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The search is now working properly again. A line of code had been duplicated some time ago, preventing the search box from showing up when you clicked Search.

Spam has been a really big problem for quite some time now. Harry and I have been working hard to remove unwanted submissions, but it just hasn’t been enough to counter the tirelessness of the spammers.

So, why haven’t I done more to prevent this? Well, it’s partly because I haven’t had much time to work on the site, but it’s also because I didn’t want to add captchas to the site. Nor did I want to rely on an external service like Akismet.

Last night a new anti-spam system was installed. It’s an experiment that will need some tweaking, but I’m hopeful. I will remove old spam comments as we go along.

Please send me an email if I’ve removed a desk in error, or if you’re experiencing any problems.

There are typically 2–4 spam-photos posted every day. I’ve been having trouble keeping up with that as I’m on a different timezone than most of you and—even worse—if I’m away for a day or two the desks-section looks like a Hotmail-inbox.

This situation has forced us to call on the big guns. Spam beware, I’d like to introduce to you, the moderation-squad: Harry Richmond!

The issue that was preventing you from deleting photos and desks has now been resolved. A big thanks to our members for helping us out with the issue.

The same problem was preventing us from deleting spam-desks at our typical rate. We should, as of today, be able to keep up with the dreg again.

We’ve had an unusual amount of “spam” on the site lately. People have been creating accounts and uploading photos of stuff that’s not remotely related to work environments.

Now, we haven’t been very clear on what the rules for using the site are. I will make time to write some guidelines for uploading photos, making comments and other actions. Until that day I will delete any photo that does not match my subjective view of what is appropriate. I will also delete comments that I deem offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

I hope this is ok with the community. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you feel that I’ve deleted something I shouldn’t have.

Thank you guys for making me aware of these issues.

We had a few hours of downtime a few days ago. Sorry about that! We’ll do better—promise!

We apologize for the downtime. A new site was deployed on the server and I forgot to make proper adjustments to Deskography.

Thank you guys for notifying me—a better monitoring tool than anyone could ask for.

Quick update: We’ve re-enabled comments on blog/news entries again.

We’ve added e-mail notifications to most everything on the site: comments on photos; comments on organizations; when people apply to join organizations; when your application to join is approved and more.

The notifications were added to make your experience more enjoyable. We will, however, be adding a preference pane where you can toggle them off if they’re not your cup of tea (do send us an e-mail if it’s urgent though).

We’ve made a few minor tweaks to the site today.

Among the updates you’ll find:
* That you’re able to browse all comments from the frontpage.
* Featured organizations visible on the frontpage (yeah, we featured ourselves .. so sly).

We’ve also started sending out emails to suitable candidates for “featured profiles”. Let us know if there’s anyone in particular you want us to email and ask for a photo—we’re getting pretty good at cold-emailing.

Also, we made a pretty big change to the foundation of the site, there might be hiccups (that we’ll be swift to fix).

We’ve spent the last two days realigning organizations. We loved seeing all your organizations, and the concept of grouping people under an umbrella—adding perspective to work-environments and stuff—is great. But it was rather limited. We adjusted the focus a little: the focus on the photos of members’ desks was decreased and we introduced the ability to upload arbitrary photos. We hope you’ll like that.

We fixed a few bugs and added comments to organizations and their photos while we were at it.

Loads of other stuff in the pipeline. Toss us an email or write a comment if there’s anything in particular you’re looking forward to.

As always—let us know if anything works!

You can now search for desks and people. Let me know if anything works as expected! :)

Hi! I’ve added a simple RSS feed that allows you to track the latest desks. A lot of small glitches were fixed as well.

Thank you all for the most excellent feedback! More updates incoming.

I bet you’ve spent quite some time staring at that grayed-out link in the navigation labeled “Organizations”. Every time you’ve visited the site, just staring at it, waiting for something to happen. I know we have.

Well, suddenly last night, out of nowhere, it came: the link is now the same shade of gray as it’s siblings and something actually happens when you click on it!

The concept is pretty straight forward—register your organization (may it be to create a window to your company, to show your affiliation with a group of like-minded people or any other reason you can come up with) and wait for your members to apply to join.

As usual we’ve done as little as possible. Register your organizations and let us know what direction you want it to take. We’re off to find cool people and to plan widgets, improved browsing and a few tweaks.

Things have been moving rather slowly around here. The updates have been few and far between. There has been even less of an effort to grab the attention of people whose desks you want to see.

The reason behind this is that I have caught a lung-tissue disease that has effectively put me at about 15 % of my regular work capacity. It hurts as Deskography is a project that has been brewing in our minds for well over 5 years (I did a smaller WordPress based solution around 2003). It hurts not giving the site the love it needs. Not giving the steadfast users the site they deserve.

I am, however, slowly getting stronger. Me and Johan (who’s been working double shifts) have slowly been ticking things off of our must-do-list. So it seems like we finally have some time to update the site. We won’t be spitting out lines of code by the hundreds every day, but we are leaving this status quo for sure.

I sincerely hope that you can forgive us for neglecting the site (and therefor you) for such a long time.

First of all: hi there! We’re happily amazed that so many of you have shared all these cool photos of your workplaces. It’s very inspiring and we have so many great ideas growing for our new office.

Anyway, we’ve been updating the site a little the past few days:

• We’ve added this here little news-system/blog where we will post updates of the site and other fun stuff. Keep an eye on that little “Latest News” section on the front page if you wish to stay up-to-date with what’s happening at our desks.
• You can now add multiple websites to your profile. Just go to “Your Desks”, click on “Edit Profile” and add up to six websites that you want people to see when they’re viewing your desks. Some common websites (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger etc) will have a little icon next to them. If you add a site you’re a member of that doesn’t have an icon, let us know and we might create one.
• We’ve received tons of emails from people who wanted some kind of voting system for desks. You have one now—you’ll find it to the right of the photo when looking at a desk. You can now also browse desks by the number of likes they’ve received under “Desks”.

Among lots of smaller updates and bug-fixes. Let us know if stuff doesn’t work.