Just a quick note to let you know that we here at Parents Guild take your security seriously. Very soon after launching, a user commented that we didn’t use secure HTTP (https) for our login and logout pages. Well, I’m happy to announce that we’ve remedied that situation. We have an official SSL certificate, and [...]
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Let’s save a few bits
On Friday, Google announced that page speed is now taken into account when ranking pages. What does that mean? Well, it means that if your site is slow, you won’t be placed as high on their search results. We were getting pretty close to the beginning of the “red zone” according to Google Webmasters Tools, [...]
Daily Q: Why won’t my parents feed me 3 meals a day?
I beg. I claw. I sit there and stare them right in the eyes. They just look at me like “can you please get out of my way”. So, I jump down and look up and make some noise at them. They still don’t respond. I do my best impression of “hey, could you come [...]
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Comments have been fixed, and a quick note about cut & paste.
Hi, I believe that a couple users have had issues adding comments, and may have seen our “Ooops!” page. Be assured that your comments did make it to the system, and that the bug did not effect them. I’ve patched the code related to adding comments, so if you do see any more issues with [...]
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Read our blog from your mobile phone!
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve enabled special formatting of our Parents Guild blog for mobile phones. This means that when you come to this site on your phone, you’ll get a super-specially formatted version! Want to see what it looks like? We’ll you’ll just have to whip out your phone [...]
Autocomplete now working, for tags and ages too!
Just a quick note that I’ve fixed a small bug that we had that had temporarily disabled the auto-complete ability on the search box. In addition, while I was in there fixing things, I’ve implemented the much requested feature of having a working autocomplete for the 3 “tag” fields that are at the bottom of [...]
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Slightly better e-mail contents!
Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve just deployed notifications for new comments in the e-mail system. This means that when someone else writes a comment on anything you’ve written, this will be included in the e-mails that our system automatically sends. Previously, comments were somewhat “hidden” by the fact that you [...]
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Just launched: WYSIWYG editor for everything.
Hi faithful Parents Guild Blog readers! Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve just launched WYSIWYG editing for all questions, answers and comments. This means you’ll be able to easily put links, formatting, and images into your posts! This is one of the most requested features on UserVoice, so we’ve just gone [...]
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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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Reducing the amount of e-mail that we’re sending.
Hi early adopters! After today’s flurry of new signups, posts, and questions, we’re super-excited about the site, and we’re also very sensitive about the amount of e-mail that we’re sending you. To that end, we’ve reduced the frequency of the e-mails, and you should be getting far fewer than the over-zealous amount that we had [...]
