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We’ve taken down some of the velvet ropes and are approving user logins again — almost everyone should now be approved within forty-eight hours after signing up. (If you share a name with someone who beat us up in middle school, your login approval may take longer. Possibly much longer.)
We are still requiring logins for a while longer, though, so that we can make sure we can handle the traffic.
Got questions? Leave a comment or email us!
Wow! A surprising number of folks signed up for Wordnik yesterday! To throttle back (and make a few more changes) we turned off the signup page again. It will be back shortly, we promise!
In the meantime, enjoy this video about the Most Powerful Vowel:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVC9TayQIh8
Photo by, and licensed from, Macieksz.
Hi folks! Some of you may have noticed that we have put our home page back up, and are letting you sign up for Wordnik user accounts again … we’re slowly handing out logins as we move towards launch.
Our hope is to be able to let everyone in by next Monday night. If that changes, we’ll post something here!
If you want instant notification, you could follow us on Twitter.
Thanks again for your interest in Wordnik!
If you’d like random words to float around your screen when you’re not using your computer, it’s easy to set up Wordie’s recent words feed as a screensaver.
If you’re using a Mac, open System Preferences and in the “Desktop & Screen Saver” section select “Screen Saver,” then choose “RSS Visualizer” (this is the effect Apple stores usually have going at their “Genius” bars). Under “options” enter http://feeds.feedburner.com/WordieLatestWords. When the screen saver fires up, you’ll see the latest nonsense from Wordie floating dreamily across the screen.
If you’re using Windows, NewsGator offers a screensaver add-on for their feed reader, and Lifehacker has a post outlining a similar download.
Just added a feed for the comments attached to every word and word list, so you can more easily keep track of discussions, or see if anyone has responded to a comment or citation you left. As always, please send me suggestions or bug reports for improving this feature.
Someday I hope to add email notifications for keeping track of various things, but feeds are easier to implement, so that’s what we have for now. Occam’s razor guiding me, as usual.
Ok, just retitled this post to be a bit less caustic, but with the recent bump in traffic I’m seeing an increase in junk words. Not fun junk (like strappleberry, which is fantastic), but putting in seven variations of the same word, in what looks like a lame attempt to get listed in the “wordiest wordies” section.
My new policy is to be an anarchist up until a point, after which I’ll be a tyrant, and freeze accounts with impunity. This nascent community is a lot of fun, and I plan on being protective of it. So, please be sensible, and considerate.
You can help. If you see anything that looks fishy or abusive, please let me know.