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Monthly Archives: July 2006

IndianPad Update

28-Jul-06

Here we are with another ‘end-of-month’ update! We have some small changes to the layout and certain speed improvements all around the site

To view 18+ content, users must activate it on their user profile page. Click for details

New feeds page with all RSS feeds and now users can subscribe by email as well!
All links have […]

Where is the 18+ tab?

28-Jul-06

We recently had a discussion at this post where the majority of users recommended that we keep the 18+ content but move it from the front page of the site.
However, we were hesitant to hide/censor any content submitted by the users. So here is the compromise -

All registered users may choose to view the 18+ […]

IndianPad’s Meter Down

21-Jul-06

IndianPad went down a couple of hours ago. Once we got the site up we realized that the database was extremely slow. We had to take the site down an hour ago to fix that.
Everything seems to be up and humming now and we sincerely apologize for the down-time.

Ban on Blogspot and Other sites

19-Jul-06

Due to the recent ban on viewing blogspot sites from India we are routing all blogspot links through a proxy server. That should allow our users to view and blog without any restrictions.
Let us know if you find any bugs or errors in the proxy setup.
UPDATE- It seems the ban has been lifted. We are […]

Update - Speed Issues on the Site

06-Jul-06

This is in response to speed issues that were discussed in this post.
The root cause of slowdown were big videos and image files that are attached to the stories. However, they add so much character to the posts that removing them wasn’t an option.
We have now added some code to the front page so that […]

Site Speed Issues

04-Jul-06

Some users have sent us feedback complaining that some pages of the site are quite slow to load. We have isolated the problem to large images and videos that are embedded within the stories.
We are currently working on some solutions to avoid this. We apologize for the slow speed while we resolve this…