You’ve probably noticed some strange activity here at GrindEFX over the past few weeks, this was due to an attack on our server. It has taken a while, but we are back up and running now and ready to pick up where we left off. If you received any warnings about malware or viruses on the site, don’t worry, we have given it a thorough check and it is now clean as a whistle.

Apologies for the lack of communication throughout all of this, we’ve now moved the site to a new server and are hopeful this will not happen again. Thanks for your patience!

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on some changes for GrindEFX, these changes were put into place this week.

First let me introduce our newsletter. As you can see, on the sidebar there is a form where you can enter your email toreceive daily updates from us. This daily email will include all the posts that day and links to view them on the site. After entering your email and clicking ‘Subscribe’, you will be sent an email with a confirmation link. This is a feature that has been heavily requested since we started the site.

And secondly, you might have noticed a ‘Log In’ section on the sidebar. You can now register with GrindEFX and upload information about yourself, as well as an avatar. Currently this will save you filling out out the form when leaving comments and will give us more of a personal connection to our readers. In the near future though we will be adding lots of special privileges and features for registered users. Registering with GrindEFX will automatically subscribe you to the newsletter, so there is no need to subscribe to the newsletter if you register.

We really encourage you to use these new features in order to get the best out of the site. And please send us any feedback or suggesstions you have!

Have a good weekend.

- Jay