Archive: May 2008
Greetings everybody! I would like to address an issue that occurred yesterday evening and continued throughout the night. The segmentation system in PayPerPost experienced a glitch that for most bloggers caused their number of qualified opps to go down. We have been able to pinpoint the cause of this and we are currently running a process that will fix this problem. You may experience some more oddness with the segmentation this morning while the process finishes running. We should have everything back to normal by lunch time today. I'll make another post to let you know when everything is good to go. And we apologize for the inconvenience.
Hello again postie people. This is just a little note to let you all know that we will be rolling out a fix tonight. At 10:00 EST the site will go down for about 10 minutes while we deploy new code to fix the blogger dashboard stats. This patch will correct the figures seen on the blogger dashboard for "Have been Paid", "Will be Paid", "Sent to Charity", etc. This bug never affected the actual earnings. It was only a display issue on the dashboard.
You might be asking yourself, how does this affect me? Well it's simple! If you have a reservation that expires around 10:00pm tonight EST, make sure to get your post in a few minutes early so you don't miss out on your reservation while the site is down. Please be sure to click on the "Contact Support" link after logging into your account if you have any questions.
We just performed our weekly rollout of changes to SocialSpark. You can see the full list by clicking on this link.
The notes for the latest release of SocialSpark can be found at the Izea Boards following this link.
There was an error in our last rollout of new code for SocialSpark that affected the ability for new users to create avatars.
A fix was released that corrected a problem where corrupted image uploads did not hang any following uploads for that user. This, however, stopped any new users (more specifically, any user that did not previously have an avatar) from being able to upload images.
After spending most of the night correcting and testing the issue, we have just deployed a fix for this. All new users should now be able to upload an image to use as their avatar.
We made another fix release of SocialSpark this morning. As always the notes on just what got addressed in the release are over in the launch history section of the Izea Boards.
Soon after we rolled out this fix, we were able to quickly identify a problem with it. We have undone the rollout and will be correcting the problem so we can roll it out again in the near future. I apologize for the inconvenience and just want to clarify that this fix did not roll out tonight as planned. I'll keep you all updated when we plan the next rollout.
Hey there postie peeps!
I just wanted to drop by and let you all know that we have received some tickets about the stats on your blogger dashboard being inaccurate. The problem caused the numbers for "Have Been Paid", "Will Be Paid", etc... on the blogger home page to get out of whack from time to time. Thankfully, this problem never did affect the actual figures in your payouts. We've been working on the fix for quite some time and we are finally ready to release it tonight. We'll have to bring the site down for about 10 minutes. This is going to happen at 10:00pm EST. If you have a reservation that expires around that time, you should try to get it in a few minutes early so you don't miss out!
