Sorry about the site being down. Apparently our hosting provider had a direct lightning strike that caused their main breaker to switch off. Everything should be up and running now. If you have any questions, as always, feel free to email us at support@essembly.com. Thanks.

We’d like to introduce the beginnings of a feature called topics. With topics, you can…

• Find out what essembly is discussing.
  Every week we’ll show you the top topics the site as a whole is discussing, based on the number of resolves created about the topic.
• Delve into the past.
  By clicking “See more topics,” you can see past rankings from week to week. Discover interesting tidbits like how often essembly is talking about essembly, or a rising interest in religion and morality.

But ask not what topics can do for you, but what you can do for topics. By attaching more topics to a resolve every time you create one, you make resolves easier to find by other members, and provide a better sense of what the community as a whole is discussing.

Enjoy!

To celebrate the beginning of June we’ve added two new features:

• Email notifications.
  Every time something interesting happens (e.g. new posts on your discussions) on essembly, we’ll send you an email about it. Who defines interesting? Well, you do. Modify your email notifications settings at http://www.essembly.com/edit/notifications. We have a few up for now, but stay tuned for many more.
• A new login page.
  We thought we’d tidy up the welcome mat for new essembly visitors. Although the old login page gave a good sense for the grand vision of essembly (see Joe’s first post, Three Steps), we discovered that most people stare blankly and move along their merry way. The idea behind this new page is to provide a sense of the activity on essembly - a resolve, and passionate discussion on both sides of the debate.

Let us know what you think!

The essembly community is growing faster by the day, and with that growth can come some unexpected surprises.

Take today (or yesterday by now)—the site was down for about 12 hours because the company whose servers we rented decided that some of their equipment should fail. And to not mention it to us. So much for 24×7 customer service.

Thanks for bearing with us. It just goes to show, when you want something done right, you have to do it yourself…