IndiaSphere Blog

Change!

feedback — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:50:21 +0000

Change is in the air! Obama winning the US elections has inspired us here at IndiaSphere. Today we are launching a new look for the site, hope you like it. The Adult section has been decommissioned, IndiaSphere will no longer accept adult content. There are a few changes that aren’t as visible but under the covers that will help in keeping the site secure and running smoothly.

State of IndiaSphere

feedback — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:18:03 +0000

Ok, there’s a lot that’s been going on so it’s time for an update.

1. Saturday, Sept 20th - Moved to a Dual Xeon server in hopes of speeding up the site.

2. Sunday - data center network outage; site was down for 5 Hours

3. Monday - Apache down due to segmentation faults; investigating issue with PHP cache.

So as you can see there were some growing pains. Constantly monitoring the site now so it should stay up.

SPAM / Abuse control

feedback — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:48:17 +0000

Couple of features implemented for Spam and Abuse control on IndiaSphere user submissions

Only 3 submissions from same site/blog in 30 minutes
Banned URLs list for filtering out submissions for spam sites

Hope this makes everyone’s visit to IndiaSphere more interesting.

Site Broke

feedback — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:14:01 +0000

Had to restore from last night’s backup. Sorry for the lost stories. Looking into getting a more powerful server. Stay tuned.

IndiaSphere in the Top 1000 sites Indians Visit

feedback — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:22:01 +0000

According to Alexa, IndiaSphere traffic rank in India is now 851. That means we are among the Top 1000 sites people from India visit everyday. This is great news and we hope to keep moving up in that ranking. Again, thanks for all our loyal users for their support.

Login failures on IndiaSphere

feedback — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:02:23 +0000

Site was having login failures today for about 5 hours. Sorry for the outage. There was a problem with the database crashing. Everything should be back to normal now. Please let us know if you still have problems logging in. Thanks for your patience and continued support.

New Look is live!

feedback — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:00:56 +0000

As promised IndiaSphere has a new look. Hope you like it. Lots of new features as well to augment the User experience.

Here’s some of the new features at IndiaSphere

Better Voting Widget that allows both up and down votes
Voting on comments
New submission form, Ajax enabled, better URL verification, and trackbacks
Upgraded Bookmarklet
User Karma system
User Thumbnails

IndiaSphere - makes aggregation social!

Happy New Year

feedback — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:42:39 +0000

Happy New Year to all of you IndiaSphere loyalists and visitors

IndiaSphere is almost a year old! It’s been a great ride. The site has grown really nicely and hope that will continue in the new year.

You can expect some changes in the near future, one big one that everyone will notice is the new UI that should be ready in the next week or so.

The User Submission section has seen tremendous popularity, we will be introducing a better submission forms that handles duplicate submissions better, also will introduce new Reddit style up/down voting widgets instead of just voting up.

The Directory section saw growing amounts of spam, it was becoming too hard to handle and so the directory has been removed. Sorry to the legitimate users of the directory, hopefully you will take advantage of the new user submission section and post your stories there.

Again, Happy New Year everyone. Hope you keep coming back and tell your friends about IndiaSphere.

IndiaSphere - Tools

feedback — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:44:39 +0000

Check out IndiaSphere Tools

New: Bookmarket and Google Widget!

Launching Video section

feedback — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:57:31 +0000

Happy to announce the launch of IndiaSphere Video section, already indexed over a 100 videos. Enjoy!