We went offline yesterday due to a small fire at our hosting facility. This trashed our server and also corrupted our database backups.
We had to build a new server and replace data from a database that is approx 20 days old. We are extremely sorry for losing all the stories posted during that time but […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Fire at our Hosting Facility
31-Dec-06We encourage users to post stuff they find around the net or stuff they write on their blogs. However, we are seeing a lot of posts that have no descriptions or a very bad description.
We have added a new option for our users to vote down these stories and this has been very originally named […]
Vote + Karma = Votama
13-Dec-06OK, the title is a bad joke but we just wanted everybody to know that karma is now being used to promote stories to the front page. However, vote count is still very relevant.
As of today, a story needs a karma of 50 OR 7 registered votes to appear on the front page. Please note […]
New Search Engine Features on IndianPad
12-Dec-06We have recently overhauled our Search Engine and now we offer multiple new features that our users can use to enhance their searches and find exactly what they are looking for.
” : A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (‘”’) characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.
+ : […]