ve gotten more than 2000 new users within the past week since we closed all links to the public and revealing them only to registered users.

It seems that everyone is enjoying our new social networking features. But I’ve noticed that not everyone is making use of the forums. We have some very interesting discussions going on over there and would like to encourage everyone to participate in them and create their own topics. The forums is not restricted to only Japanese content, we have a General Discussions section that allows you to talk about anything. Be it your new boyfriend or that bag you bought last Christmas. It’s nice to get to know everyone and form a community here.

http://jdramazone.com/forums/

A quick update on what we’ve been doing, I’ve been adding FileServe links to past uploads and bento is working on some upcoming features which we hope to add soon.

It will be really helpful if you can post on the forums any particular series you want on FileServe or HotFile. It takes less than 30mins to get them mirrored and I’m sure I’ll be able to get them up for you within a day unless I’m really busy.

Last but not least, we would like to thank all contributions made towards our January Cost. The current cost of running the site is $150 a month and any additional donations will be saved for future upgrades.

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We’ve moved! The previous server has been giving us some nasty downtime and we’ve decided to move to another host.

And it’s not just the server. Dronix has reworked on the whole site, fixing bugs and adding new features. The site is now visibly faster and stable.

The most important feature we’ve added to the site is Mingle.

Mingle is a social feature which is similar to facebook.
We now have a public profile, ability to make friends, post things to our walls (similar to Facebook) and private message each other.
The wall is located at everyone’s profile.

We have more exciting new features to add in the future. We hope to improve users’ involvement in JDZ.

One that came up during our brainstorming session is to allow users to create a personal list of their favourite dramas and share it with everyone on the site.

We’re working on it now and hope to release it soon.

And in conjunction with the move, both admins of the site will be changing their aliases.

icybergie will now be known as Aki and Dronix will be known as bento.

Feel free to add us as your friends and enjoy playing around with the new features!

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We wanted to phase out RapidShare a couple of months ago when RS changed their policy. But due to the requests of numerous users, we decided to continue uploading to Rapidshare.

But right now, we’ve decided to phase out RS again for a couple of reasons. Firstly, RS has a storage limit of 10000 files. We’re near that limit and have no intention of setting up another account. Secondly, as many of you may know, RS has stopped giving out points for months and our account is expiring soon. Lastly, and most importantly, we’ve seen a significant drop of users downloading from RS.

All future new series added on JDramaZone will not have RapidShare links

In replacement of RapidShare, we will be introducing FileServe. FileServe is getting extremely popular in recent months as many uploaders all over the world started uploading to FileServe ever since RapidShare disappointed everyone with their new policy.

We strongly advise all current RapidShare users to switch their premium accounts to either MegaUpload, Hotfile or FileServe

All current RapidShare links will remain but we will not reupload them in the event of any deletion by RapidShare. Any dead RS links will be removed.

This decision is final and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
icybergie
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JDramaZone Donation Drive 2010

I’ve been getting the same question from a lot of people recently. People have been asking why can’t JDramaZone make enough to fully fund itself every month despite having more than 200,000 views a month.

The thing is, RapidShare no longer gives out points, Megaupload only give a point for downloads below 100MB in size while all our files are hosted in 200MB parts and our earnings in hotfile is painfully slow due to the low number of users using hotfile. As for the ads we added a couple of weeks ago, we’re getting less than 20cents a day, which clearly isn’t an option to fund the site.

The monthly operation cost of running this site is around $70USD a month, $40USD if we hit enough points to exchange for free premium accounts on that month, which happens around once every 2 months. And this is excluding our domain cost once a year.

And we know that the server is getting painfully slow as the number of visitors grew. But we just do not have the means to upgrade to a Virtual Dedicated Server which costs at least $40USD a month. We do not have a stable income from the site nor any sponsors to fund such an upgrade. So we shall keep this idea off for awhile.

As for this Donation Drive, our only goal is to keep the site funded for at least the next 3 months which will be around $200USD. I am not keeping my hopes high, but any amount received will help us greatly.

If you wanna support us with a donation, please click on the button below. Any amount is greatly appreciated.

All donations will be used to pay for the operation cost and JDramaZone will continue to be a non-profit site.

We will be updating this post with every donation we receive to let everyone know the progress of the donation drive.

Thank you for reading and any donations made. Enjoy your JDramas.

Regards,
icybergie
JDramaZone

Donations
$10 – s********.s******@yahoo.com
$5 – w*****.1@googlemail.com
$10 – h********1@yahoo.com
$10 – t******g@pacific.net.sg
$10 – a********_*****3@yahoo.com
$10 – m****e@o2.co.uk
$5 – e********s@web.de
$80 – p*******g@yahoo.com
$20 – a*********3@hotmail.com
$1 – caro*****@centrum.cz
$10 – d****k@email.it
$0.50 – s****b@vip.syok.org
$3 – f*****_*****40@yahoo.com

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Hey everyone, quick update. Thanks to nonenix we have a new header. We’re still accepting new headers though. We’re thinking on changing the header every month or so, all depending on how many entries we receive, which sadly :( wasn’t … Continue reading →

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