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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Holiday report

As of today, December 15th, 2009, Parents Guild has been live for just 3 weeks and the user base has been slowly and steadily increasing – we’re up to 63 registered users as of today. The question count has been increasing too – 75 questions as of this post. Most importantly, folks are coming back [...]

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First unknown user arrives via Google Search!

On Sunday, December 6th, we got our first random user clicking through from Google Search.  The person was searching for “is 2 years apart a good age difference for siblings“, and got to this question on Parents Guild:  What is a good age difference between siblings? posted by – ding ding ding! – Katja one [...]

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New discovery items on the homepage

Now that we have some actual content on the site (thanks to you!), we went ahead and added some links showcasing “Top Questions” and “Top Topics” on the homepage.  Let us know if these are useful or not, or if you’d hope for some other view into what’s happening on the site.

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Parents Guild stats

As of today, Parents Guild (still in beta) has: 50 registered users! 53 questions 211 posts (questions + answers + comments) 94 votes Since our “soft” launch on Facebook a little more than a week ago, the site’s gotten: 502 visits 3,886 page views 7.74 pages/visit 7:34 average time on site About half the traffic [...]

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Become a fan of Parents Guild on Facebook

We’ve created a new page on Facebook for Parents Guild where we’ll be posting updates and inviting feedback. If you haven’t already, consider becoming a fan of the Parents Guild page on Facebook to help show your support and spread the news of our existence to your Facebook friends! Thus far, the Facebook page for [...]

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We’re now fully utf-8 compliant.

I know, boring news, right.  What’s utf-8 anyway? To make a long story short, utf-8 is a way to encode characters into strings.  But, utf-8 has the extra added benefit that you can put pretty much whatever characters you want in there. This means support for questions, answers, comments and usernames in virtually any language [...]

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