Caution – Phishing Email – DO NOT CLICK!
There is a phishing email purporting to be from RunSignup and including a link to a bad website. DO NOT CLICK! This is not from us.
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Category: Infrastructure
Registration Delays Today
We had registration delays that occurred today from 3:52PM – 4:32PM. All registrations, ticket purchases and membership purchases during that period were processed at 4:32, with the registration timestamp occurring when the person registered. Users saw a spinner on the final confirmation…
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Restricting Old Style Login Access to API
15 years ago when we first came out with our API, we provided for access via a Login. This was before Oauth1 and OAuth2 support. We now expect all new users of the API to use our OAuth2, and are strongly encouraging…
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Email Marketing at Scale – Best Practices for Event Directors
Email is one of the most effective tools event directors have to promote events, engage participants, and build lasting communities. RunSignup’s Email v2 system was built specifically to support event marketing at scale—while handling the complex technical details behind the scenes. As…
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RunSignup Advances MCP Server
Progress Report: MCP Server Project RunSignup continues to build capabilities based on Model Context Protocol (MCP) to support direct authenticated access to RunSignup data from popular AI Chat products like ChatGPT. We currently have a working internal pilot that demonstrates a RunSignup…
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Simple MFA Coming to Send Email and Payment Account Editing
As part of our infrastructure upgrades to prevent the “bad apples” we discussed with the Email Upgrades blog, we will be adding Simple Multi Factor Authentication to the pages where fraudulent behavior can happen. This initial release will be for sending emails…
Read MoreEmail Infrastructure Upgrades
We apologize for the inconvenient email maintenance that required us to take the sending of emails offline over this past weekend. We had seen a rise in abuse of our email system. Note there was no effect on processing signups and transactions….
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Founder’s Corner – Advances in AI Used for Software Development
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. AI based software development tools have made a couple of very large advances in the past 6 months or so. They are so dramatic, that Salesforce CEO announced in a recent earnings call that they are seeing a…
Read MoreMajor Database Upgrades
We are in the midst of doing a major database upgrade from Amazon Aurora V2 to V3 as part of our recurring infrastructure maintenance and improvements. This is a fairly major upgrade as it also includes an upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to…
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2024 Thanksgiving Infrastructure Report
Thanksgiving Infrastructure Report Thanksgiving is the biggest day of the year for the endurance community. This year, we had 936 Trots use us to sign up over 1.1 Million participants for trots on Thanksgiving morning on the RunSignup Platform. That is up…
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