^M1PJMK:register/create an account on http://1.JotHere.com http://1.JotHere.com/2741#M1PJMK

1. ^M1PJPW:Why?

   1. ^M1PJRQ:Free for life
   2. ^M1PLNY:Takes only about 10min to familiarize yourself with these startup instructions then only about 3min to actually do them; and less time as we improve the site.
   3. ^MA1RST:You are in good company!  On the right-hand column of every page, see  the bios some of the people posting here. And, if you desire, you can have a bio here, too!
   4. ^MA1ZZV:You’ll be helping improve this site, which needs it now especially being that it’s in alpha.
   5. ^M236K6:You’ll be getting Tremendous features, especially
      1. ^M1PLOK:allows you to comment, post, present your writings & work (on any topic!) to the whole world (or to whom-ever you want) and for free!, including:
         1. ^M2377N:in latest standard WordPress, the world’s leading web self-publishing platform, indeed as the Internet’s most popular Content Management System; PLUS get the best extensions for the CMS we can find  (including request extensions & likely get them, something you typically CAN’T do on WordPress.com)
         2. ^M236KY:private (as password-protected) writings, which you can then just keep to yourself, share to whom you want, or later publish to the world with a single click
         3. ^M236NO:instant reasonable ranking in Google Search and other public search-engines for your writings.
            1. ^M236Q6:For example, this JotHere post, which, for just a few days, served the the home page for an upcoming film, was then turned into and redirected to its own website (with its own domain name) for the film, so was the JotHere  post unnecessary? No! The post’s author reported searching for the film in Google found it on JotHere, but didn’t find it even though it now had it’s own domain name.  So even with this little JotHere post, that was what was getting the film known on Google!
         4. ^M237C5:aiming to pay authors over 50% of the profits from the publishing.
         5. ^MA1YN0:Unless your content is spam, you generally will be at no risk of ever your content being deleted or your account suspended.
         6. ^MA1SUT:And, should you ever need it, supports & encourages you to safely speak-up the truth, including basic whistleblowing.
            1. ^MA1SXH:to deliver true freedom-of-speech, notably to make it easy to honestly share, even publicly, controversial issues even where that could/would bring wrongful reprisal.
            2. ^MA1T14:including, unlike Facebook (which does most everything feasible to track you & identify exactly who you are, and readily locks-you-out-of-your-account if they even find any doubt you aren’t complying),
               1. ^M2P31D:You can have up to 10 accounts to operate under pseudonyms provided that’s not used to mislead.
               2. ^MA1T2S:You can have account(s) here where even your content host doesn’t know your exact nor legal identity, essentially also knows no more identity than what you tell.
            3. ^MA1Y14:Note Wikileaks is notably superior in hiding the sources of its content BUT also seems only suitable for super-controversial posts (as “leaks”) whereas
               JotHere well-supports main-stream text content.
      2. ^MA20DF:This section: much of it to be converted into a comparison table with the leading mainstream alternatives.

2. ^M2P2N0:Alerts!

   1. ^M2HQSY:This site design is not yet finished, but in Alpha-Testing

      1. ^M2HQY5:Important consequences include:

         1. ^M2HTNE:If you see the aesthetics here rough & unfinished and only few people commenting & authoring here, you’re right!, as that’s way it’s supposed to be in Alpha-Testing.

            1. ^M2HTFJ:This is by design: it allows the bugs to be worked out (so get the basic function working) BEFORE doing a lot of work on the aesthetics and inviting many more people.
            2. ^M7CH2W:This makes you the user, especially an author here, also an alpha-tester, and we need that help, so thank you!
         2. ^M2HR44:There are still number of things to be fixed, including, roughly in order:

            1. ^M7BF7N:Certain common email domains (including seemingly @yahoo.com) don’t yet register –see that link for details

            2. ^M33XGU:Note WordPress bug: when a user is logged in, (the status bar at the top of the user’s window) covers the first line(s) of what the user just (opened via a URL with an anchor scrolling the window to that point on the page) –see that link for details

            3. ^M2HRHO:http://2.LoveRules.Info renaming to http://1.JotHere.com and, as that linked page says, it’s almost done.

               1. ^M2HRMS:In the meantime, just manually replace “2.loverules.info” with “1.JotHere.com” whereever you write it, as the rewrite works now & is the future style.
                  1. ^M2HTI5:Still if you don’t do this, that’s still no killer, as the former will always still auto-forward to the latter for full backwards compatibility.

