tFS: Happy 4th of July!
July 3rd, 2009 by Rick
All of us here @ theFreshScent want to wish everyone a sick ass 4th of July weekend. We’ll be enjoying the Independence Day weekend ourselves with some tasty microbrews and BBQ and promptly will be back with some fresh posts for Monday.
As always, consume in moderation, and keep away from those pesky sobriety checkpoints. They are a serious, serious drag.
Until then… Cheers!
tFS Gear: theFreshRepublic
June 12th, 2009 by Alex
We dropped a sneak peek of our new tee design late last week, now it’s time for a look at the full frontal (and back-al).
The goal was to play off our California roots, hence the Bear Flag design base. When originating some concepts, we started with the tried-and-true centered design and then replaced the lone star with a lone marijuana leaf. The tee looked good, but the design blends in and doesn’t have any real impact.
Impact is good, we always strive to be bigger and better, so why not make our design bigger and better? It was time to magnify, but where the hell do you put a giant flag print?
After some trial, some error and some light cursing – we settled on a left-side print location. Bear face to the front, bear ass to the back. Everything else worked out pretty smoothly.
As we speak, this limited edition run is coming out of the screen printers. We’ll be picking them up on Friday and handing them out to a lucky few at the THC Expo. Not local? No worries, whatever we keep will be available for purchase on theFreshScent.
Let us know what you think, and expect many more custom designs in the future.
Sneakin’ and Peakin’
June 4th, 2009 by Alex
The THC Expo is coming up (June 13-14th @ LA Convention Center) and we’ve decided to prep some fresh tFS gear for the occasion.
While we wait for the printers to do their thing, here’s a tiny sneak peek. Coming soon to a back near you, expect an update late next week.
- tFS Team
theFreshScent Undergoes Re-Structuring
March 16th, 2009 by TimtFS Readers,
Thought I’d set your minds at ease that despite what you’ve heard or guessed, no, theFreshScent isn’t dead. We didn’t get captured by the feds, and the core remains alive and kickin’.
We’re in the process of re-structuring how we execute the tFS vision, which basically means a new take on how we approach the crowded world of Counter-Culture news. This will take some time to get sorted out, but once we’re back up, you can bet things will be going full steam ahead, better than ever.
Don’t be discouraged, you will hear back from us soon once house-keeping is complete. I want to thank everybody for their continued visits and patience. We promise not to disappoint when we’re back live.
Keep it fresh.
Tim
Lost Content
February 3rd, 2009 by AlextFS was subject to an attack that brought down our hosting service just a short while ago. As it stands, we’ve lost a little under a day’s worth of content, and all of the ensuing comments (including the hilarious Rainbow Cake thread) from this Tuesday.
We’re working to figure out the source, cause and remedy. This is a new one, so bear with us.
Thanks.
Update: All in all, we’ve lost 4 total posts and close to 20 comments – almost all on the Rainbow Cake post.
We’re working with our hosting provider to diagnose the problem, but since our backups run nightly, there’s a high chance these posts / comments will be lost for good. Hopefully, that’s not the case, but it isn’t looking great right now. Expect another update once we get a final word from our techs.
Thanks everyone, and we apologize for some asshole (or group of assholes) out there causing this inconvenience.
Final Update: Boom. The great staff over at BulletHost diagnosed the problem, found a fix, and restored all of our posts and your comments.
Turns out it wasn’t any sort of malicious behavior, tFS received a massive amount of traffic from StumbleUpon, which combined with our generally “load heavy” website to cause some serious server stress. This actually corrupted some of our database tables, which have now been manually restored.
Over the upcoming weekend, we’ll work on optimizing tFS so that it’s more lightweight and prepared for any large influxes of traffic that come in the future. In the meantime, if you want a hosting company that cares, we highly recommend BulletHost.
Thanks for the patience everyone, we’ll have some fresh content for you all tomorrow.
+ tFS Team
theFreshScent: RSS Changes
January 22nd, 2009 by Alex
If you’ve opened your RSS reader today or navigated over to Bloglines, there’s a small chance a broken URL for theFreshScent will appear. That shouldn’t be happening, but we made backend changes that might cause some breakage, now here’s the heads up & a quick explanation.
We’ve been experiencing technical issues with our separate RSS feeds (via FeedBurner), and also had an internal debate about their set-up, so a few minor changes have been made.
First, and this is important, theFreshScent RSS URL has changed.
Please re-add (or edit your existing link) to this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tfsrss
Second, there is no more partial content feed, only full content. In retrospect, partial anything is a waste of time, and we want as many people on top of our content as possible. Don’t worry about having to clickthrough to the site anymore, read until you’re sick of us.
Third, and this one is minor, we’ve upped the number of posts within the RSS feed from 10 to 15. Bigger isn’t always better, but the 10 latest articles barely covers 2 days of our posts, so we wanted to up that a little bit.
As always, you guys are awesome, sorry for this inconvenience.
tFS: Happy Holidays 2008
December 25th, 2008 by Alex
The time has come for us to slow down over the holiday season, but first we want to wish all our readers a Happy Holidays and New Year. It’s time to kick back by the fire and get some relax time on the books.
We’ve had an amazing last 1/3rd of 2008 with our site re-launch and want to thank everyone who visits tFS for making it grow into one of the most unique blogs on the internet.
Posting will be intermittent while we work on new content for the upcoming year, so don’t get too feisty.
We’ve got some big plans for 2009, stick around and you’ll see what we mean. Keep it fresh and we’ll see you on the flip side.
+ theFreshScent Team
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27th, 2008 by Tim
Hey guys, we’re taking off early for the week to prepare ourselves for some mighty feastings but don’t fret. theFreshScent will be back on Monday Dec. 1, ready to roll with fresh new posts and to spice things up, maybe we’ll chuck in an announcement or two, absolutely free of charge.
Until then, Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
