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User survey

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:31:35 +0100

OpenUsability.org is currently conducting a s9y user survey. What is s9y, you ask? It's the piece of software that is powering your blog at supersized.org. So, if you got ten spare minutes, please go ahead and check out the survey right now - it's short, fun and will enhance (your) user experience. Good karma garanteed. If you like s9y, take the test to help us make it even better. If you don't like s9y, take the test - so we can change s9y so you will like it :-)

Signups open again!

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:33:58 +0100

Due to the increased serverpoweer we received the other day, I just reopened the signup page of supersized.org. Go on, get your free blog :-)

More fiddeling around with the ads

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:58:58 +0200

Just to let you all know, I have removed the mandatory google-ads in your sidebar that was displayed all the time. Instead I have moved the ads to the detail-pages of each entry where they will be displayed right below the entry. The entries on your overview-page are ads free!

Please tell me what you think of this, as it is not final - I'm just giving different possibilities a try :-)

Also I have been thinking about a "reward" system: The more entries you write, the less ads are displayed. How does that sound? I don't want to upset my "power users" :-)

supersized.org update

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Sat, 27 May 2006 21:58:08 +0200

Writing a blog but nobody reads it? These times are over, as with every new entry you write, a screenshot of your blog will appear on each page of www.supersized.org. The screenshots are created via sitesnat.ch, a great place to make web screenshots/homepage thumbnails. :-)

I'll also add a dedicated page that lists recently posted blog entries at supersized.org and a search form, for your convenience. If you have other features to suggest, feel free to tell me about it.

Take care!

Update update

jannis@gmail.com (maint-admin) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:41:09 +0200

Hey folks, this is just a very short note before I leave town for a few days to let you know what has happened. All blogs hosted at supersized.org have moved to a new server. Both hardware and software have been changed and everything should feel way quicker now.

Also, I have prepared some real funky goodies that will be installed after I'm back. If you note any glitches, please let me know quickly.

During this update the WYSIWYG-Editor has been activated for all blogs. If you don't know what it is, you don't need to do anything. If you do not wish to use WYSIWYG-Editing, just go to the "Personal Settings" page in your administration-panel and adjust the "Use WYSIWYG Editor" setting.

And now: Please continue enjoying your supersized blog! :-)

supersized blogs attacked by trackback-spam

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:09:32 +0200

It had to happen sooner or later. There has been a rush of trackback spam on blogs hosted at supersized.org. As it lies in the nature of trackbacks to be submitted automatically, by a machine, the sophisticated anti-spam mechanisms that work so well for normal user-comments can not be applied.

I have therefore deactivated trackback-comments for all blogs on supersized.org, except for those, who have changed the settings for comments submitted via the API. Their setting is now "moderate" which means they receive an email for each trackback that has been made. The trackback won't appear on your blog until you have allowed it to be displayed.

Sorry for "removing" the trackback feature, but I assume you don't want to have 300 emails a day that contain a moderation request for trackback spam.

If you want to cope with that and enable your visitors to submit trackbacks, blog-configuration page, click "Configure Plugins", scroll down and select the "Spam protector" plugin and adjust the "How to treat comments made via APIs" setting.

UPDATE:

To make things clear, some more words. Only "incoming" trackbacks have been blocked. If you write an entry and reference another website or blog-entry, your supersized-blog will still send out trackbacks and announce entries on blog-syndication sites (if you want it to).

Rainer Safferthal is trying to abuse supersized.org

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:42:56 +0100

Comment Spam? Referrer Spam? Trackback Spam? No, Blog-Spam! That's what's up! Check out http://safferthal.supersized.org/, this guy named Rainer Safferthal (he's from Waiblingen, germany) signed up for supersized.org and used his blog to push his page-rank. Poor guy. He's also been abusing the services of log.ag, blog.de, blogspot.com, and blogg.de.

Hump the punk!

Here we go

jannis@gmail.com (Jannis) — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:56:49 +0100

I just found this cool site where you can host your own blog for free and signed up! Yes very funny. I will keep you updated about anything that happens here at supersized.org (mostly interesting for subscribers).