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Money Tree Picked Clean

The money tree, being the hot commodity that it is, has been picked clean! The sponsor is over and the tree will be taken down momentarily. When it next appears we hope to have opt out options in place and a new activity for everyone to participate in, but until then... Happy Thanksgiving!

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Towns Winter Wonderland?

While working on Caroling for towns I accidentally activated it on the site. sweatdrop
I'm sorry to report that it is not ready yet and has been taken down. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

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While I work on Caroling I've decided to go ahead and change the season in Towns. So head over to Towns and chill out by the lake while throwing snowballs at unsuspecting users!

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Fishing Pushed Back
We're still tuning and adjusting the new fish and adding stuff to the exchange, so it looks like the big fishing revamp will be pushed back a few days.

(Please note that this was a development slip; please give your understanding to Juno, who tried to move heaven and earth to get this out on time.)

More information in a bit.
Playtex Scavenger Hunt Made Repeatable
Users who have completed the Playtex Scavenger Hunt on the site will be able to find stickers once again, earning more gold for each sticker found. This update will take a few minutes to kick in; until then, some users might get a 'grant not found error'.

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Puzzles for Hope

Due to an oversight on our part the Puzzles for Hope contest ended prematurely. The event has been brought back online and extended until end of day (23:59 PST) this Saturday.

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Playtex Community Meter

By now many of you have noticed that the Playtex community meter on the profile is at 100%. The Sponsorship team is gathering the list of Mosaic hunt participants and checking it twice. Once we're all done we'll begin granting the participants their item, and notifying them of the grant via PM. This may take a few days but don't worry, we're on it. smile

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Possible Forum Issue
We're tracking down a possible forum issue -- it looks like there are far fewer people representing for Dogs in our Dogs vs. Cats forum battle. We think this must be a problem in forums, because there is no way that Dogs could be so much less popular than Cats.

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Tektek
Tektek is currently on a blacklist, causing many browsers to report security problems. We've removed tektek from the image whitelist for now, until they fix the problem -- this should reduce the number of warnings that you get from your browser.

Put another way: anyone that hasn't changed their account settings for "Show images" will, until Tektek fixes the blacklist issue, have to click "show blocked images" to see any images hosted on Tektek.

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Flash Games
We're experimenting with Towns changes -- we'd like to move the flash games to a different port so that more people are able to run them.

Please try Towns (zip code 1001 and zip code 3435) and let us know if either zip code works better for you now. Use our flash games thread to report any problems. Thanks.

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Offer Inventory
If you're the type that likes doing the offers for free cash, the offer inventory is being adjusted over the next week, so you might want to keep an eye on it.

(Also, special note for those of you that are subscribed to dev notices: if you want 28GC really easily, there's a special offer to do a Bing search for free GC. Take advantage of Microsoft's marketing budget while Microsoft is still trying to break the Google hegemony in search!)

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Headphones (For Subscribing)
Our apologies for users who have not gotten their headphones yet. Users who were subscribed for three months (i.e., paid three times) have NOT yet received their headphones, due to an API / integration problem between us and the subscription provider.

If you were subscribed three months, regardless of whether you are subscribed now, then you'll get the headphones. We hope to have this cleared up by tomorrow, or Thursday latest.

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Sneak Peek: Homepage
As part of our ongoing efforts to try and communicate better, we're going to be experimenting with interactive, moderated chats. The first one is today at 3:00pm PST -- we're going to be showing a sneek peek of some of the changes that we're thinking about for the homepage.

Please join us in Site Feedback if you're interested in watching / participating.

If this works well, we'll do it more often for a wider variety of topics.

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Tektek is not a curse word
Tektek is not a new curse word, nor are we going to start cracking down on any tektekbear pictures that we see. We've temporarily masked any references to tektek while they resolve their blacklist issues -- Google was starting to penalize us for the high number of linkages. We'll unmask it as soon as Tektek resolves the situation.

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Tektek
Look, ma, no asterisks! It looks like Tektek has resolved the blacklist problem, so we are not masking the tektek domain anymore. Thanks for your patience.

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Fireside Chat: How Can We Support Artists Better?
We're having another moderated chat session; for this one we'd like to ask users what we could do to support the Gaian art community better. This might touch on everything from forum changes to directory listings to arena changes.

If you're interested, please join us in Site Feedback on December 14th at 3PM PST.

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