We’ll be performing database maintenance on Tuesday, August 12th between 9:30am and 11:30am (EST). The Graboid site and service may be unavailable throughout this 2 hour period.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for you patience.

Here at Graboid, we’re looking for our next superstar developer. We’ve got a lot of features and projects planned and we’re looking for the right person to help us build the next generation of our software platform.

We pride ourselves on a fun environment, with exciting new challenges every week. So, if you’re a web developer proficient in PHP/MySQL and JavaScript, and you live or are willing to move to the Greater Toronto area, then please check out our complete job posting.

We’ve had some interest in Graboid T-Shirts from our users, so we’ve gone ahead and opened the Graboid Store!

Within the store you’ll find everything from sweaters, shirts, clocks, and mousepads, to… thongs! *GASP*

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Graboid Store Grand Opening Contest

So now’s your chance to show off just how much you love Graboid: The first person to send in a photo of themselves in their brand new Graboid-wear will get a free one month Gold subscription to Graboid. You can’t beat that for $8.99!

To participate in this contest, just send a photo of yourself in your new Graboid Tee (or other Graboid attire) to store@graboid.com.

Good luck!

Last night at midnight we took all Graboid servers offline for planned maintenance. As of 2pm, all functionality of the application and the website/account processing is back up.

please direct support-oriented posts to the Graboid User Forums. This blog is for general commentary and rants that aren’t rude. Other posts will be deleted.

We now know what’s causing the runtime error in version 1.0 of Graboid - it’s a bug in a component of the software that comes from a Firefox activex module. Since we can’t fix it directly (it’s not our code), we’re having to rewrite a fair bit of the Graboid code that displays information in the main application window. The patch fix will go live as soon as we complete a major server upgrade that is ongoing as we speak, and should be complete within 24 hours (morning of Friday the 25th).

The server upgrade will increase the speed of almost all data load times within Graboid (not video download, which is already faster than most machines can handle), as well as making our service more robust.

Sorry for the runtime error, we’ve solved it as quickly as possible. If you’re having difficulty using 1.0 because of this error, please install version 0.95 until we get it fixed. Thanks.

please direct support-oriented posts to the Graboid User Forums. This blog is for general commentary and rants that aren’t rude.

I just saw the screenshots for the new website that we’ll be putting up later this week. To quote Borat, “Vury Naase”. Everything’s changed but the Octopus. You’ll get a kick out of the homepage for a very specific reason, and I’m looking forward to getting peoples’ reactions. No hints, just wait for it.

People have been yammering at me for a year now to watch “Battlestar Galactica” and I finally got around to it this weekend. Actually a pretty darn good show. I’m surprised because normally I have no patience for TV other than live sports, comedies, or the occasional drama that I watch with my wife. She’s off visiting family right now and my beloved Maple Leafs are becoming laughably bad, so after the NFL playoffs are done, what to do, what to do… I’ve become disenchanted with World of Warcraft as I’m stuck in some nether-region called Desolace, and only infrequently run into anyone else, let alone from my own faction. Sorry, I’m digressing.

Battlestar - I loved the original series and moaned its demise, but this new one is a great substitute. I can’t quite get over Starbuck being a girl, but other than that thoroughly enjoyable. My other favourite shows are Entourage, Dexter, Dirty Sexy Money, Rules of Engagement, Brothers and Sisters, and when I’m really pressed, Two and a Half Men. If that sounds like a mix that appeals to you, then definitely check out Battlestar Galactica. I’m sure you can buy the DVDs cheap on eBay since they’ve been around a while.

You asked for it, so here it is: The Official Graboid Community Forums.

We’re going to be making the Graboid Community an important part of the Graboid web experience, offering news, technical support, discussions, and other social features to our users. Also, over the next few weeks we’ll be migrating support for free Graboid users to the forum. We will be asking these users to share their questions and answers there so that we can concentrate on offering the highest level of personal e-mail support to our premium members, while offering an excellent way for free members to receive the information they need.

Your existing Graboid usernames and passwords will work, so there’s no excuse not to participate. So, head on over and let’s get the Graboid forum rolling!

If you have any suggestions for additional discussion forums you’d like to see, let us know in the comments section.

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Click here to go to the forum

UPDATE: The application and site should be working correctly now.

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We’ve encountered a slew of problems during our upgrade to a database cluster today. We are still working extremely hard with our web host to get the problems sorted out as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Graboid is growing, and growing fast.

We apologize to our loyal users for the downtime we’ve all been experiencing. The good news is that Wednesday, November 28, we will be undertaking MAJOR server upgrades. Please be patient as the site and service (and even e-mail support) will likely be interrupted throughout the morning. We are trying to complete all of the upgrades during our least busy time, 4AM to 10AM EST, and we will switch the site over to a static progress page to keep all of you informed of the status of the upgrades. You will be able to access this status page by visiting www.graboid.com.

We thank you for your patience and understanding, and look forward to offering you improved reliability.

After the fantastic level of response to the our last blog post, I thought we could use some feedback regarding our site. By “site” I mean our web site, and not our application which you use to download your masses of video content.

Your participation in our little poll would be extremely helpful, but even better would be posting your thoughts in our comments section — so don’t be shy!

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