            4. ^M2HRQ0:The site theme & layout should be improving dramatically.

               1.  ^M2HRVP: example quote(*”black screen” (of JotHere.com)- yes, that’s debatable, but intentional after considerable thinking: see & post comments on http://1.JotHere.com/717#LXNPQ5 , including, if you still don’t like it (as it still reminds you of “DOS”, and that’s still a bad thing), see (the comment there on overriding the theme choices http:/1.JotHere.com/717#comment-194 ).) -from comment
               2. ^M2HTVA:This is being second as “form must follow function”, including this site is novel (especially all-topic) and must be scalable, so insuring these technical capabilities (a solid transmission & engine & wiring –if a vehicle) must often come first before aesthetics (of fully designing & attaching the content formatting (“the body work and paint job”)).
               3. ^M2HRRM:For the long-term, don’t worry so much about your  content being within a site where you don’t like the site theme & layout if you smartly store your content here
                  1. ^M2P2RW:Why? Here:
                     1. ^M2HSRG:it’s in WordPress, so the site formatting that can be changed & improved readily, often without even changing 1 character of your content.
                     2. ^M2HSSH:the site theme & layout should be improving dramatically -see that.

            5. ^M2HQYT:While anyone can comment & author here, the number of authors here is and must-be a small group until all the bugs out and the polish is on!

               1. ^M7BFZT:most actual commenters & posters here are by personal-individual (as in-person) invite by the admins or other authors & commenters.
               2. ^M2HR2P:No marketing of the site has been & is being done yet besides the most basic: being listed in search engines and business cards for administrators plus limited word-of-mouth.

   2. ^M1PJYJ:By any use of this site especially having an account, you agree to the terms-of-service including:

      1. ^M1PMKR:permanently deleting any prior content is not allowed except by site administrators.

3. ^M1PK8A:Steps to do, in order:

   1. ^M1PKKO:First prepare to do the next step (minimally register for this site)

      1. ^MIN1KA:After you do this next step (minimally register for this site), DON’T FORGET TO COME BACK AND DO THE REMAINING STEPS starting with the subsequent step as nothing will remind you to do that.
      2. ^MIN18B:Initially all content you add will be marked as pending and not shown to the world (but show to you I recall) until an author or higher-level approves your content; and it seems after a few of these manual approvals, your content is then auto-approved.
         1. ^MIN3PU:Why it this way? as WordPress sites are flooded daily by web spambots (making machine registrations & posting spam) so for now it takes a human to tell if it’s another human really posting.
      3. ^MIN1BE:Initially you will only be able to make comments plus update your profile; but later steps get you more ability.
      4. ^M2P2GX:For entering your info, note:
         1. ^M7BIGC:Certain common email domains (including seemingly @yahoo.com) don’t yet register
         2. ^M1PKDE:it’s allowable to have up to 10 accounts to operate under pseudonyms; each must have a unique email address.
         3. ^M7BEO4:We never reveal your email address (except in cases of serious abuse as like a spam-bot)
         4. ^M1PJS4:due to standard latest WordPress, at any time, the user can change everything about his/her account except not presently the username
      5. ^M2OZVH:be sure to sign in at least once using the generally-excellent password the site will email you.
         1. ^M2OZYT:Right after you sign/log-in here,
            1. ^M2P0ET:PLEASE do BOTH (strongly preferred) else neither:
               1. ^M2P034:ask your web browser to remember this your password  
               2. ^M2P03K:insure this (and every device for which your password will be remembered) has e a secure screen-saver accessible to just you, meaning when you direct your device to “Lock” and after about 1 to 15 minutes of inactivity, the device’s screen-saver kicks in where then, to be generally usable, the device requires a password which only you could enter in practice, so protecting all this and all our other logins & data accessible from it.
            2. ^M2P0FB:Which to do?
               1. ^M2P0UN:BOTH is STRONGLY preferred, as even to reply to a conversation of comments (kind of a like a chat session), without this you would having to be logging in, possibly for every reply, which is typically a huge impediment from using this to its full capability, especially given this site is designed for a user to author on it times per day; plus doing both will also insure you safely remember the passwords of other sites as well. However,
               2. ^M2P0V2:wherever you can’t always if you can’t always insure the device you use will have this protection, then don’t have the browser remember your passwords.
      6. ^M2P0WF:Changing your password here (from the one this site automatically gives you) is NOT recommended with limited exception
         1. ^M2P1U3:Why? The passwords generated by this site are already maximally secure including even a WordPress administrator can’t see them, so any other password (besides another completely random one very-likely not used anywhere else) would be less secure, possibly notably less secure (as a password which you use on multiple site or just a few normal words)
         2. ^M2P1PE:the exceptions:
            1. ^M2P17N:you feel this password has been compromised, or could-be compromised (as when someone else has access to your email –extremely bad)
            2. ^M2P1A5:You can’t effectively use the browser (or other “wallet”) to remember your password as you you are using devices which don’t give you a secure screen saver  and you don’t have a browser or other electronic “wallet” to portably store & ideally-enter your passwords, so then you need to have a password you can remember in your head.
               1. ^M2P1GB:In this case, try to choose a password which somehow includes in part the site name, so you won’t be using the same password on multiple sites.

