Archive for giltotherescue

• Answering more questions on spam fighting

  I’ve seen some great feedback to our Did your lens get a warning today? thread, and some great questions as well. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. I will do my... »

  

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• Final update on photo problems

  Over the past week, lensmasters have been affected by a widespread bug where uploaded photos would disappear and be replaced by an ugly grey image that reads “No Image... »

  

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• Traffic Stats Problem Now Resolved

  Today we were able to resolve the recent data corruption issue, and traffic stats are now fully back online. We sincerely appreciate your patience. »

  

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• An Update on a Traffic Stats Problem

  Early Wednesday morning we experienced a data corruption issue in our traffic stats database, which we tweeted about here. Traffic stats are still being recorded, but because of... »

  

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• Announcing Localisation Support

  Today we’re releasing our first attempt at providing support for non-US data formats. Specifically, we’re working to account for the differences in the ways numbers,... »

  

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• Friday Morning Database Maintenance

  Heads up! We’re going to take the Squidservers down for two hours tonight, from 12am to 2am EST (4am – 6am GMT). Just regular maintenance to further engooden the site.... »

  

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• Tuesday Morning SquidMaintenance

  After a week on our new servers, we’ve identified a few places where our database can be optimized to run a bit faster. In order to make these tweaks, lens creating and... »

  

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• Lensrank, Search, and Less Bugs!

  The bad news: during the course of our recent server migration, our lensrank algorithm was thrown out of whack for a few days. It led to some very strange rankings, and... »

  

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• Sunday Morning SquidMaintenance

  This Sunday between 5am and 10am EST (9am to 2pm GMT) we will be hard at work preparing Squidoo for its move to new servers. Which means? Faster, better, and steadier lens... »

  

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• Photo Uploads and Publishing Outage

  Tonight starting at 9pm EST we will be migrating all uploaded images to Amazon S3, a file storage service. This will help us keep costs down while also providing redundancy (if... »

  

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