FeedCount

As many of you have noticed already we have rolled out a cool new feature: feedcount. Since many people are reading blogs using a rss reader, comparing blogs only on pageviews is not at all accurate. So we added to our system another metric starting today, and this is the feedcount. It works for any [...]

Searching for blogs

We have just released a new version of our site that includes the most requested feature: a search box. Before, you could find blogs based on the general top, their category or their tags. Still, with the number of blogs growing every day a search box was really needed.
You can now use the top search [...]

Better thumbs

When we started, we were using thumbshots.org, which seemed to be the best solution for our thumbs (and not to mention it was free). After a few months we realized that this has some limitations:

fixed size of the thumbs,
the thumb was taken a long time ago (maybe even years ago, depending on the age of [...]

TopOfBlogs tags

We just realized that having a top generated for a tag that has only one occurrence (only one blog registered with that tag) is not useful at all. This is a waste of resources (generating a worthless page, making the tag cloud harder to read, etc.) so we decided that we will create the top [...]

Improved existing site check

We have just improved the existing site check to verify upon submission if the blog already exists in our system. This was previously done at the end of the submission, but now it is the first step. This will save you from adding information and then getting an error that the site has already been [...]