If, by any chance, any of our readers is attending Democamp in Poznań (Poland) tomorrow (Friday), don't forget to give us a friendly punch. Wikidot won't be running a booth this time nor have a dedicated presentation, but if you are going to be there, it should be easy to spot us. We will be wearing prototypal Wikidot T-shirts.

Democamp is targeted towards web startups in early stages, often looking for business partners or investors. Definitely not where Wikidot is now, but I personally hope for a chat with my old friends and pitch a few ideas.

Right. T-shirts!!! We accidentally might have a few extra T-shirts with the Wikidot logo. Instead of giving them away to random people we rather give them to you, our Wikidot Community. But so far we have not yet decided how to do this.

T-shirts are available in multiple sizes. There is also a larger Wikidot logo on the back. Sorry, no real photo right now, but we will update it as soon as we can.

If you have an idea how we should give away the T-shirts, post it here! It might be an idea for a competition, or just a way to gift top community contributors. We will pick the best idea and simply do it!

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A couple of hours ago the number of registered people at Wikidot passed the 1 million mark.

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Recently, after long tests and usability research we have introduced a significant change in Activity List. As you may or may not have noticed, every activity item shows a gearwheel on hover, which can be clicked to unveil additional options that depend on your watching settings. For example if you watch the whole site which the activity belongs to, you'd have "Unwatch site". Similar options are shown when you watch a category or just one page — "Unwatch category" and "Unwatch page" respectively. It's worth mentioning that you can reverse those changes in the same place if, for example, you've changed your settings by mistake.

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Today we are happy to announce a major change in our product branding. Over the years we have found that the brand Wikidot is a limiting issue for the growth of our business. Not only it does not really reflect the fact that you can use Wikidot to create websites. Right, we know — the word wikiwiki means quickly in Hawaiian, but the global awareness of this word is negligible. The dot suffix does not help in understanding our mission either. Wikidot as a brand name is not only inequivalent, but also difficult to remember by our potential clients. Analysis provided by independent consultants seems to confirm our findings.

Because of this, our Board of Directors decided to rebrand Wikidot into:

friendly-website-service.com

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Finally, after a long and onerous winter March has brought spring to the northern hemisphere. 20th March to be precise. It's often surprising how freezing winter can turn into beautiful, sunny weather just within a few days.

After the first spring walk in the woodlands around Toruń — our hometown — we have found that the nature has undoubtedly woken up and is just thriving with flowers such as snowdrops and croci with the accompaniment of birds' chirp. But not only the flora and fauna is rousing. Moderate temperature and much more sunlight causes our hearts to pump faster, energizing and motivating us to do more and better.

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A few days ago we improved our email delivery system. Since then we had to solve a few issues that caused unexpected behaviour, but the system seems to be bulletproof now. It allowes us to reliably send emails to our users, including those using Hotmail.com addresses.

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Hi,

we would like to apologize to our users who have enabled "watching notifications" — as a result of an inconsistency in our code our servers started processing malformed activities and sending emails to unrelated users.

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