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adactio replied on November 17, 2008 21:42 to the problem "Signup form incorrectly rejecting valid e-mail address" in Huffduffer:

I think I've fixed the problem. I decided to abandon regular expressions completely and just look for an "@" and a "." somewhere in the string.

adactio replied on November 17, 2008 21:38 to the problem "No m4a support?" in Huffduffer:

Okay. It should be catching .mp4 files now. The form checks for content-types of "content-stream" as well as "audio". Seems to work for the Boxes and Arrows material. It should work for any other .m4a files too.

adactio replied on November 14, 2008 09:41 to the idea "AJAX comments?" in Huffduffer:

That's a good idea. I'll look into implementing an Ajax submission for comments, hopefully some time in next week.

adactio replied on November 06, 2008 15:18 to the problem "Signup form incorrectly rejecting valid e-mail address" in Huffduffer:

Once again my lack of regular expression skills is biting me on the ass. Clearly the form validation is being too clever. I'll simplify it as best as I can.

adactio replied on November 06, 2008 15:16 to the problem "Can't huffduff a particular speechification mp3" in Huffduffer:

I'm quite sure exactly what the problem is but in any case, it lies with my lack of ability with regular expressions when I'm trying to extract mp3 files from the source of an HTML document. I'll do what I can to fix this but if anybody out there has l33t regular expressions skillz and might have some time to help me out, please let me know.

adactio replied on November 06, 2008 15:14 to the problem "No m4a support?" in Huffduffer:

Hmmm... right now what happens is that I do quick header request to the file and check to make sure the content-type contains the string "audio". Theoretically this should catch m4a files (content-type: audio/mp4a-latm).

Either Boxes and Arrows is serving up m4a files with the wrong mime-type or (more likely) I'm doing something wrong in my code. I'll look into this as soon as I have a chance (I'm travelling right now so it might be a little while until I can roll out a fix).

adactio replied on November 02, 2008 16:08 to the problem "Tag urls don't uniquely show podcasts" in Huffduffer:

I've now also updated the search functionality so that it no longer returns duplicates.

adactio replied on November 02, 2008 12:39 to the idea "It's important to get statistics." in Huffduffer:

The thing is, people aren't necessarily going to listen on the site. A lot (most?) people will listen later on their iPods rather than on the site. So statistics of listening would be very inaccurate. A more meaningful statistic is "how many other people have huffduffed this" which is currently shown at the URL for anything that's been huffduffed ( it's the same measurement that powers the "Popular" list: http://huffduffer.com/popular ).

Also, I'm not sure if everybody really cares whether anyone is listening to what they're huffduffing: I'm sure a lot of people will be huffduffing purely for themselves (in the same way that they would save bookmarks on Delicious, for example, purely for themselves): aggregate values like "popularity" are secondary to the primary value of "*I* want to listen to this." But I take your point that it's nice to see if other people are enjoying what you're huffduffing.

So right now there are very fuzzy statistics in the shape of "Also huffduffed as..." and "Comments". For example: http://huffduffer.com/skeletalmotive/622
These give a rough idea of the level of interest around a file. Like I said, I don't think it's possible to get any accurate measurements of listening, so any statistics would have to be based around how many people have huffduffed the same file and/or how many people have commented on it.

I'll see if there are any other statistics that can be surfaced but I'm afraid listening stats won't be among them.

Thanks for the feedback; much appreciated.

adactio replied on November 01, 2008 18:10 to the problem "Bad dates, Indy" in Huffduffer:

Right, I think I've managed to nail this one. GMT is the timezone of choice now. And your profile now reads that you have been huffduffing since October 31st, Dom.

adactio replied on November 01, 2008 14:02 to the problem "Tag urls don't uniquely show podcasts" in Huffduffer:

On balance, I think you're right. I've decided to now only return *distinct* files when browsing by tag. Though this might technically be incorrect because the same file may have been huffduffed and tagged by many people, I think you have a good point that it feels wrong when the same file is returned multiple times.

Note that this currently applies just to browsing by tag; I haven't changed the site search so that will still return the same file more than once in search results. I may have to work on that.

adactio replied on October 31, 2008 18:16 to the problem "Bad dates, Indy" in Huffduffer:

Yes, the server is set to Australian time. I can look into adjusting to something like, say, UTC but of course, no matter what the server time is, it's always going to be off for some (most?) people.

adactio replied on October 31, 2008 18:12 to the problem "Tag urls don't uniquely show podcasts" in Huffduffer:

That is the desired behaviour: to show everything tagged with "dconstruct08". That means if the same file has been huffduffed more than once, it will show up multiple times.

I agree that this looks a bit weird when everyone is using the same title, description and tags (re-huffduffing stuff) but otherwise it's interesting how different people have titled/described/tagged the same file.

adactio replied on October 30, 2008 23:56 to the idea "Ubiquity Command Please?" in Huffduffer:

Nice! Thanks for that.

adactio replied on October 30, 2008 18:06 to the problem "Add search engine, results in error" in Huffduffer:

Good catch. I've tinkered a bit and I think it's fixed now.

adactio replied on October 30, 2008 01:17 to the problem "Small time stamp issue" in Huffduffer:

I *think* this issue is fixed now but if you spot any recurrences, please let me know.

adactio replied on October 29, 2008 18:06 to the problem "Ampersand isn't escaped" in Huffduffer:

Excellent. There's an unrelated issue with a timestamp but the ampersand encoding has been fixed. Thanks for that.

adactio set one of adactio's replies as an official response to "Why add links to Elsewhere without asking?" in Huffduffer

adactio replied on October 29, 2008 01:36 to the question "Why add links to Elsewhere without asking?" in Huffduffer:

Okay, I've tightened up the way that the "Elsewhere" linking works. As of now, links will only show up if they are reciprocal.

For example, if you enter "example.com" as your URL, your Flickr account and Twitter account will only show up if they are linking to "example.com" *and* somewhere on example.com, you are linking to your Flickr and Twitter accounts with rel="me".

This means the lists will be a lot smaller but they will only contained confirmed claims.

adactio replied on October 28, 2008 22:25 to the problem "Ampersand isn't escaped" in Huffduffer:

Great catch!

I think I've fixed it now. Have you got the URL of an example feed with an ampersand so that I can run it through feedvalidator.org to test it?

adactio replied on October 28, 2008 18:06 to the question "How do I delete my account?" in Huffduffer:

Right now there's no automated mechanism for deleting accounts. I will build it but I want it to also email any departing users all the data they have put into the system.

For now, if you want to delete your account, just let me know.