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Girlwithaonetrackmind replied on August 21, 2008 11:38 to the problem "The Dopplr Facebook app does not post to feeds" in Dopplr:

I was having this problem too... I'm about to go travelling, so have uninstalled and reinstalled the app on Facebook, in the hope it'll make announcements in my mini/news feed now! Fingers crossed. :)

Matt Biddulph replied on August 18, 2008 11:38 to the problem "The Dopplr Facebook app does not post to feeds" in Dopplr:

It's also working for me right now (screenshot below) but some people are clearly having problems. I suspect problems with the "new" Facebook too. We're looking into it.

cewood replied on August 12, 2008 22:03 to the idea "It'd be great to add a trip from someone else's itinerary." in Dopplr:

Great idea, but its current implementation is quite poor sadly.

Namely that it does not recognise multi-part trips, so I have to copy each individual stop, and then when it copies it does not maintain them as a multi-part trip, and there is no way that I have found to merge them into an existing trip either, so im stuck with 10 separate trips now, with no indications of where I will be travelling from etc.

What is really required for multi-part trips is the ability to define an empty trip, like a place holder, and then move actual trips into that place holder.

And in place of the copy feature what needs to happen is something along the lines of being able to specify trip participants, so rather than it making a copy of a the trip that isn't needed you can simply specify that you are going on that trip, and have it appear in your trip list.

In the case that someone does genuinely want to copy a trip from another user, then it should definitely preserve the multi-part elements if any of a trip.

Does this make sense to everyone, feedback is welcome of course.

When can I expect to see this rolled out :)

mape replied on August 12, 2008 17:25 to the problem "Problem adding notes via sms" in Dopplr:

For me using http://m.twitter.com is no solution, because it's very expensive using internet from my mobile, specially in a foreign country. SMS is free, even abroad.
For me it would much better (I think for a lot of other people too), to add notes to trip via sms. Maybe there is someday a solution, like giving each stop a special-tag and then I can write a sms ">specialtag this is my note" or something like that.

ifrit marked one of Matt Biddulph's replies in Dopplr as useful. Matt Biddulph replied to the question "is there a way to add past trips?".

A comment on the question "is there a way to add past trips?" in Dopplr:

I've added a ton of past trips via email but can't figure out how to view them without going to my public profile. What am I missing? – EricaJoy, on August 11, 2008 13:45

Matt Biddulph replied on August 11, 2008 11:16 to the problem "Problem adding notes via sms" in Dopplr:

The behaviour of our SMS handling changed about a month ago. Instead of using "command-line" style instructions, it's now used for adding trips using natural language.

You can read more about this at http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/07/08/new...

Thanks to your message we've realised there are a few places where we haven't changed the documentation to explain the new behaviour.

If you want to add notes on the go, we'd suggest using our mobile-optimised website at http://m.twitter.com

skirocky replied on August 07, 2008 14:07 to the problem "Dopplr needs a geography lesson!" in Dopplr:

Also, I had the same problem when a friend of mine got married in Jamaica. It would have been nice to have used the name of the resort, not the resort town in Jamaica.

What about if we manually type in entries that aren't in the database? If you want to track the metadata for Dopplr's statistical purposes (e.g., "state of travel 2008"), then you could add a Google Earth function right on Dopplr allowing me to put a thumbtack on the map where the resort should be placed if it were to exist in your DB.

~Chris

skirocky replied on August 07, 2008 14:03 to the problem "Dopplr needs a geography lesson!" in Dopplr:

@Matt Bidulph: I have a rock climbing / mountaineering trip to Bugaboo Provincial Park (British Columbia) planned for late August. Even with the Geonames additions, the park -- an official park maintained by the BC govt -- isn't showing up on Dopplr.

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/expl...

I had trouble figuring out how to add it into the Geonames database (assuming that I can). Either way, it's annoying if I have to go in and add another destination in Geonames every time I want to add a trip (mountain ranges, for instance). When people read "Radium Hot Springs, BC" they don't get it; when they read "Bugaboo Range" or "Bugaboo Provincial Park" they would probably get it.

I realize that this is not an easy problem for Dopplr to address, but wanted to let you know that it's very important to me. (although maybe not so much to ppl who aren't amateur mountaineers/adventurers)

Chris

Girlwitha1trackmind replied on August 07, 2008 10:35 to the problem "Bug: uploading new profile pic does not replace old picture in 'public profile'" in Dopplr:

Hurrah! Thank you!

Matt Biddulph replied on August 07, 2008 10:10 to the problem "Dopplr needs a geography lesson!" in Dopplr:

For everyone who visited this topic over the last few months, I just wanted to note that as of June 12th 2008 we've been importing the full geonames.org dataset into our database, and taking their nightly feed of updates. There's more detail in our blog post at:

http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/06/12/24-...

If there are places you want listed in Dopplr that still aren't available, please let us know.

Thanks for sticking with us while we reached this milestone.

mattb replied on August 07, 2008 10:03 to the problem "Bug: uploading new profile pic does not replace old picture in 'public profile'" in Dopplr:

Oh, and for your profile specifically I've refreshed the cache, so your page is now fixed.

mattb replied on August 07, 2008 10:01 to the problem "Bug: uploading new profile pic does not replace old picture in 'public profile'" in Dopplr:

Congratulations, you've found a bug. Because public profiles are visible to the whole internet, we cache a lot of the information on those pages to stop our database catching fire if one suddenly got a lot of traffic from somewhere.

Whenever you change something about your trips or your account, we're supposed to throw away the cached information and refresh it from the database. But changing your profile picture was one case we missed. We've fixed it in our codebase and you'll see it change when we deploy the new version to the servers this week.

Dan replied on August 05, 2008 14:25 to the question "What do the various colours on your dopplr profile mean?" in Dopplr:

Nicola, the city colors are fixed at this point. As you visit different cities you'll see more colors.

Nicola Joiner replied on August 04, 2008 13:37 to the question "What do the various colours on your dopplr profile mean?" in Dopplr:

Any chance I can get some more colour? I'm just getting a random mix of greens & the odd black blob!

mattb replied on August 04, 2008 12:32 to the question "What do the various colours on your dopplr profile mean?" in Dopplr:

It's all explained in this post on our blog:

http://blog.dopplr.com/2007/10/23/in-...

Nicola Joiner replied on August 04, 2008 12:25 to the question "is there a way to add past trips?" in Dopplr:

You can - just add it like a future trip. I added three past ones in the last hour (just updating as I've been slack lately!) so it must work!

Celia replied on August 04, 2008 11:06 to the question "is there a way to add past trips?" in Dopplr:

You should be able to add past trips - we've had this feature for a little while now. Please let us know if you're experiencing problems.

mattb replied on August 04, 2008 10:51 to the problem "Twitter account linking problem" in Dopplr:

This morning we discovered a bug that has affected about 60 Dopplr accounts, including yours. It meant that when you sent us a message to associate your account with your Twitter account so that you could send us trips, it didn't work correctly.

We've just fixed the bug and deployed new code to our servers. If you'd like to try again starting at http://www.dopplr.com/account/twitter then the process should now work.

I'm sorry for this problem, and hope you enjoy using our new Twitter feature.

pjbury replied on July 30, 2008 14:03 to the question "is there a way to add past trips?" in Dopplr:

absolutely missing! see 'where am I' (in Facebook) as the way to go!