Category Archives: Support
Have questions about using foursquare? It’s now easier than ever to find the answers.
About a month ago, we launched #allnew4sq, streamlined to make it even easier for you to find places and friends nearby. Now, we’ve given the same treatment to our once-clunky support site. Though some people find clunky things adorable, we … Continue reading
Growing our Superuser community
Here on team @4sqSupport, one of our ongoing projects is to promote and guide foursquare Superusers. What is a Superuser, you ask? Superusers are the most dedicated and passionate members of our community who help keep foursquare venues organized behind … Continue reading
Quite the way to celebrate our 200 millionth check-in
So… yeah. An exhaustive explanation of last night’s downtime would be a bit redundant to yesterday’s post. In a nutshell, the same thing happened: an overloaded database, the solution to which again was manually redistributing check-in data to make sure … Continue reading
So, that was a bummer.
Yesterday, we experienced a very long downtime. All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long. It sucked for everyone (including our team – we all check in everyday, too). We know how frustrating this was … Continue reading
Am I mayor yet?
We made a quick yet long-awaited tweak to our apps today. When you’re getting close to winning a Mayorship (within 10 check-ins), you’ll now see how far away you are from ousting the current Mayor. You’ll see the count in the … Continue reading
foursquare support
You’ve got a lot of questions about foursquare, it seems. Well, now we’ve got more answers for you. Today we launched a new foursquare FAQ section of our site, and the best part is that it’s searchable. You can search by keyword or … Continue reading