http://squidtop.com Custom Squidoo Blogging Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:07:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the continued campaign against the evil spammers here at SquidTop, I've just done a massive purge of spam comments from everyone's blogs. I've also disabled the 'trackback' functionality, so you should hopefully see much less of it in the future too. Let me know if you have any problems or ... http://squidtop.com/2009/09/22/purging-the-spam-from-squidtop/ Hey all! Just an update to let you all know that we took the flamethrower to the spam that was starting to crop up on Squidtop. We're in the process of deleting nearly 30,000 (!) fake blogs that have been started in the last two months so squidtop might not load ... http://squidtop.com/2009/07/22/30000-little-pests-exterminated/ Hi folks, We're going to do a massive upgrade of the entire site and we also plan on adding a few new features and such. So, the site will be down for a wee bit tonight while we work on this. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it will be ... http://squidtop.com/2009/04/09/upgrade-time/ A couple days ago our new server was completely hammered by people who have nothing better to do than attack people's websites...and we had some trouble getting that taken care of. We apologize for the long time the site was offline, but it seems that everything will be okay ... http://squidtop.com/2009/03/30/sorry-about-the-massive-outage/ Hey all, We are planning to transfer SquidTop over to a faster and more reliable server. The site will be offline for 1-2 hours at most while we transfer things over. Please bear with us! Thanks much! http://squidtop.com/2009/03/17/squidtop-server-dance/ Someone just brought a bug to our attention that was making it difficult to register. We've tracked it down to the re-captcha we were using and have currently disabled it. Blog creation for new users should be fully functional now. We'll work on finding some other way to secure the signups ... http://squidtop.com/2008/10/09/bug-hunting/ Hey all, Was just wondering if anyone had some suggestions for improving SquidTop. We'd like to make this as friendly and easy-to-use as possible, so if you're having any problems or have any ideas to make the site better please feel free to let us know here and we'll work ... http://squidtop.com/2008/08/31/suggestions-for-squidtop/ Yay, we are (almost) done with SquidTop 2.0! Thanks for staying with us through this... Some new features include: Upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 A working SPAM system Theme changes (more info below) We decided to change the theme for SquidTop, as well as provide a selection of themes for you all. To check ... http://squidtop.com/2008/08/24/new-squidtop-features/ SquidTop's going down this evening sometime for a little while so we can make some changes and upgrades. Just so you know. That's all... http://squidtop.com/2008/08/24/squidtop-downtime/ Okay, we've finally had time to sit down and add a Squidoo Lens for Squidtop. It includes a plexo with a list of Squidtop Blogs on it, so if you haven't gone and added yours to the list yet, do it! I added a few that were on the front page ... http://squidtop.com/2008/07/27/new-squidoo-lens-on-squidtop/