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The history and development of GFF

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Being on Instagram Jan 7. 2021 Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!	A heartfelt thank you! Dec 19. 2020 Money It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming! Thanks
Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and clicks on links in it	Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher! Nov 28. 2020 Merger The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content. Read about it here

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Blog entry Being on Instagram Jan 7. 2021 Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!	Article A heartfelt thank you! Dec 19. 2020 Money It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming! Thanks	Nerd alert Blog entry Counting newsletter openings and clicks Dec 5. 2020 I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and clicks on links in it
Article Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher! Nov 28. 2020 Merger The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content. Read about it here	Article 25 years online! Feb 17. 2019 Celebrating You won’t find many web sites, which have been running for 25 years, and I seriously doubt that any current fly fishing sites have a quarter century long history Read the story here	Blog entry Do you like this site? May 6. 2018 If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
Blog entry Green storage Apr 16. 2018 My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.	Blog entry The new GFF HQ Feb 18. 2018 We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.	Blog entry The decline of GFF Jan 4. 2018 No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.
Nerd alert Blog entry Preserving old URLs Jun 25. 2017 I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.	Blog entry To like or not to like Jun 3. 2017 Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.	Nerd alert Blog entry Getting review ratings shown on Google Apr 30. 2017 Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly
Nerd alert Blog entry Node number 50,000 Apr 4. 2017 Just the other day the Global FlyFisher crossed the 50,000 node nid mark in the database. GFF is a large site, but still far from any boundaries set by Drupal.	Article 2017, here we come Dec 31. 2016 New Year So another year has passed... and what then, did that year bring for the Global FlyFisher... and what about 2017? A little status article.	Nerd alert Blog entry Fighting spam on GFF Sep 2. 2016 Here's a rundown of the different things I do to keep spammers from posting on the Global FlyFisher

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