We’ve had a busy afternoon here at the Zoo working hard to merge the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum user accounts. I’m pleased to say that the process is now complete!
The details of the merge process have been outlined in this earlier post but basically some of you will have had your accounts merged [...]
You may have noticed that the forums are again in maintenance mode and new registrations are disabled on the Zoo at the moment. That’s because we’re currently churning away in the background merging the accounts from both databases. For more information have a read of our earlier post We should have some [...]
With the excitement about new observations of Hanny’s Voorwerp, this might be a good time to point out that Zoo participants are finding new examples of a related (albeit less spectacular) class of objects. (That was evidently my roundabout way of saying “hey, everyone, you can look for these too!”). What do these four galaxies [...]
So it’s been a busy 24 hours at Galaxy Zoo. As we outlined in the earlier posts were working hard on unifying the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum accounts. During the merge we had to disable the forums and new registrations on the Zoo so that we could be sure of exactly [...]
So the long promised forums/Zoo accounts merge is underway but unfortunately things are moving a little slower than we’d like. The good new is we’re making good progress, the bad news is the forums won’t be back up until tomorrow now – sorry!
More news in the morning…
Cheers
Arfon
Today is a big day for those of us who work behind the scenes at Galaxy Zoo. More news later but for now the forums are in maintenance mode and new registrations are disabled on the Zoo until this evening. More news later…
Cheers
Arfon
Our own paper covering the discovery of Hanny’s Voorwerp is still working it’s way through the refereeing process. We’ve come up against a referee who really understands the subject and it’s taking time to put right our numerous missteps and to make everything clear. A new version will be submitted in the next couple of [...]
In our latest (behind-the-scenes) update of the Galaxy Zoo blog software, we’ve installed a plug in that makes it easy for you to share any story on the blog that you particularly like via portals such as digg.com and facebook. If you do like a post and want to spread the word about it, all [...]
A while ago we asked you to fill out a short survey about your thoughts about Galaxy Zoo. The purpose of this survey was to get an idea of what was inspiring people to participate in Galaxy Zoo. Thank you for participating in that survey. We are starting to analyze the results of that survey, [...]