Los Angeles
Five Cycling Classes
Science says objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Keep your body moving and your dollars where the…
Tucson
$40 to Spend on Food and Drink
Like companions on a certain kind of rendezvous, some restaurants try to woo you with attract…
South West London
Illicit Sunday Tea for Two (£22) or Two-Hour Cocktail Class for Two (£30)
Are you a cool cat looking for a taste of someth…
Testing out CloudFlare
We decided to start testing out CloudFlare for site performance reasons. We like to tweak everything and try our hardest to make it work better. No guarantees of course that this will help, but it should improve the way the javascript is rendered on the page. CloudFlare also offers some protection from botnets and other [...]
Article Word Counts
We all have read great 500 word articles and articles that have 200 words of content and 300 words of filler. A good author can tell the difference and will produce 500 words that are great. We have implemented a new 350 word limit for all new submissions – this “floor” as we like to [...]
DonorsChoose contest update
Just a quick update – there are some more comments int he pending queue, we have been approving them as we are documenting them for contest entry – however – its pretty disappointing to see the results of the giving page. Perhaps the giving page type challenge that DonorsChoose offers is not the right kind [...]
Free $25 gift card to DonorsChoose (ended)
If you have never been to DonorsChoose – go there right now – then come back here and read this post. DonorsChoose allows people to pick from a wide selection of education related projects available for funding. You pick where the donation goes and whom gets impacted. Teachers and educators around the country can [...]
Submission Guidelines Updated and General Tips
We just published an updated version of the submission guidelines – this came after several emails asking for clarifications on policies and procedures. We tried our best to get the information in there. But a summary is below. Submit your own work, no plr, no sold several times articles, no content you just “rewrote” Use [...]
Database Downtime
Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by the database being down today (Sept 22), we resolved the issue shortly after being notified. The automated scripts we use to track and monitor uptime of the site were reporting that all systems were good to go. We have a programmer looking into changing those scripts so that [...]
Nginx bad Gateway error
If you experience a gateway error while trying to access any of the topic pages, please bear with us as this temporary issue is resolved. We had switched over to test out the services at cloudflare.com earlier today – and it seems as though it caused some conflicts. We have switched things back to the [...]
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