f! Blog archive for March 2009

A short visitor analysis for a short month: almost 35,000 pages (as many as in January) got served to over 9,500 visitors (+300) from 108 countries (+4). Growth continues in Northern America, a two-sided article about ffindr in the recently published second issue of informative and glossy Ultimate Canada Magazine will strengthen this trend even more. The US gained yet another five per cents of the visitor's origin cake. No further upsets on the remaining spots,...

European winter is slowly stepping back, making room for the outdoor season. After a month without any featured tournament, it's time to present yet another highlight in the Frisbee world calendar: the Boracay Open Beach Ultimate tournament on the Philippines. The home team of the island of Boracay are the Boracay Dragons, a continuously growing Frisbee club of former dragon boat rowers. Unforgotten the impressive silver performance of nine Boracay Dragons that represented the Philippines at...

The latest developments have just been uploaded to beta.ffindr.com, feel free to check it out and report malfunctions, strange behaviours, etc. This update follows the announced features of the roadmap of the first semester of 2009, plus a bunch of minor improvements. The usual week of beta testing will be a little shorter this time, solely due to a nasty problem that stresses ffindr for some time now: item (tournament or link) pages break down due...

A long demanded feature has just been released: l10n (=localisation) of ffindr's homepage. Much time has been spent on technical enhancements, it was time to provide a visible and useful enhancement for the ffindr users. Just bookmark (or remember) the country/continent subdomain of your choice and you'll get a perfectly tailored map and upcoming events list (plus RSS feed). No more click overhead to get the events you are interested in, now the homepage gets you...