Breaks From Weekly Secrets
Since its founding on January 1, 2005, the site has had new weekly Sunday Secrets with very few exceptions. On two occasions, Warren posted a personal video message rather than secrets. On two other occasions, Warren has taken a break and carried the same Secrets across a two-week period. On one Sunday, blogger problems caused a delay in the normal posting of the Secrets.
The site was not updated on the Sunday of July 1, 2007 while the address and instructions for visitors to send in their secrets was removed. Also notable was the deletion of a long-visible post, which contained contact information for Hopeline, a suicide hotline the site previously supported, and the story and picture of "Casie", a young woman who fought depression and found help through the site. When the site returned on Sunday, July 8, 2007, PostSecret was updated as normal, with the address and instructions for users wanting to mail in their secrets, as well as the Hopeline and "Casie" posts, all reinstated. The page for this week included a message from Warren explaining the recent events, confirming the comments section would stay unavailable and stating that he had needed a break from the project for a week, but that he hoped to go another 130 weeks before he took another. Sunday, August 12, 2007 constituted a break of sorts. In lieu of posting standard secrets, Warren posted the link to a video he had uploaded to YouTube entitled New PostSecret Mini-Movie, expressing his feelings about the project and promising that the next week would bring more secrets.
Warren took another break Sunday, December 28, 2008.
On October 11, 2009, he took a break posting a video and apology saying that he was busy touring, and urging readers to buy the book PostSecret Confessions on Life, Death and God.
On Sunday, September 16, 2007, the traditional PostSecret blog was gone. In its place was a new blog belonging to someone named "Nicole". It was suddenly and mistakenly shut down, as Blogger thought the PostSecret blog was a "spam blog". The error was fixed and Warren's site was put back up with the secrets from September 9. A few hours later, just minutes before noon EST, the website was pulled down again, this time displaying a Blogger error message. Shortly after noon EST, with the site having been restored, Warren posted an explanation. Not long thereafter, that day's secrets were posted as normal.
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