Just a quick post to let you guys know that Driven By Boredom is finally unfucked. The site has been dealing with hackers and malware for months. The person who designed the new site retired from doing websites and hasn’t been able to help me fix it. Between trying to figure it out myself, trying to get my host to restore from old backups and frankly just me ignoring the problem, it’s taken forever to do something that apparently I could have solved in an afternoon.
A couple days ago I hired someone off Upwork who specializes in WordPress malware and he was able to fix my site, and the Dolfans NYC site in under 8 hours. My brother’s website, that I also host, was completely deleted, but fortunately we had an old backup. There was one other site that is completely deleted, and has been unrecoverable, but I think my old webmaster has a backup so I am hopeful. That site isn’t public facing anyway.
So yeah, what now? Hopefully I get a bunch of the photos I took in fucking January up. I have been promising these photos of Emma Starseed and Olivia Wildin’ for months so they are up next. I want to get some Vintage DBB posts up soon as well and maybe I will drop some fucking wildlife photos on you guys soon as I bought a long lens a few months ago just to photograph the critters in my backyard. Not quite as exciting as parties and porn stars but I still have a bunch of that shit coming soon too.
In 25 years of running this website I have had to deal with so much bullshit like this and yet I just keep doing it, post after post after post. At some point in the very early days of the site, my host just disappeared. He was just some guy who hosted a bunch of early blogs and he just decided to stop and didn’t tell anyone. As far as I know, no one ever found out what happened to him, but it was months before I got the site up and running again. In the mid 2000’s the site just became so hard to update that I just scrapped the whole thing and went to a Blogger account, but I only did like three posts and gave up. I took about a year off before moving to NYC and started DBB backup as a party photo blog, but that site became less and less functional until this version of the site was launched in March 2025. It’s always something, but we keep going and I am so glad to have my site back.
See you guys soon!