Boiledbeans turned 10 years old today! We have printed some nifty Boiledbeans stickers. Fill the form below and we will send you some!

Question for today: Identify this spacecraft, also launched 10 years ago.

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Cracked by: Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo and Tej

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Phoenix Mars lander!

The mad scientist should be tweeting and posting to Facebook again. Lets see if that works.

Boiledbeans turned 6 years old today!

While we posted one question per day without fail for the first 5 years, this 6th year was hard. Questions came up sporadically, spam-bots seemed to have taken over our comment systems and our medal systems broke down. But, Boiledbeans is far from dead. We will be back to our posting schedule (or a new schedule) soon.

Stay Tuned!

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Some of you may have noticed that the site was down for a couple of hours earlier today. This was unscheduled downtime: we found some security issues on the site today and cut off access to the site to make sure nothing serious had been affected. Possibly, one or more of the Wordpress plugins we run were compromised and we had some malware resident on our servers. To the best of our knowledge, none of this code was ever executed. Even if it was, we believe that at best it may have been someone poking around trying to find issues on our site, and we don’t think they found any.

We have cleaned up all traces of it for now, and we will continue to take down and test parts of the site over the next couple of weeks to ensure that everything is clean. You may see significant look/feel differences, and parts of the site may be down temporarily as we try to clean them up. Consider it a much-delayed spring cleaning :)

At this point, we have a few requests for you folks:

Please do not reuse usernames and passwords across websites! This is the only major data loss possible via Boiledbeans, and we try our best to ensure that your data is safe/secure. We don’t store any sensitive information from you, except your usernames and email addresses. Your passwords are stored hashed/salted too, so we have no way of seeing them. You can never be too careful with data privacy on the internet, and we want to ensure you’re even more paranoid than you think you have to be :)

Let us know if any of the bits of our site are broken! This is usually a very simple way for us to figure out that something’s changed or broken and we can get things fixed immediately. It may even point to larger problems - like malware that’s managed to actually affect something. In case this is something we have ‘scheduled’ or broken on purpose, we’d still love to know.

Flag any spam/senseless comments that you see! Sometimes our spam filters let comments through. Some of these spam comments seem to be from various bots poking around and probing for vulnerabilities, and trying to dump malware on the site. If you see any of these please do let us know.

As always, we’re available at [email protected].

Thanks for your help in advance, and happy quizzing!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Boiledbeans turned 5 years old today! It has been a super amazing experience for the two of us and we have enjoyed every bit of it, thanks to the awesome community we have here.

We covered memes before they were annoying, we covered XKCD before it was famous and we knew about moot before everyone. We have covered so many topics on BB that these days, it takes us a good amount of searching before we can get to a “good” question.

5 years ago, iPhone had just launched, Facebook was “small”, MySpace was popular, the Poincare conjecture was still unproven!

So, 5 years is no short time and you have kept us running for so long! Your awesomeness has no limits!

Here are some of the things we have done:

One post every day with atleast one question. without fail for 5 years!

of which

and

including theme rounds, treasure hunts, puzzles…

Which contained…

On which you posted

and we automatically had..

And all this has been possible because of our

Of whom, more than 1300 people have more than 1 point.

I am so happy and excited that I can go on writing about the awesome stuff we have done. But I will only put one last thing here, and that is

We have some interesting announcements coming up, so stay tuned. Here is our first ever logo

**Bon(g)us question for the day: **Website X started out as a free web-space provider for the founder’s classmates. Later completely transformed into a blog. Which website? What did it transform into?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla and Anjul

The twitter issue should be fixed now. If you all see this going down again, please do let us know - email us at [email protected] or tweet @boiledbeans!

It looks like our site’s automatic posts to Twitter are broken :(

We’re looking into it and we’ll try to get it back up ASAP.

Hello Dear BB Users,

Time has come to offer you

Cake. Send your guest questions to [email protected] and if 2 or more of your questions get published within this week, you will get Cake.

It will automatically appear on your profile page.

And it’s not a lie! I am not GladOS. Check the comment I have left on this post, I have awarded myself Cake.

All Cake hopefuls, send questions to [email protected]

Hi folks,

We just heard that posts from unregistered users are failing. We’re looking into it and we’ll extend answer deadlines if need be.

In the meantime, till we get the issue fixed, the quickest way to post would be to create an account for yourself.

[update - 15 Jun, 1620 PST]

The issue is fixed now. Please do let us know at [email protected] if you continue to see any problems.

Sorry folks. Looks like last nights question was a blatant repeat, so we’ve gotten rid of it. I’ll be posting another one soon.