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Chris Heald replied on December 14, 2009 23:06 to the problem "connect to Twitter, Facebook not working" in blippr:

Doh. We must've missed a template. I'll get that pushed out.

A comment on the question "How to merge two entries?" in blippr:

You can't at the moment. We'll be adding a feature to do that shortly. – Chris Heald, on December 08, 2009 22:35

Chris Heald replied on December 08, 2009 21:03 to the question "How to merge two entries?" in blippr:

We have administrator tools that provide the ability to do this, and we run through and do merge sweeps periodically. That said, there was a suggestion that we allow people to mark titles for merging, which is a fantastic idea. Look for that in the near future! :)

Chris Heald replied on December 05, 2009 20:01 to the question "Lots of page load errors" in blippr:

We had a few issues with our most recent deploy. We're fixing them up as fast as we can. :)

Chris Heald replied on November 30, 2009 17:22 to the problem "Edit Services page doesn't load on Opera 10.10 (browser)" in blippr:

Sorry for the issues, Evandro. We'll have a fix out shortly.

Chris Heald replied on November 23, 2009 17:13 to the problem "blippr to twitter cut-off doesn't include blippr link" in blippr:

I think we have it set so that it'll truncate the review + link to 160 characters, which is twitter's "hidden" max limit (you only see 140 in the feed, but if you click through to the tweet, you see the full 160).

That said, there's something to be said for it all fitting in the feed. I'll bring the issue up internally. :)

Chris Heald replied on November 21, 2009 22:06 to the idea "REQUEST: Advanced API Filter Options" in blippr:

All very reasonable. Our API right now is a fairly dumb set of alternate views on top of the existing RESTful interface we've built, so it's somewhat brittle. However, we're working internally on cleaning up a lot of that brittleness, and one of the benefits will very definitely be a more flexible API.

I'm not quite sure how to provide something like the "extras" you mention in the context of our code just yet, but we very much recognize that the current structure is less than fantastic. The goal would be to expose just about any data on the site (with the right credentials, of course) in a way that has the least overhead and the most flexibility. We're certainly not there yet, but we're working in that direction.

The next major push of the site is going to see a large number of API changes, since we're streamlining a lot of these various things we've had problems with in the past. One of the goals is to have a much more usable API as a result!

Chris Heald replied on November 21, 2009 17:30 to the question "Wordpress: Key/Secret" in blippr:

You should be able to look it up at your partner page (for example, http://www.blippr.com/partners/alex). You won't have a key/secret until your site has been approved for syndication (we manually review applications to prevent blogspam), but can use the plugin successfully without it.

If you'll link me to your partner profile, I'll review it right away. :)

Chris Heald replied on November 21, 2009 06:15 to the problem "Timezone problem" in blippr:

Consider it done. I just added it to the development codebase, and it'll be in the next push.

Chris Heald replied on November 17, 2009 22:01 to the idea "Editing titles issues" in blippr:

Before an account is considered "mature", it only has edit permissions on nodes it creates - that is correct. Matured accounts can edit any title that hasn't been locked by a moderator. This is, naturally, done to prevent vandalism abuse by throwaway accounts.

I'll double-check the rules for what's considered to be a mature account, though.

Chris Heald replied on November 16, 2009 16:40 to the problem "Empty opinion field not saving properly" in blippr:

The UI -shouldn't- be allowing that, but it's a problem that we've continued to fight. GetSatisfaction is telling me that you're on Firefox on a Mac? I'm thinking it might be a platform-related issue, but I've been unable to really nail it down. I'll bump it up in the bug list. Thanks!

Chris Heald replied on November 16, 2009 16:38 to the question "No Movie Year?" in blippr:

You're definitely right. We've tried to avoid putting too much metadata into each title, but we're finding that year is needed to uniquely identify items. I'll make sure that a year field gets in for the next version!

Chris Heald replied on November 16, 2009 16:37 to the idea "Favorites ordered/organized" in blippr:

Good news! We have some very cool features coming very soon that will let you build ranked lists of your favorites and such!

Chris Heald replied on November 16, 2009 16:36 to the idea "Auto-hyperlink" in blippr:

We do, for users that are sufficiently established. The exact formula is a littel magical, but the intent is to deter throwaway/spam accounts by preventing linking for new accounts. Once an account has matured a bit, any hyperlinks in it should become automatically linked.

A comment on the problem ""Add Movie" not working" in blippr:

"Mark for deletion" is an excellent idea. We've been wanting to give the community more tools to help moderate blippr's content, but obviously giving full delete powers to the internet at large is dangerous. I like the idea.

Can you elaborate on the behavior you were seeing with it "not working"? What point does it slow down and get confusing. I'm afraid I'm so close to the codebase that it seems to work correctly for me, but then, I know what to expect! – Chris Heald, on November 16, 2009 16:35

Chris Heald replied on November 16, 2009 16:33 to the problem "Blip input text-field (160 char limit)" in blippr:

Heh, indeed. We've been back and forth on this problem. It's a bit wonky right now, just due to how Javascript, keypresses, and form fields interact. Your suggestion is a good one, though, and I'll bring it up for consideration!

Chris Heald replied on November 08, 2009 20:39 to the problem "Trouble in Edit_Page" in blippr:

Can you elaborate? Which URL is failing for you?

Chris Heald replied on November 08, 2009 05:06 to the problem "{"errors":{"error":"XML, JSON, or YAML requests must be made through the API","code":"401"}} problem" in blippr:

Ack, you're right. We made a change recently to cause misbehaved search engines to not get a huge rash of 404 errors when they crawl the site, and this was caught in the crossfire. It should be fixed now.

Chris Heald replied on November 07, 2009 02:26 to the problem "Xbox and last.fm connection is not working" in blippr:

We were using Duncan Mackenzie's XBox Live REST API, but it seems to be offline. We're exploring some other options, though they are less clean!

Chris Heald replied on November 06, 2009 12:00 to the problem "Xbox and last.fm connection is not working" in blippr:

The service that provided our XBox data has gone offline recently. We'll have a replacement pushed pretty shortly (with some other goodies, too!)

The Last.fm connection problem is new - I'll check it out ASAP.