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acordova started following the problem "Defaulting notifications to on is wrong." in Gowalla.

acordova started following the problem "Categories and subcategories should be cached - not downloaded on every spot creation" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "Photos of Spots" in Gowalla.

acordova marked one of Josh Williams' replies in Gowalla as useful. Josh Williams replied to the problem "Spots Not Appearing in iPhone App".

acordova started following the idea "Gowalla API" in Gowalla.

acordova replied on November 09, 2009 00:27 to the problem "several duplicate spots to be merged..." in Gowalla:

Done and done. I need to find something else to do on a Sunday :P

A comment on the problem "Spots Not Appearing in iPhone App" in Gowalla:

Sweet, sounds good. I guess this is a good problem to have, since it means people are making a lot of spots :) – acordova, on November 08, 2009 23:46

acordova started following the problem "Need to retrieve icons from vault." in Gowalla.

acordova reported a problem in Gowalla on November 08, 2009 23:28:

Spots Not Appearing in iPhone App

I am starting to run into the issue of the iPhone app not displaying all the available spots, most likely due to the sheer number of spots being created. This is starting to lead to more duplicates. Is there a limit to the amount of spots the iPhone app will display? If it's a load time issue, a "Load More Spots" button could be added at the bottom of the UITableView.

No issue on loading the spots on the website (haven't tested on the new mobile site).

acordova started following the question "What's up with all the icons / items that aren't in the Missing tab?" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the question "What's up with all the icons / items that aren't in the Missing tab?" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "Identification of Street Team Elite members" in Gowalla.

acordova started following the idea "List View / Icon View switch" in Gowalla.

acordova replied on November 07, 2009 01:25 to the problem "SMS? web is crashing my phone." in Gowalla:

What phone do you have? Are you using the new mobile site, or the regular gowalla.com?

acordova replied on November 07, 2009 00:27 to the problem "No Items" in Gowalla:

I think joescales was having this problem yesterday, only it was with the vault instead of the items. Not sure if it was fixed, but I couldn't recreate the issue fwiw.

A comment on the question "Nominate Spots for Deletion/Deactivation?" in Gowalla:

I had the same thought. Like I said, it's a tricky situation and I was hesitant to even bring it up. But imo, I see things like generic bus stops and mailboxes as spam, no matter how you play Gowalla.

It's hard to say what would happen if the spot got recreated, but I'd think it'd be like dealing with duplicates: deal with them as they come up. – acordova, on November 07, 2009 00:23

acordova asked a question in Gowalla on November 07, 2009 00:06:

Nominate Spots for Deletion/Deactivation?

So I'm sure this is going to step on a few toes, but I figured I'd ask.

Is there a process to nominate spots for deletion or deactivation? I don't want to name names, but in San Francisco I'm starting to see a lot of spots being created for things like mailboxes and every stop for certain bus lines. If there were something special about these places I could understand creating a spot for it, but creating a spot for every 38-Geary bus stop seems a bit excessive.

That being said, I personally would rather see spots get deactivated instead of deleted. This way, no other user can check into the spot, but the spot creator doesn't get punished (as in, making their checkin count go down) for creating the spot. This is already somewhat done for limited edition spots. Theoretically, though, this could be used to game Gowalla to get the spot-creation-related pins (even though I don't see a real reason someone would do that).

The gray area: What about chains? What would be the guidelines for a "delete-worthy" spot? You can probably tell, going down this road could get messy.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

acordova started following the question "Edit spot getting a No Method Error" in Gowalla.

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 21:38 to the problem "New website URL feature problem" in Gowalla:

Also, adding https (secure http) causes the parser to freak out: e.g. https://cakefinancial.com turns into www.https://cakefinancial.com.



Sent this one to Josh already, fwiw.

acordova replied on November 05, 2009 19:12 to the problem "Duplicate spot in Garland" in Gowalla:

Fixed