Email Notifications

A few weeks ago, our hosting provider moved us onto a new server. This caused our IP addresses to change, and we’ve been having trouble sending mail from them. People using gmail and hotmail shouldn’t be having problems, but those using email from their ISPs (comcast, roadrunner, verizon, cox, etc.) are. We’re taking measures to fix this, but in the mean time, if you’re having trouble and you’d like to get notifications, please sign up using a gmail address.

We apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks for your patience! Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.

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Email Alerts

Hi Everyone,

We’re sincerely sorry about our recent bout of downtime.  There were some problems with our host that were out of our control.  We’re still making improvements to the site, but hopefully we won’t see any more serious problems.  To avoid missing codes, please follow us on twitter!

I made some enhancements to our email notification system, and it appears to be working much better than it was before.  Code alerts should be sent out to everyone within a few minutes of the post being made (as opposed to several hours after).  If you haven’t already, you can sign up for e-mail notifications here:

http://sc-s.com/tools/email-notification/

Thanks everyone! Have a great week.

 — gc

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Some site updates

Hi guys,

There have been a few changes around here recently, and I wanted to shed some light on what’s going on.

  1. The auto-searcher has been removed. We apologize for the inconvenience.  It was not our decision.  SwagBucks has been obnoxiously persistent in their efforts to remove auto-searchers from prominent websites.  They hired a law firm to harass sites like us.  If we find a way to provide the service to you without incurring harassment from lowlife lawyers, it will be back up!
  2. Annoying disclaimers have been scattered throughout the site. The same lawyers were also harassing us about infringing on SwagBucks’ “trademark rights” by using terms like “SwagBucks” and “SwagCodes”.  Our use of these terms very clearly falls within fair use laws, but we have added disclaimers throughout the site to avoid legal trouble.  The lawyers claim that our visitors confuse our site with SwagBucks.  They don’t think you guys are very smart!  Lawyers aren’t nice people :(.  The big disclaimer that you have to accept to enter the site should only appear once a month, or until you clear your cookies.
  3. A new tool has been added! The toolbar message grabber has been added.  This tool downloads all recent messages from the toolbars across all active sister sites, as well as the SwagBucks toolbar, and displays them to you in a nice, easy-to-read list.  It only displays messages from the current day.  If there have been no posts, it will read “There have been no toolbar posts today.” If you have any questions or concerns regarding this new tool, please feel free to contact us!

That’s about it for now.  As always, thanks for your patience!

— gc

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