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Congratulations Squidtop! We’ve passed …

Captain Squid — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:23:06 +0000

Congratulations Squidtop! We’ve passed the 200 Blog Mark!

New SquidTop Help Center

Zach — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:24:40 +0000

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!

Bugs and Feedback Form

Zach — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:07:23 +0000

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.

Trying Some Theme Stuff

Zach — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:01:16 +0000

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.

Weird Comment Error!

Zach — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:13:37 +0000

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 @).

Made some tiny layout changes to make si …

Captain Squid — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:06:12 +0000

Made some tiny layout changes to make sidebar titles easier to read and have them stand out a bit. Plus, we finally have a real logo! Let us know what you think of it!

Spam Attacks!

Zach — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:50:51 +0000

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!

Minor Updates Today

Captain Squid — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:07:56 +0000

Minor updates today, reduced the top tags and the ‘Fresh Squidtops’ lists as they were getting a little crazy with all the awesome blogging you guys are doing!

If you haven’t yet, make sure and add your e-mail address on your squidtop account to your account at http://www.gravatar.com so your own personal image shows up next to your comments and posts!

-The Captain

Squidtop Now on MyBlogLog

Captain Squid — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:26:38 +0000

SquidTop is now setup on MyBlogLog. If you currently have a blog on Squidtop and would like to be listed as a ‘co-author’ on the Squidtop MyBlogLog Community -

1) Become a member

2) drop a comment here with your squidtop blog as well as your mybloglog name and we’ll add you as a co-author!

Why Use SquidTop?

Zach — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:39:21 +0000

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.