Please note that the site is currently under reconstruction. Only some sections are available. Functionalities for most pages are partial and limited. To go to the Wrestling Personals, click here. For any other sections of the site, click here.

Site News

Wednesday March 11 2020 - Registration open!	BSP site news
Profile registration is finally open. New profiles can now be created. There might still be a few minor issues, but I am ironing them out as fast I can. If you wish to create a profile, try this link: https://www.bearhugger.net/profile/register.php Other minor upgrades include a notification on log in when you get new messages and the ability to delete individual sent and received messages when viewing your conversations. The next projected updates will be the re-implementation of favorites and admirers, followed closely by the recommendation system.
Sunday March 8 2020 - Links	Links
Very minor update: Links are now back online. For now, you can only search, view and browse links. You can also vote on them, but you won't be able to add new ones yet. I didn't had time to work on profile registration this week-end. However, there's an upcoming Easter week-end where my workplace is giving me two days off, so hopefully, I'll be able to work on it during that time.
Sunday March 1 2020 - More standard stuff	Wrestling personals
You can now do the following things to your wrestling profile: - Change e-mail address - Change password - Disable your profile - Delete your profile Should you choose to delete your profile, you will still be able to re-activate it in the next 6 months. The next thing I will tackle is registration.
Monday February 24 2020 - Picture management ready	Wrestling personals
You can now upload new pictures to your profile. Yay! Note that I now support both JPG and PNG file formats. You can also edit existing pictures. By editing, I just mean sorting them in the right order, removing the ones you no longer like, pick the picture you want to set as your primary picture and finally, decide if your main picture should randomly rotate with the other images in your gallery. I've also added more options to edit when you modify your profile: orientation, sport level and homepages can now be edited. Note that orientation and sport level are only shown when users are logged in. I'm thinking that it's information that is a bit private and should only be shown to other members of the site rather than the general public. My next projected upgrades are: password change and e-mail change. E-mail change will be a tough one because I will now require users to verify their e-mail first before doing the change. I honestly get too many fake e-mail changes. That being said, when I will get to the part where people can register again, I will also require registration e-mails to be validated first because I see a lot of people enter typos in their e-mail addresses.
Sunday February 16 2020 - Locations and password request + db skeleton	BSP site news
Here is what's new today for each section: Wrestling Personals - Profile locations can now be edited - Passwords can be requested if you forgot your password Uploads - Ratings can now be added and changed - Product links have been restored Database - Main skeleton restored: search and view entries, read stories, rate them I know progress has been a bit slow. Still, I need to take a little break next week-end.
Saturday February 8 2020 - Profile modifications... finally.	Wrestling personals
Here's what new this week for the Wrestling Personals: - You can now edit your profile. (Editing is still limited: you can't edit e-mail and location yet, but things like age, description, name, weight, height can be modified) - Multi-deletion of messages is now supported. My next objective is to work on editing of location (city, state, country) and of e-mail addresses. For uploads, the only thing I added was the hit counter. Sorry, I'll try to have the voting system and the upload of new images ready.
Saturday February 1 2020 - A few more tweaks and the barebone of bearhug uploads	Wrestling personals
So during the week, I added a few more functionalities to the Wrestling Personals: - I added access to the picture gallery of each wrestler. - E-mails are now properly displayed depending on the setting you chose (hide from everyone, show to everyone, show only to members or show only to favorites) - I added buttons to go to the next and previous pages for messages, profile results and threaded conversations. - I fixed the login date calculations which were messed up earlier because of timezones. I'm still using Eastern time, so it's not really fair for other people in other time zones. I'll eventually have a setting where you can set your own time zone in the future. Yes, I still need to work on profile modification, picture management, picture uploads for your profiles, profile creation, password request and profile deletion. This is usually the bigger chunk that is highly affected by security, so I expect these to take quite some time before they are finalized. After that, there's still the favorite/admirers and recommendation system I need to restore. An Advanced Search is also needed and that one is bigger than anything else ;) For now, if you use the standard quick search, you can put either the name OR the city OR the state OR the country OR a word in the user's profile. It's better to work with just one word. Don't put several things at once or else the search will return nothing. This is not Google :P For those who missed the Bearhug Uploads, I added the barebone search and re-uploaded the standard non-locked images. More will come soon. I'm working as fast I can :)
Sunday January 26 2020 - Limited access to profiles	Wrestling personals
Yes, I'm still alive. I know it's been a month. I've been a bit busy lately, so all I could make available are a couple of things: - Login and logout - Read and send messages - View profiles (only some information show up - I'm still working on showing the rest - Delete messages - Search profiles The multi delete does not work yet. I'm trying as hard as I can to bring the site online, so please be patient with me. You can try to log in by clicking here. Please report any issues you find by sending them to bearhug_@hotmail.com.
Thursday December 19 2019 - Site down... :(	BSP site news
The site was attacked and I unfortunately have to bring it down for an undetermined amount of time. Don't worry, I am not throwing in the towel yet. I've worked hard in the past 20 years to maintain this site and there will always be malicious individuals that likes to damage the work of others just for the heck of it. At this point, it's more a question of time, knowledge and self-training for me to catch up with the latest technologies and information security, then come up with a redesign for the site. I am sincerely sorry for not being able to keep the site up for longer. Think of it as a store front where somebody throws a stone through the looking glass and shatters it. Then the owner repairs it and somebody else throws a molotov cocktail... The reality is that web spaces are as vulnerable, if not to say, more vulnerable than public spaces. I will try to post details and updates in the months to come. Please bear with me. If you wish, you can contact me at bearhug_@hotmail.com for more information, but please keep in mind that I have been very busy lately due to other issues, so my replies might be delayed. Yours truly, Your Bearhugger.net Webmaster