The Tools We Use To Stay Afloat

Like many people we’re used to working with Jira and other big tools for project management. These tools work quite well for large projects and teams. But at Colloq where…

How Our Password Check Works

Security and privacy are a big concern for us at Colloq and we do take it seriously. We want to make Colloq a safe and secure platform and are taking certain measures to help ensure it is and stays this way. Because of that, our platform features an advanced password validity…

Sprint 40: Improved Create Events & Nicer Error Pages

Custom Error Page Design

We didn’t like the default error pages we served previously very much so we replaced them with a nice custom layout. You can view the new design of our pages here:

Sort Your Sponsors & Speakerdeck Coverage Support

Sort Your Sponsors

We know that having a custom sort oder for sponsors is crucial for some events to show the most valuable sponsors first. Since today, all Premium and Professional organizer accounts have…

Securing Platform Stability With Acceptance Testing

How we ensure that our permission models on the platform work as expected? With Acceptance tests we test these scenarios and revealed a couple of bugs…

Remote Managing A Side-Project Across The Globe

At Colloq, we are three freelancers with a regular project workload. We’re distributed across the globe. This article is about how we now manage to work…

More Coverage Services & Embedding Colloq

Coverage Now Supports YouTube And Slideshare

This week we added two additional services to our link parser to provide a better experience for our users. Over time, we will add more, but for now you can…

Hello World. Hello Colloq.

The story of Colloq began at a conference. We’ve been going to Beyond Tellerrand in Germany for a few years and always talked about a better way to preserve the excellent content that conferences produce and make it available to people who want to learn, but couldn’t be there. It…

What‘s New: Improved Event Suggestion Handling and Subscription Feature Explanations

Every week we are working to improve the overall experience on Colloq, fix bugs and add new features. Since some of these changes aren‘t visible right away, we like to publish what we…