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Privacy vs. Community

posted 4 days ago, updated 14 minutes later and has 1 comment
Privacy and community. They go together like ... well ... they kind of don't go together, do they? Some folks say "good fences make good neighbors." I don't subscribe to that opinion - I live in a community that shares most of its open spac...

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"Recent Activity" on Profile: Disturbing, Yet Good

posted 10 days ago, updated less than a minute later and has 10 comments
Eons recently introduced a "Recent Activity" section on the profile page. Reactions have been varied but, so far, mostly negative. I think I'm beginning to understand why it feels initially disturbing.

Previously, if your "Who can see my recent ...

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Our Competition

posted about 1 month ago and has 7 comments




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Chengdu

posted about 1 month ago and has 6 comments
My posts are usually about technical issues on Eons. Today, however, I'm feeling sad about Chengdu. We visited Chengdu in 2006, spending a day with the Giant Pandas in the Breeding Research Center there.

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Skins, Phase III - The Eons Skin Gallery

posted 2 months ago, updated 1 day later and has 9 comments
A "Skin" - for those of you who are just getting started - is a design theme that is applied to your profile page. Each skin includes settings for the colors, fonts, borders and background images that apply to various areas of the profile.

With t...

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Customizing the "Yellow Box" on your profile

posted 3 months ago, updated 7 minutes later and has 3 comments
The intent of the yellow box is to highlight the important and typical actions that people will want to do when they visit your profile (send a PM, send a gift, etc.).

The following code is efficient and maintains the feel of the standard design,...

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Using Your Eons Photos in Blog Posts

posted 3 months ago, updated 3 months later and has 1 comment
Update 6/20/08: This blog post is now obsolete because of the changes in the new photo system. I'll try to get back to this and revise it but, for now, please don't try to do what I've described below!

Eons makes it easy to include a single photo...

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Profile "Skins"

posted 4 months ago and has 5 comments
Greetings from the Eons engineering department! With the February 20th Beta release of Eons, we have begun to deploy our official support for custom profile styling - a.k.a. "skinning".

Go to your Profile and, at the bottom of the yellow contain...

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How to Pimp Your Profile on the Beta Site

posted 4 months ago, updated 4 days later and has 26 comments
This repeats the information from our "Making the Most of Your Profile in Beta" document. However, this version is probably going to be updated more frequently - simply because it's easier to do so. If you're interested in this topic, please subsc...

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Disclaimer: The Analogy

posted 6 months ago and has 5 comments
Disclaimer: The following analogy attempts to give new perspective to the situation at hand by re-casting it as a real-world scenario. Imagination may be required!
Accept | Get me the heck outta here!<...

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