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Come get your tweet on
Come follow us at Twitter
I discovered Twitter through a good friend back in Fall 2006 and finally got around to creating a personal account in February 2007. A month later, Twitter went nuts at a little conference known as SXSWi. A month after that, it occurred to me that EBSQ should have an outpost on [...]
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Help us test our design
You’ve likely heard about the “embiggened” image thumbnail sizes at EBSQ. That change has inspired us to look critically at other features we use day in and day out with fresh eyeballs. Namely, yours.
We figured the best place to start is the beginning. We’re working with an awesome tool at fivesecondtest to get a better [...]
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Tags: call for artists, design, ebsq, fivesecondtest, UI, usability
EBSQ just got bigger
Well, sort of! We recently got feedback from a member stating that she was less than happy with how small her images were here compared to elsewhere. So, we took a critical look at our display sizes, as well as the thumbnail display sizes of other art and photography venues online. And she was right. [...]
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Tags: art, ebsq, news, siteupdate, update
Hey EBSQ, we’re turning to you to create an ongoing masterlist of EBSQ Art Bloggers which is published here as part of our blog.
Want to participate? Leave your name, your blog url, and your rss feed address (if applicable) in the comments of this post. Once we verify your EBSQ membership and the links provided, we’ll get [...]
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Tags: art, art blogs, artists, bloggers, blogging, community, ebsq
Good news and bad news
First the good news: EBSQ is up and stable. We haven’t seen any of the errors that necessitated our emergency maintenance last night. Yay!
The bad news is that email to and from EBSQ still isn’t functioning properly. Some functions, like lost passwords, registration confirmations when you sign up to use the site, and Art of [...]
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Our data center suffered a total network outage from approximately 7am – 1:50pm EST today. Needless to say, this is not how we wanted to start our week! We are now back online. Thanks for your patience today, as well as your entertaining tweets! And for those of you wondering, today’s additional drama involved my [...]
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Tags: ebsq, game on, siteupdate, thanks, twitter
Downtime aka I dont like Mondays
We’ve been experiencing connectivity issues since yesterday and full-blown downtime for all of our servers since ~7am EST today. We have just learned this is the result of a network outage at our ISP. We have been given no ETA on when we’ll be back up. Sorry for the rotten start to your week, folks. [...]
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Woops!
Please excuse us while we reboot; some services may be disrupted briefly. Thanks for your patience.
ETA: as of 00:10am EST we’re still working to bring one of our databases back on line. We hope to have things working as expected soon! Guess one of our servers has Sixburgh fever.
Like what you see here? We hope [...]
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Here we go Steelers!
My Football Babies
Originally uploaded by Aimka
EBSQ would like to congratulate our hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers for making it to Super Bowl XLIII. We look forward to them bringing home the first-ever Super Bowl 6-Pack. And if when they do, EBSQ will be giving away a FREE PERMANENT ACCOUNT to celebrate! Stay tuned tomorrow for [...]
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Tags: ebsq, permanent account, pittsburgh, steelers, super bowl xliii, stillers
from our ISP:
During the evening of Friday, January 23rd starting at 8:00pm Eastern Time through the early morning of Saturday, January 24th ending at 8:00 am Eastern Time we will be performing system wide maintenance.
This will involve upgrading and patching servers which will require the occasional restart of each server. Web and email services may [...]
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