Nov 26
It's been a tough year for most people we know. But through all the hard times, it's easy for me personally to think of things to be thankful for, and I hope you can do the same.
I'm thankful for our health, our toddler, and for this site's community. You guys rock!
To all the We Eatters out there -- Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 19
The most popular recipes on We Eatt time of year are usually Thanksgiving recipes. Last year we ran down
Thanksgiving Recipes on We Eatt.
To find more, you can
search for Thanksgiving, view all
tags with thanksgiving, or
explore the sides.
Thanks for using We Eatt.
Sep 19
We're all good on the server side of things here. If you want more
technical information, read on:
When we moved to a new set of servers, we wanted to reduce the amount
of memory available on each server. Rather than have 1 server with a
gig of memory, we moved to a set of servers with 256mb each. Trouble
was, that wasn't enough.
We needed more than 256 and try as we might --- couldn't make it fit.
So the memory got taken up, moved to "swap" and then that got taken
up. No good came of this and the site slowed from a crawl to a stop.
We increased the memory on the application/web server to 512 and all
has been good for a while.
Probably too much information, but there you go! Back to stable and
ready for the long haul.
Sep 15
We've had a bit of trouble tonight with our new server setup.
Unfortunately, some requests seem to be taking forever, and its just
slowing down the site completely.
We've provisioned some more horsepower (memory and servers), but
they'll take some time to come online.
Right now it's 11:15 PM on Tuesday, September 15th. We've been having
trouble for about 45 minutes, and it may take another hour to two to
settle down. I don't like problems like this and we're sorry.
Sep 14
We Eatt is moving to a new set of servers -- we've been testing this
out over the last two weeks and are prepared.
This should happen in the next few hours -- you'll be shown a
migration page and can view both this blog and our
http://status.weeatt.com, which will contain the minute by minute
updates.
We'll only be moving the database during the migration, so it
shouldn't take longer than 10-15 minutes to backup, restore, and then
run our checks to make sure we didn't make a Monday mistake.
Aug 19
I saw this incredibly simple recipe on Lifehacker and thought all the
WeEatters would enjoy it. It's a way to make homemade butter,
including getting some butter milk from two simple ingredients.
1. Chilled Heavy Cream
2. Salt
Visit Lifehacker at
http://lifehacker.com/5339179/enjoy-homemade-butter-in-less-than-five-minutes to learn more.
The original recipe was at
http://www.overthehillandonaroll.com/2009/06/how-to-make-butter-in-under-5-minutes.html,
but I found at Lifehacker.
Jul 22
We moved the weeatt blog! It's now on blog.weeatt.com.
We switched our blog from a local Wordpress installation to a hosted
solution at Posterous, and linked
http://blog.weeatt.com over to them.
Your existing RSS feeds will still work.
We did this to make posting easier (it's very very easy on Posterous
[
www.posterous.com]), and get information out to the blog faster.
Since most of you find these posts from the homepage, shouldn't affect
your life at all; but we post all changes here, so there you go!
Jul 10
We recently had a user violate our community policies and I wanted to
tell you what we did, and what we believe our community here at We
Eatt is all about.
The user posted comments that were bordering on abusive and were
negative, or frankly childish. In my work life, I say “they did not
add to the value of the conversation.” Many of you were also sent
messages and friend requests that you did not expect or frankly want.
This was a first for We Eatt, but likely not the last. This type of
trolling is somewhat common on message boards, although our community
has been able to stear clear of that type of behavior.
What is our community all about? Well, as it has evolved, We Eatt is a
constructive environment to store your recipes and interact with your
in-real-life friends. The key word is constructive. If you don’t have
something nice to say, or possibly a helpful suggestion, please
refrain from posting.
We took the action of banning the user; it was difficult but I wanted
to show that I am intent on keeping this community a thoughtful
community.
In the future, we’ll add the following features
* “Block User” - be able to block a user from messaging you, or
commenting on your recipes
* Comment Moderation - be able to restrict comments on your
recipes from randoms. Also be able to delete comments that you don’t
want on your recipes.
Thanks for using We Eatt, we heart you!
Jan 20
The US Senate held an lunch today to celebrate President Obama's inaguration, and posted the recipes. The luncheon is held for most inagurations, and is served with "cuisine reflecting the home states of the new President and Vice President".You can download the
recipes in PDF form.The Lunch:
- First Course: Seafood Stew
- Second Course: Duck and Pheasant with Sour Cherry Mash and Molasses Sweet Potatoes
- Third Course: Apple Cinnamon Sponge Cake
Note: First found on
Lifehacker
Dec 28
If you have a facebook account, show your fb friends that you're a fan of We Eatt. Just find the
weeatt facebook page and click "become a fan".
When you do, facebook will add an item to your newsfeed like the following example:
The
We Eatt Facebook page is located at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Eatt/40837489703 or just search fb for "We Eatt".