   2. ^M7BEUB:Click & do: “minimal registration“

   3. ^M1PKM7:“If you want to publish full-posts, not just comments”, click & do that

   4. ^M1PKZ7:As time permits, complete your user profile

4. ^M1PL0R:Some near future plans:

   1. ^M1PL13:Especially to encourage comments, auto-login (no account creation required) via
      1. ^M1PL2C:Meetup.com
      2. ^M1PL3C:OpenID
      3. ^M1PL3L:Google
      4. ^M1PL3T:Facebook
      5. ^M1PL42:others
   2. ^M1PL6K:Ability for each user to specify exactly who can access each post (without having to pick & share a password)
   3. ^M237M3:Ability to do Meetup-like function (per here), including:
      1. ^M1PL4G:User profiles which are more advanced including similar to those on popular social networks.

5. ^M1PJLX:Additional document history, in order

   1. ^M1PJMJ:Rather than repeat this info each time, created this post with new ID M1PJMK
   2. ^M237GS:Updated Version 1.1 (from 1.0) by adding “^M236K6:Tremendous features,” plus 6 sub-points (all but 1 new)
   3. ^M2IBQR:now chose “Stick this post to the front page” as we want people to join & the right way; this might be necessary at least until the “Register” link goes to here.
   4. ^M33W8D:Version 2.1
      1. ^M33WBE:To “M1PK8A: Steps (do in order)” made significant improvements, including:
         1. ^M33WCJ:/809#M33VWG
   5. ^M33XKV:Version 2.2: added “M33XGU: Note WordPress bug: when a user is logged in, (the status bar at the top of the user’s window) covers the first line(s) of what the user just (opened via a URL with an anchor scrolling the window to that point on the page) ”
   6. ^M4LIDQ:Updated M1PKM7 to make the link visible (theme  needs fixing).
   7. ^M4LIXM:updated 1st line to match that of http://1.JotHere.com/3142#M3UBHA.
   8. ^M7BUJ5:Considerable rewriting & reorganization including adding a “Register” step
   9. ^M7BULR:Updated document header & title to latest format, including cutting redundant per new /3347#M7BTWO.
   10. ^M7CEXA:Redirect the login page’s requests to register to this page where we can give additional information
       1. ^M7CEXV:about 1hr ago, looked at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/custom-login but didn’t find any which did this
       2. ^M7CES8:So did it raw: edited wp-login.php adding comment /*M7CEDN: global replace q(wp-login.php?action=register) with q(2741#M1PJMK): 4 occurrences */ and doing what that said.
          1. ^M7CEZ8:saved the original version to .bak/M7CE7K/wp-login.php
          2. ^M7CF2K:This should probably have to be redone when WordPress is upgraded.
   11. ^M7CJC1:Reviewed by user Bill and effectively incorporated his suggestions.
   12. ^M7CJE7:Now that redirects to here are done  (M7BULR and M7CEXA), unset this page as “stick this post on the front page”.
   13. ^MA20NQ:M1PJPW: Why extended.
   14. ^MA20O8:Formatted IDs to all be present standard.
   15. ^MIN1PX:This is being 1st edited by WordPress 3.5+ so a-tags are semi-corrupted (collapsed) until that’s fixed.
   16. ^MIN235:Seeing Miles & others register for here per now SCaLE listing‘s main post (asking for carpools  such), updated M1PK8A & following  to notably correct reg to miss subsequent steps, prefixing & adding MIN1KA &  MIN18B & MIN1BE; pst2013.02.22Fri1307.