ActiveRain: Keeping You In The Loop!'s Blog

Happy Friday, ActiveRain! Talk about stereotypical weather! According to the forecast, it looks like we'll only see a slight break from the rain on Saturday this entire weekend! We're taking a slight break from the 'Rain, too, but it's with much more sentimental purpose. We are going to be out of...

ActiveRain will be unavailable beginning at 8pm Pacific (11pm Eastern time) tonight, May 19th.  There is a bug fix ready to be implented so as to fix the intermediate outages we experienced last week. The downtime is scheduled to last for one hour, from 8pm to 9pm Pacific Time (11pm-12am Eastern ...

With the announcement of our Bold Move today, ActiveRain will be unavailable from 8-11pm Pacific tonight.  Our team will be making the domain migration move during this brief intermission. Please expect ActiveRain to be available after 11pm Pacific (if not sooner) for all you night owls. Thank yo...

Early this morning, at approximately 3:30am PST ActiveRain went into Intermission.  Unfortunately something happened causing the load balancer to pull each application node out of rotation and the Intermission page was left showing.   The issue has been fixed and is being monitored closely.   We ...

ActiveRain will be unavailable on Thursday, February 6th for approximately one hour.  From 9-10pm PST, ActiveRain will be updating to the latest Ruby 2.0. You will not see anything new forward-facing. This downtime is an infastructure update and necessary for enhanced security measures. Thank you...

Our goal is to create a beloved community andthis will require a qualitative change in our soulsas well as a quantitative change in our lives.-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.   In observance of MLK Day the office will be closed Monday, 01/20/2014. We'll be back bright and early Tuesday morning. We ho...

The recently redesigned blog pages on ActiveRain are getting lots of buzz.  We've improved the reader's experience while enhancing the SEO and lead capture ability for the writer. AR has always been a place to listen to its community in order to continue to make this place great.  We rely on you ...

Gobble gobble, 'Rainers! We will be out of the office from November 28th & 29th, celebrating Thanksgiving with our loved ones!   We'll miss you! We'll see you again, bright and early on Monday, December 2nd (did you know we open at 8am PST now?!) -Cranberries are Red,Rain is BluePumpkin Pie is Sw...

ActiveRain had a successful update last night.  We were able to fix bugs and add a few new things to the table.  Here are the update highlights: New Google Authorship (please see tutorial video below) Ability to search Topics by Most Recent, Most Comments, Most Recently Commented Ability to searc...

ActiveRain will be unavailable for approximately one hour beginning Wednesday, October 16th at 9pm Pacific. IT is releasing fixes and enhancing faster page load times.  A lot of bug fixes coming your way AR, I will release a post with the updates on Thursday morning and as always, please reach ou...