Freelang’s blog

Freelang wishes you a Happy New Year 2009!

May this new year bring you health, prosperity and happiness for you and all your loved ones.

This is one of the most visited pages of the site at the moment: our collection of “Merry Christmas” in all languages. Not really all languages, of course, but exactly 90 languages (and counting), which is not that bad. Thanks to the feedback provided by all the people who visit this page, new translations are added on a regular basis, and existing translations can also be improved. So please beware of imitations (I mean the unscrupulous bloggers who copy/paste our data without our authorization). The updated list will always be found at Freelang!

Merry Christmas everybody, Joyeux Noël, Hyvää Joulua…!

ECTACO is happy to launch its greatest Christmas Sale campaign ever!

Order any iTRAVL Deluxe model at the special Christmas price and get the traveler’s 10-language ECTACO Universal Translator ML350 (a $100 value) free and an iTRAVL Accessory Pack (a $155 value) as a gift!

Or order any Partner P850 Deluxe model at the special Christmas price and get the traveler’s 10-language ECTACO Universal Translator ML350 (a $100 value) free and a PW850 Accessory Pack (a $110 value) as a gift!

Click here to check out these Christmas Gift offers and choose the one that suits you best!

OK, it was not as smooth as we hoped it would be. Well, it never is, isn’t it? So maybe you noticed that the site was down for a few hours, then that most pages were loading slowly (due to a script not being authorized by the new server). But the good news is, everything is now back to normal. It’s even much better, as we are running on a much faster server (so the site should load faster than before).

Thank you for your patience!

“We are happy to announce that your current account freelang.net will be migrated to a new server.” This is the message we received from our hosting company. It is great news for us, as it will solve a few problems we’ve been experiencing lately (like loss of statistics data due to too much anti-spam activity), but it is also good news for all Freelang users, as it should improve the site’s performance.

The upgrade should be totally smooth, no downtime and no data loss. Of course we will make backups, just in case. But when we move to the new server, because of what is called “DNS propagation”, a few emails or a few changes in our databases could be lost. So if you send an email and you get no reply from us, please wait a little and send it again. Or if you log in as a translator to modify your data and you find out that the data has not been changed, please wait a little and log in again. Within 24 hours everything should be back to normal. The forum will not be impacted at all by this upgrade.