Updates from Zach RSS
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07:24:40 pm on July 7, 2008 |
The previous SquidTop help system was a little…inefficient, so we decided to set up a dedicated SquidTop help center where you may ask questions, post comments, and report bugs. This system is also used by several big companies and organizations such as Twitter and Mozilla.
Our support email address will still continue to work, but you’ll get an answer faster by using our new help system. The new help center can be found here, so please check it out and feel free to comment!
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05:07:23 pm on June 18, 2008 |
Today we had some more trouble with commenting that was due to trying out a new piece of anti-comment-spam software. It didn’t work too well, obviously, and the site’s comment system was out for a few hours today. Sorry about that. Guess we’ll have to figure out another way to fight off evil comment spammers!
Anyways, we have a new Bugs & Feedback form in the event of something like this happening again and we don’t notice it for a while. Feel free to report any bugs you find, ask any questions pertaining to the site, or just leave some feedback. We’d like to hear what you have to say so we can work to improve SquidTop and make it a fun and enjoyable Squidoo community. We just hit rocky places sometimes with the rapid growth of the site and dealing with new issues that spring up.
A link to the Bugs & Feedback form is also in the sidebar on the main site.
Thanks for your understanding and patience.
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03:01:16 pm on June 16, 2008 |
Just playing around with the main page’s theme a bit…let us know what you think and please feel free to offer some suggestions! Maybe we can come up with a neat-looking theme, or we can keep the old one if everyone prefers.
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11:13:37 am on June 16, 2008 |
Some people were reporting problems with comments being posted. I thought it was maybe just people weren’t approving them (comments go through a moderation queue that the owner of the blog has to approve), but that apparently wasn’t the case. After some frustrating time trying to figure it out, I discovered that there was a weird error going on with our spam captcha system (thing that keeps the spammers away).
I guess it wasn’t working right and comments were disappearing into oblivion. I’m really sorry if anyone was having trouble with this, and I’ll see if I can find these rogue comments somewhere but I’m not sure if it’s possible. Everything seems to be working now so comment posting is back to normal.
Once again, sorry, and thanks for using SquidTop.
Also, we have a support email address now, so if you’re having trouble with something on the site and need help shoot an email to help*at*squidtop.com (remove *at* with @).
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09:50:51 pm on June 4, 2008 |
Hello everyone,
The past few days SquidTop’s been bombarded by spammers and bots that have been taking over and posting their garbage. We apologize for that. It’s really a shame that people have to come in and spoil things for hard working folks like ourselves. Fortunately, we’ve been fighting them tooth and nail, and have a system in place that (hopefully) will keep them away.
With this problem taken care of, we can go back to working on some of the other things that aren’t working completely right, and add more cool new features to the site. Please bear with us.
Happy blogging!
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11:39:21 pm on May 20, 2008 |
SquidTop has been growing like mad since it was launched about two weeks ago, and we’re very pleased about the progress so far (and we hope you are, too!) SquidTop is becoming a nice little Squidoo community–a place where lensmasters can showoff their newest lenses, and brag about their Squidoo progress.
And, that progress accelerates greatly when you blog about your lenses on SquidTop. From what users have said, lenses they have blogged about here are getting indexed by Google very quickly. It seems that Google absolutely loves SquidTop, and returns to crawl it several times a day!
Blogging, when combined with Squidoo lensbuilding is powerful, and even the folks over at Squidoo HQ agree. And SquidTop is the way to do just that.
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12:23:45 am on May 15, 2008 |
After much hard work and customization, sidebar widgets are now available! You can now customize your sidebar with a (growing) selection of widgets. To customize the sidebar, just head into your blog’s admin dashboard and click the “Widgets” link in the top menu. We plan on adding a bunch of awesome new widgets in time, so hang tight and we’ll have some pretty cool stuff going on!
By the way, within the past hour or so there may have been some page load errors while we were working. I sincerely apologize for any problems this may have caused anyone.
Thanks!