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Category Archives: Site News
Getting tough with spam and fake users
11-Sep-07The spam situation on IndianPad is slowly coming under control as our filters learn from experience.
However, we have started noticing that some users are now creating duplicate accounts and posting links from forums that require registration before viewing content. From now on, all stories from such hosts will be disabled and marked as spam.
Also, starting […]
We have been working on a UWA widget that would work on various sites. Currently, netvibes and google support this along with some desktop widget companies. However, we are pretty sure that this will be picked up by other sites pretty soon as well.
Our widget is still in beta and we will be adding more […]
iPhone Calling iPadder of the Year
24-Aug-07Well, now that the iPhone has been hacked we can confirm that the top iPadder this year will get an iPhone (or a gPhone - if that ever comes out). We wanted to give it to everybody in the top 50 but our bank balance said otherwise :)
We are working on a calculation matrix for […]
What powers IndianPad?
09-Aug-07We get a lot of requests inquiring about our platform and traffic stats. Our architecture has evolved over the last year and is probably due for another upgrade!
Platform
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP
lighttpd
APC PHP Accelerator
memcached
Details
Our LAMP stack is pretty standard with some settings tweaked to match our hardware. We started on a shared server and moved to a dedicated server […]
What’s Coming Up?
10-Jul-07We have been recording all the feedback and suggestions that you guys have given on the site and we hope that our next update solves some of the most pressing problems you have been facing.
We plan to provide some beta previews over the next few weeks and will be releasing this update towards the end […]
Any link that is submitted from now on will be filtered against the list provided by Google using the ‘Google Safe Browsing API’.
We may get some false positives but overall we hope that this will help us reduce spam on this site. More details and a guide to the implementation will be posted here in […]
New Ads on IndianPad
19-Jun-07You may have noticed the minor design changes along with some new ads on IndianPad.
We have moved things around a bit so that we don’t invade any of your reading spaces. To do that we have reduced the square ads on top to 4 and moved the right sidebar to the top of the […]
New precautions against Spam
12-Jun-07There have been a couple of incidents on IndianPad where a rogue user/script has dumped a large number of stories/comments. They are usually cleared up within an hour but it can be very frustrating for our regular users who have to vote on these.
This was brought up in this discussion and we have decided to […]
Always Low Prices!
23-May-07Advertising option on IndianPad is now available to all users.
We are trying to follow Walmart’s advice of ‘Always Low Prices!’ In that spirit, we are starting the ads at a spectacularly low $1 CPM i.e. you pay only $1 for every 1,000 ad impressions. You may upload unlimited images under one campaign and will […]