cheers mekai i think you could be right there. .
Giveaway Transition Problem
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It is happening again with the RSS spam. The giveaway link takes you to a legitimate looking Giveaway of the Day site but the download link is to a TinyURL.
I believe that might be related to GOTD also starting to use twitter to announce giveaways - and using tinyurl for the webpage links (because twitter messages are limited in length?)
http://twitter.com/GiveawayotDay
(note the different spelling)
Posted 15 years ago # -
Bigun
MemberI am another one that experienced a download problem at the GOTD website during the weekend. I kept checking the main GOTD website throughout the day on April 11 and continued up to a little after midnight. The only giveaway that I saw on the main page was a game being given away in the GGOTD section. I am sorry that I missed the 3D Text Commander 2.0 download. It is one of the downloads that I would have liked to have tried.
I have been without a computer for about two months and finally got things working Thursday. I know that my computer was working correctly during the time of the giveaway. I have not noticed it falter a single time on anything else. During the time that 3D Text Commander 2.0 was being given away I used both IE 7 and Foxfire so do not think that I was having browser problems. BuBBy, do you think there is a chance that the downloads missed during the transition period will be repeated in the very near future?
Posted 15 years ago # -
BuBBy, do you think there is a chance that the downloads missed during the transition period will be repeated in the very near future?
Yes. There is a chance. However while I have very little effect on how big "a chance", I think that the GOTD team can hardly not be aware that a problem on the GOTD side has caused a lot of users to miss out. If I was the developer, I'd want to make sure nobody missed out. I'd hate to disappoint keen users.
And how do you follow Twitter? Well start by visiting http://twitter.com/GiveawayotDay and then sign up and click on the big blue button marked "Follow".
But going back a step - have a look at these
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=219519&title=twitter-frenzy
or else...
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
http://webtrends.about.com/od/webmashups/tp/7-great-twitter-mashups.htm
Posted 15 years ago # -
dmb3777
MemberWill iSpring Pro 4.1 be offered for download again???
The evening (of April 10, 2009) that the iSpring Pro 4.1 Program was featured on Giveaway of the Day, the links regularly used for downloading were not available, so I was unable to download the application. I did notice that GOTD had the next day's Giveaway posted as well (which they had never done before) and that it had the download links for that one already available...even though when clicked on, it said that the Giveaway was not available for download yet. So, I can only deduce that in GOTD adding their new feature (that is, showing the next day's Giveaway along with the current Giveaway) that they somehow got the availability of the download links backward.
Will you (Giveaway of the Day) be offering iSpring Pro 4.1 for download again (with download link(s) available for it, of course) so that we will be able to download it this time?
Thank you.
Posted 15 years ago #
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