We've officially opened up the Beanstalk and Sifter integration to everyone. This integration has also laid the groundwork for write-access to our API, but that's a story for another time. To celebrate the launch of the integration, we're also running... Continued…
On Friday morning we made a mistake that led to data loss for everything created during an eight and a half ten hour window. Naturally, this isn't something that we take lightly, and we want to be entirely transparent about... Continued…
Over the weekend, we made several upgrades to Sifter's security. The short version is that every page and account is now served over SSL and all cookies are now secure as well. The only thing about the change that won't... Continued…
It's time for a status update. Recently, the redesign and the API have been the focus of all of our attention. There's still plenty more work to do on both, but we wanted to start marching towards the new design... Continued…
It's been a little while in the making, but today we're officially launching the Sifter API. It's focused and simple, but that's where you come in. Instead of just developing and launching a massive API, we want to start small... Continued…
After some reliability issues with a service provider, we're temporarily disabling email replies until we can be confident that your replies will work without any problems. We wanted to explain what went wrong and what we're doing to improve. Continued…
It's time to return to our regularly scheduled status updates. We're multitasking pretty heavily, but most importantly, we're catching up and beginning to have tangible things to share. Naturally, not all of this is exciting, but we feel it's important to share what we're up to. Continued…
When I set out to start this little software company, I swore to myself that Sifter was a marathon, not a sprint. While I've done a pretty good job at staying true to that oath, I'd be lying if I said that it was easy. Balancing time between customer-facing features and back-end refactoring and upgrades is difficult. Continued…
Earlier this morning, we finished making some long overdue, but behind-the-scene improvements to Sifter. We've been working on these changes since our unscheduled downtime a couple of weeks ago, and taking steps to make sure that doesn't happen again has... Continued…
Sifter was down for several hours late last night due to a hardware issue. The problem has been resolved, and, naturally, we're taking steps to prevent any recurrences of the problem going forward. Continued…
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