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What’s up 2009!

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

So we thought it would be fun to see what people have been choosing as that all-inspiring “New Year’s Resolution”.  So we set up a site for people to post resolutions they plan to go after, resolutions that are already in play or even resolutions you would love to see someone actually pursue.
Go ahead post [...]

“Fix the Lists” — The People of 2008

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Our friends over at Patrol Magazine have started a couple different sites for their end of the year “Fix the Lists” campaign.

On “The People of 2008″ users are able to submit the people they feel have been most important this year.  Then as always with slinkset sites, you’re able to vote on who you feel [...]

Some more maintenance tonight

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

We should be back up shortly.
UPDATE: 12:20 AM PST - done. back up.

Maintenance outage later tonight

Friday, December 5th, 2008

We’re going to be having a brief maintenance outage later tonight. It’s short notice, but we’re ancy to get it over with so we can keep working on new features.
Update: Done for now. 2AM PST

img Tags in HTML

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

We released another small feature that we had ready behind the scenes and someone expressed interest in. You can now choose to let your users embed HTML <img> tags in comments and submission descriptions. Note that for now the “src” attribute for those images needs to end in an image extension (”png”, “gif”, “jpg” or [...]

Favicons!

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

If you’re tired of the default blue and green arrows you can now add your own favicon to your site. It’s under “Design” => “Advanced” => “General” and looks like this:

We’ve got some stuff we’re working on that will hopefully use this image in more places than just the browser favicon. So upload an image [...]

More arrow sizes!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

We made some decisions a while back that made it a pain to change the style of the up and down arrows. A few people perservered, but most were stuck with the default arrows. Well, we’ve just finished a backend overhaul of the design editor and it makes arrow changes a lot easier. So much [...]

Fix This, Barack

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

A really cool site got created early yesterday. Fix This, Barack is collecting suggestions for the new President Elect. The site has been very busy so far and already has a lot of good content. Hopefully someone will figure out a way to get Obama to take a look.

In related news, the site is running [...]

Better Explained — Share Your “AHA!” Moment

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Our friend Kalid over at Better Explained, has added the ability for his users to share their “aha!” moments by adding his own slinkset… links.betterexplained.

“There’s always a better way to explain a topic. Insights are fluid, mutable, and work for different people. I’m sharing the insights that helped me, hoping they’ll help you too.” –Kalid
This [...]

A Couple New Admin Options

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A couple small features made the site admin area today along with a new “Features” tab to keep things organized. Now you can force the links on your site to open in a new window and you can keep submission descriptions off the list pages (e.g. “Recent” and “Popular”).
Check it out: