Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   riverboatsam
   Member

   I've been using "Software Informer" to tell me about the GOTD for months now (since e-mail has proven unreliable). It's been working ok until last Friday, 09/16. Even when I do a "manual refresh," it comes up blank. Any suggestions? Thank you!

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Whoever updates the software informer on the giveaway site hasn't been doing a particularily good job of it over the past week. Sometimes it's taken over 14 hours for suggestions to show. Don't know whether this is becasue of a shortage of manpower to moderate or whether there is other problems afoot.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Suze
   Member

   riverboatsam, here's what I do "since e-mail has proven unreliable" -- I signed up for email notifications back in April 2007 and, once in a great while, I don't receive one. So . . . I never delete a giveawayoftheday email until I receive the current day's GotD email. Then, if todays' GotD email is in my Inbox, I delete yesterday's email. If no GotD email is in my Inbox, I just click on the link at the bottom of yesterday's GotD email, and that will open the browser with today's giveaway. Either way, I always have one GotD email in my Inbox until the next one. I haven't missed a giveaway yet (knock wood !!)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Inas
   Member

   I had this problem at first, then I stopped using the email service (and would check the website everyday) but then I signed up for email agian, and it's been working ever since, thank God.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   I don't bother with the email service as it’s just as easy to open the giveaway site to check what's on offer. I visit the forums every day (since I joined the forums in Feb 2007), so it’s a simple matter to just click the link to the giveaway section when I'm done with the forums.

   I wasn't bothered about the forums when I first discovered the giveaway project back in early December 2006 (there was an arkanoid game that was on offer called Arkanoid: The Virtual Isls - which I’ve still got because it was a free standing game - I did have a licenced copy, but lost the reg code when i lost one of my free emails due to inactivity, so couldn't recover the licence, so in the end was glad to get a free standing version). I only found it because I'd been searching for more arkanoids (which at the time were my favourite genre of arcade game, which I only played as a break from the bigger games like Battlefield 2, Tom Clancy games and other shooters) so the name Arkanoid: The Virtual Isles came up in my search. (It was given away almost a year later via the GameGiveaway project as well. Since then I've hardly missed a day visiting (sad really, lol) the giveaway project apart from when I was really ill and when I had to go in hospital plus vacations, but even then I'd quickly check in our hotels internet cafes and since 2009 we've always got a connection to our hotel rooms and I take a laptop, so usually checked each morning. (How sad again, lol).

   Thankfully I no longer download every giveaway like I used to in the first year of the project.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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