Jonathan Grubb's dashboard

Jonathan Grubb reported a problem in NeighborGoods on October 09, 2009 23:18:

Search should default to my zip code.

Search should default to my zip code. It's currently defaulting to "50 miles from [blank]" one some pages, which makes it look like there are not tents to borrow in silverlake. But there ARE tents to borrow in silverlake, I'm gonna borrow one and sleep in it. Go Neighborgoods Go!

Jonathan Grubb started following the idea "Notification email should include the labels of the story" in Pivotal Labs.

Jonathan Grubb replied on October 08, 2009 21:48 to the idea "Add story status and summary in all emails" in Pivotal Labs:

This would be a huge help. I go through 100+ tracker emails each day, and it's always a little difficult to keep track of exactly what's happening on the actual stories.

Jonathan Grubb started following the idea "Add story status and summary in all emails" in Pivotal Labs.

Jonathan Grubb gave praise in Pivotal Labs on June 17, 2009 17:28:

I love the new dashboard!

I love the new dashboard! The activity log will allow me to tune down my email subscriptions. Nice work.

Jonathan Grubb marked one of pixelperfect's replies in Pivotal Labs as useful. pixelperfect replied to the problem "Colored pinwheels driving me nuts.".

Jonathan Grubb marked one of Scott Fleckenstein's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Scott Fleckenstein replied to the problem "status.getsatisfaction.com is being indexed by Bing.com".

Jonathan Grubb replied on June 02, 2009 00:48 to the problem "Colored pinwheels driving me nuts." in Pivotal Labs:

If Tracker is slowing over time it may be that you have a lot of finished stories piling up, which can degrade performance. It could be good to archive your project and start a new one with copies of your current/backlog/icebox stories. I think you can do this by exporting a CSV, deleting the story numbers, deleting finished stories, and re-importing to a new project.

Jonathan Grubb replied on June 02, 2009 00:44 to the question "Multiple Owners Per Story" in Pivotal Labs:

I think the best hacks are:
- Break the story down into chores, and assign each one to an individual.
- Create your user accounts for pairs instead of individuals.

As I understand it, one of the core concepts of XP is individual responsibility for stories (combined with shared responsibility for the whole product) so assigning a story to 2 different people would mean nobody is 100% responsible for it. I'd try to avoid 2 people being 50% responsible; either one person has all responsibility or the pair has all responsibility.

Jonathan Grubb replied on June 02, 2009 00:40 to the question "Show unestimated stories only" in Pivotal Labs:

You could export to CSV and sort by points. Alternatively you could just visually scan for stories with 3 bars on the right side.

Jonathan Grubb replied on June 02, 2009 00:37 to the question "How do I manage people working on two different releases at the same time?" in Pivotal Labs:

As long as they're all working on the same project you're not missing anything: you have a team working on a set of tasks, starting with the most important and working down to the least important. As a whole team, there is no way to work on tasks *except* in linear fashion.

Jonathan Grubb replied on June 02, 2009 00:30 to the idea "It would be great to add tasks to a story" in Pivotal Labs:

I'd love to have this feature. My solution so far: in the story description write out each task. As each is completed, edit the description and add a big (DONE) in front of the task. Easy!

Jonathan Grubb reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on June 01, 2009 16:48:

status.getsatisfaction.com is being indexed by Bing.com

The new Microsoft search engine (and maybe other engines) are indexing the page that shows up during upgrades. Not a huge deal, but it's currently the second result and makes it look like the site is down almost as often as it's up, which we know not to be true. :)

Jonathan Grubb replied on April 13, 2009 03:52 to the question "Minnesota Grown Hydrangea which deer don't eat" in LOUD3R:

Try asking over at http://davesgarden.com/ . They know everything!

Jonathan Grubb replied on March 26, 2009 00:26 to the update "We have a new header!" in Get Satisfaction:

I love the new header! I wish the old logo were still up there, but besides that I'm very happy to see the increased focus on individual companies. The whole thing is much clearer. Nice work everybody.

Jonathan Grubb replied on March 10, 2009 21:40 to the question "Dead links vanishing from search engines" in LOUD3R:

Do you mean Loud3r searches or other search engines like Google?

On loud3r pages a dead link should be removed from search results within a day or so. On Google/Yahoo it depends on how often the page is being crawled. Next time the search engine crawls the site it should mark dead links for removal.

Jonathan Grubb replied on March 05, 2009 17:29 to the problem "Dead link still active" in LOUD3R:

Thanks for the tip. I've removed the story.

Jonathan Grubb replied on February 25, 2009 21:02 to the question "What does the score mean?" in LOUD3R:

Hi Mike.

LOUD3R Scores are based on a bunch of quality and relevancy factors.

The current top story on Decant3r.com has a score of 2880. The breakdown is
Quality: 2618
Community: 96
Buzz: 166

Quality is a number determined by our system based on an analysis of the content, the appearance or relevant topics, the quality of the source as determined by our editors, the inclusion of photos or videos, and a number of other factors.

Community is a number determined by the community's reaction to the story. It may include factors like the number of people who viewed the story, starred the story, shared the story, added comments, etc.

Buzz is based on the growth in popularity of the topics covered in the story. For example, on the day of the Academy Awards the term "Oscar" will be dramatically higher than usual and will get a higher buzz score. Any stories referring to that topic will therefore get a higher score and appear higher on the page.

The relative importance of each factor is determined by the site editors, and will change over time on each site and for each topic.

Jonathan Grubb replied on February 23, 2009 20:55 to the idea "more images with posts" in LOUD3R:

One system we're working on will go search Flickr for related photos with a Creative Commons license that lets us post the whole photo. Another version will pull in full size ad-supported newswire photos using GumGum.

Jonathan Grubb replied on February 23, 2009 20:54 to the idea "picture grid" in LOUD3R:

I love this idea, and we have a prototype version running. When it's finished we'll show "Photo" and "Video" tabs on each site homepage with the newest media content for that site.