Collectible Insider Tip: Send Your Extras as Gifts

By now, I know that many of you have noticed our new Cheezburger Collectibles floating around on the site, and it’s pretty likely you’ve picked up a few for yourself.

But did you know that you can send your extra Collectibles as gifts to friends?

Here’s how:

First, hover over a Collectible that you have multiples of (you’ll recognize these as they have “2x” “3x” or greater next to the Collectible). You should see a gift icon pop up when you hover that looks like this:

send a gift

Once you click the gift icon, you’ll be taken a friend selector screen that looks like this:

From there, choose a friend and hit send. Easy-peasy.

After you send the gift, your friend will get an email that tells them which Collectible that they received and that they can see it on their Trophy page.

The Rules

We do have a couple of rules around sending gifts. You may only send one gift per friend per day. But you can send as many gifts to different friends as long as you have extras. Example, if you send Stefan, Kyall and Crystal an Invisible Bike on Thursday, you can’t send Stefan your extra Karot until Friday.

Bonus
Hope that clears things up a bit around sending gifts. As a little bonus, the first 5 commenters who include their username and a link to their favorite LOL this week will get one of my extra Thermometers.

 

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Introducing Cheezburger Collectible Trophies

A few months ago, we launched Cheezburger Trophies, a new feature that recognized the valuable contributions that our Cheezfriends make to our sites. And they have been mighty popular!

Today, we’re launching a new addition to the Trophies program, Cheezburger Collectible Trophies.

How it works

Invisible Bike Collectible

Invisible Bike Collectible

Each day that you visit, you’ll have an opportunity to receive a new Collectible. You will be notified when you receive one and you can check them out on your Trophies page. Some Collectibles are harder to get than others and you might get more than one of the same Collectible.

I have extra Collectibles. What do I do with them?
You can give your extra Collectibles away as gifts to other people Cheezburger.com. They might have some Collectibles that you don’t have and you might have some they don’t have, so it pays to check out their Trophy page to see what they are missing.

How do I get ALL of them?
Coming back every day and trading with your friends is the free, and sure fire way to get all the Collectibles we have to offer.  (But if you can’t wait to get them all, you can also purchase them with Cheezburger Coins.)

Which sites do I have to visit to get Collectibles?
So far, we’ve only released collectibles to people who are visiting sites in the I Can Has Cheezburger? family of sites (including I Has a Hot Dog, Daily Squee, Happy Chair is Happy & Historic LOLs). We may release more Collectibles to our other sites across the network, but as always, your feedback is important. Let us know how you like our new Collectibles.

Don’t have many friends on Cheezburger.com?
We’ve just introduced the new and privacy-improved friend finder to find your friends already on Cheezburger.com.

 

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Announcing Cheezburger Trophies

You may have already noticed, that yesterday, we launched Cheezburger Trophies, a new feature, across the Cheezburger Network.

What are Cheezburger Trophies?

Cheezburger Trophies are a way for people to show off some of the great things they do on sites across the Cheezburger Network. We’ve starting with a small list of activities that our best members are likely to already be doing: creating and uploading LOLs, voting, and favoriting. We think that Trophies will make our sites even more fun to use.

Here’s a mini-FAQ for Trophies:

Where will I see Trophies?
You can find your existing Trophies inside your Cheezburger Profile under “My Stuff.” The URL is http://cheezburger.com/YOURUSERNAME/trophies. You will also be notified when you earn a Trophy while you are visiting our sites.

Why don’t I have a Trophy for XYZ? I know I’ve done that in the past.
We are starting from a clean slate for Trophies, meaning that any Trophies you receive will be for your activities going forward.

Why don’t you have a Trophy for ABC?
We’ve intentionally started with a small list of Trophies to see how people like them. We may add more Trophies in the future.

Can I see a list of all the Trophies I can earn?
Nope. What fun would that be? :)

Questions, Comments, Concerns?

We’re very excited about this new feature and we really hope that you like it. Please report any problems or suggestions you might have with Trophies to us.

 

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Spit and Polish

We’ve just released an updated version of our sports lolz site, Up Next In Sports. The changes that we’ve made serve as the first step in a series of improvements we have planned for all the sites on the Cheezburger Network.

What did we change?

  1. Added a bigger, bolder, more awesome logo
  2. Added 3 links to the navigation bar (including a link to our new site directory)
  3. Shuffled the right column to the left column. This makes everything fit together more nicely on the site

Why?

We’re tweaking the sites on Cheezburger Network to make them more attractive, more enticing for people to contribute and easier to find new sites and lolz you might like. We have a number of improvements planned and we’ll be releasing them in stages across sites on our network in coming weeks. Forthcoming changes are designed to make it easier for us to launch more sites, with more content and features, and ultimately, a faster, better overall experience.

Comments

We’d love to get your comments as we make these changes. Without your contributions of funny pictures, captions, comments, and votes, sites on the Cheezburger Network wouldn’t be much fun to visit, so we hope you like the changes we’ve made.

 

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Introducing the Cheezburger Site Directory

Did you know that Cheezburger publishes a growing family of 34 humor sites? Well if you didn’t, you’re not alone. Until I started working here a few months ago, I didn’t either.

We’re taking the first step in changing that today.

We proudly present the Cheezburger Site Directory for your viewing pleasure. It’s a handy index of all the sites that we make here at Cheezburger HQ. Sites in the Directory include familiar favorites, like I Can Has Cheezburger and FAILblog as well as all of our newer sites such as:

We’re creating new sites regularly (usually one a week), so if you always want the latest in Internet funny, check back often.

 

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