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  Our new designer

  3293 readersHey there.  My name is Dave Martin.  I just joined the Akismet team at Automattic.  I thought it might be fun to introduce myself and talk about how I landed a job at Automattic. I just moved back to the U.S. from Sydney, Australia.  I was there for 2 years while working as the UI

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  New Akismet.com site design

  4222 readersAkismet was the very first commercial service released by Automattic. 5 years later, Akismet.com was still running with exactly the same design it’s had since day 1. That it still looked good was a testament to the strength of understated design. Still, we thought it was about time to freshen things up with a brand

• Akismet Gets a Facelift

  3494 readersAkismet was one of Automattic’s first projects, and after 5 years of sporting the same design, the entire site has received a major facelift. On first glance, the new site presents Akismet’s benefits in a much clearer way, and offers clearer distinction between the free and paid licenses. Fans of the old spam stats will

• Changes Slated For Akismet

  3275 readersJoseph Scott who is working on the Akismet plugin for WordPress notified everyone via the WordPress core development blog that there would be some changes coming to Akismet, starting with version 2.5. In version 2.5 of the plugin, there will be some new files added such as admin.php, akismet,css, akismet.js, and widget.php. There will also

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  Akismet 2.5 for WordPress Released – Film at 11

  15545 readersVersion 2.5.0 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress 3 is now available. Check the Plugins tab of your wp-admin dashboard for instructions on how to update automatically, or visit the plugin page for details. This version requires WordPress 3.0 or higher. This is the first Akismet release in a long time that includes visible new

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  Wrongfully Flagged As Spam By Akismet?

  2 readers For the past few days I’ve had some real trouble trying to comment on other blogs. I would make a comment, and it would seem like nothing happened. No “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” message would show up. Same story even with blogs I’ve had previously approved comments on. I started to suspect

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  20 Billion Served

  7144 readersToday Akismet caught its 20 billionth spam. That’s an average of around 10 million per day over the 5 years since Akismet first launched. Currently we deal with 30 million spam comments on a typical day, or about 350 per second. To put that in perspective: if Akismet users had to spend one second manually

• Is Akismet Still Free?

  2799 readersThe short answer is yes, it’s still free for personal use. However, over the past few weeks, it seems as though many people believe that the free use of Akismet has disappeared and it’s now only a paid service. So in order to understand where this line of thought is coming from, I decided to

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  Poll Results: How Many Plugins do You Use?

  5176 readersBack in October, we asked the WordPress community How Many Plugins do You Use?. Several months later, over 1300 people have voted, and here are the results: I find these results to be very interesting. Looking at the data, we see that 63% of voters use 10 plugins or less. Further, a whopping 84% of voters

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  Five Years of Envato

  9517 readersIt’s kinda crazy to think, but our little internet startup, Envato, has been on the air now for five years. We started back in 2006 as four very enthusiastic and totally green entrepreneurs with a shoestring budget and a love of the web. Fast forward five years and while we’re hopefully a little less green,