For those of you who twitter, you can follow along with namethis by … well … following @namethis.  All new projects are announced and reminders of time running down are announced as well.  It’s a great way to spread the coolness that is namethis throughout the internets, to all your best buds.

Also, it’s really hard to not tell you guys about all the new features coming down the pike, and I also hate to over promise, but we still got a hopper full of cool, new stuff for yinz, real soon now.  I’m guessing later this week, early next week will be the time frame that it starts hitting the production site.

Unicorns and daffodils,

Hi y’all.  Wanted to give you a heads up on the new Namethis feature: uniqueness.  We’re using some magic special sauce behind the scenes to determine how unique a Namethis suggestion is across the Internet in comparison with the other suggested names on the site.  We’re hoping this information leads to more informed investing and better winners.

We’ve had lots of talks, the community and Kluster, about improving the site and rules that can be put in place to make for even better results.  One of the unnamed variables in the equation is whether we can be as impactful in our improvements without changing the fundamental rules of the game.  This is an attempt to do exactly that, we’ll see how it works out.

Also included in this release are some small fixes around duplicate names.  We tried to make the net a little wider to catch more possible dupes (including some of Stacy’s suggestions).  There were also some small UI fixes here and there.

Keep tuned in over the next couple of weeks as we bump up the Namethis awesomeness (even more, if it’s possible).  We’ve got a lot brewing in our labs that I’m quite confident you guys are gonna like.  There’s a certain feature in particular that I imagine is gonna cause a bit of a stir … but I don’t want to ruin the surprise, so I’ll stop short of any more hints.

As always, with love …

Come on people.  I had SOOO many good name suggestions for the LoneRider beer name and none of them won.  That’s just not fair!  I used to think that we had the best community around, but now I’m not too sure … *grin*

I do have to admit that Brewtality was pretty good, though.  Fun times, at least.  Thanks for the great project LoneRider.

Does anyone use it?

Does anyone like it?

Hello everyone.

Sorry for the delay in making this post… I’ve spent the last few days reading and digesting all of your comments, and thinking strongly about your request for lifting the monthly payment limits.

Unfortunately, though, after looking at the data… it is not something we are ready to do.  Although the first card loads last month worked seamlessly for many, we had failures/errors on about 36% on last months load requests, which kept Twentyman busy debugging our communications with payoneer, etc.   I am not ready to take this out of test mode until we are seeing this working much more smoothly.  

For what it’s worth, I want nothing more then to lift this payment limit.. It is extremely valuable to us as an organization to have core evangelists, and ironically, those are the few that are being hurt by the payment limit… which pains me. 

While we are happy with our progress so far, we TRULY appreciate you hanging in there with us as we really perfect the complex logistics associated with paying thousands of people and interfacing between 4 parties (banks, card processors, kluster front end, and our accounting platform) .    

In the words of our great president… “it’s hard work, we’re workinn’ hard”

You guys rock, hang in there.  we’re on it. 

b

Lacy’s working on deletable criteria/hangovers. I’m working on namethis analytics. Ben’s working on caffeinating so he can ask what we’re working on twice a minute.

We are the bloggiest team in the mutha uckin world. In other words, coffee line + iphone = blog.

Some quick updates for all you klusterers out there. We added a few small things to private klusters that should help both administrators and users alike to generate and filter out the best of the best ideas.

In no particular order other than that from which they spill out of my brain, they are:

• Project editing ability for admins. Change the name of the project, the description, its criteria, and when it ends. Whenever, to whatever. No more perfect typing necessary on the first try.

• Admins can also remove projects from the list of completed projects if so desired.

• Comment threads for submitted ideas. Think an idea sucks, bam, comment. Love another idea, bam, another comment. Want to riff on a half-baked idea, bam, done.

As always, if you love ‘em or hate ‘em (or us), please let us know.

Love,

team kluster

First of all, our apologies to the community.  Ish.

Secondly, we had an atrociously bad day here at the Kluster nerve center and all sites were down for about 15 hours.  We believe we have restored full functionality at this point and we’ll be monitoring the site closely to ensure it stays in that condition (huge ups to Mr. Mike Lacy! Y’all send ‘im props, ya here).

Thirdly, in light of the site being down, we’ve given each namethis project an additional 72 hours to collect great names.  Everyone get in there and make sure to do an extra special excellent naming job for us, k?

Thanks so much for your patience and sticking with us.  We hope you guys had a better day then us today, and you have a great weekend.

We’ve been hearing feedback from the community and noticed in the logs that there are sometimes issues with new user registration.  This has been fixed on our testing servers and we’ll be moving it live in the near future.  If anyone’s had these problems, please check back to see when you’ll be good to go.  Sometimes this error manifests itself by not allowing a new user to login and giving no error message (a double-whammy).

As always, thanks for being cool.