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curiousstranger reported a problem in PostRank on June 17, 2009 17:13:

Firefox 3.5 support

Firefox 3.5-RC1 is out, which means a real release is not too far away. Will the extensions be working with 3.5 anytime in the near future? Thanks!

curiousstranger replied on June 17, 2009 17:12 to the question "Uploads stalling" in PostRank:

And the bug strikes again. Never ever ever post an issue here without being logged in. If you log in in-line, it will use an old title and you'll have to start all over again, as you can't edit it.

curiousstranger asked a question in PostRank on June 17, 2009 17:11:

Uploads stalling

Firefox 3.5-RC1 is out, so a real release is in the not too distant future. Any idea when the extensions will support 3.5? Thanks!

curiousstranger replied on June 17, 2009 04:29 to the idea "Strip * when not shortening URL's" in Ping.fm:

http://twitter.com/curiousstranger/st...

curiousstranger replied on June 17, 2009 02:04 to the idea "Strip * when not shortening URL's" in Ping.fm:

It definitely doesn't remove it and I have URL shortening enabled.

curiousstranger shared an idea in Ping.fm on June 16, 2009 20:03:

Strip * when not shortening URL's

When adding a * in front of a URL to avoid shortening, it would make some sense for the * to be stripped from the unshortened URL before posting to other services, as it makes no sense out of context.

curiousstranger marked one of Melanie Baker's replies in PostRank as useful. Melanie Baker replied to the problem "Feeds are not coming through to Greader".

curiousstranger replied on June 08, 2009 20:52 to the problem "Feeds are not coming through to Greader" in PostRank:

Oh ok. Thanks!

curiousstranger replied on June 08, 2009 20:38 to the problem "Feeds are not coming through to Greader" in PostRank:

When you say the "showing-10-posts issue has been changed" I'm not sure what you mean by changed. It was only showing 10 posts per feed until a month or so ago, and then the number of posts per feeds was set to be more dynamic. Has it been changed again since then?

curiousstranger started following the idea "Change import to allow updates, not just new adds." in PostRank.

curiousstranger started following the idea "Choosing to post to Ping.fm or just post to Twitter" in atebits.

curiousstranger marked one of iaian7's replies in atebits as useful. iaian7 replied to the idea "Choosing to post to Ping.fm or just post to Twitter".

curiousstranger replied on May 12, 2009 03:15 to the problem "Feeds are not coming through to Greader" in PostRank:

It's baaaack. Since Ilya announced that the 10-posts-in-a-topic-feed issue shoudl be resolved, I've been subscribing to my topics in Google Reader, and I"m getting errors. When I attempt to fetch the feeds manually, I get:

error
Unable to retrieve channel data

curiousstranger replied on May 04, 2009 16:47 to the question "Mark all as read in PR filtered items.." in PostRank:

Mark me down as another interested in this functionality. The prime reason I have for the need: if I'm only looking at the Great posts in a folder, and I mark all as read, recent posts in that same folder that haven't had a chance to receive "engagement" and boost their postrank will never be seen by me. If I could mark just those displayed by the filter as read, recent posts will have a chance at getting enough postrank to get my attention.

curiousstranger replied on May 01, 2009 03:33 to the question "Maximum entries in a topic rss feed" in PostRank:

From your twitter message earlier: "we now support SUP (http://ow.ly/4ypI) for user activity feeds! developers, look at the headers to get started! #feature"

Is this for topic feeds, and if so, could Google be persuaded to use it?

A comment on the problem "Feeds are not coming through to Greader" in PostRank:

This is a symptom of the problem I describe over here: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/aiders...

Because the personal topic feeds are likely to only be subscribed by a single individual, they aren't scheduled to update very often in googles backend, even less often the less you check the feed. Because the feeds generated by Postrank only contain 10 items, you'll lose everything but the last 10 items in the period between google's updates. Either Postrank needs to include more items in its feeds, or they need to work with Google to get google to check more often.

Feel free to go vote on my other question and hopefully this will get some attention. – curiousstranger, on May 01, 2009 03:20

curiousstranger replied on April 29, 2009 22:35 to the question "Maximum entries in a topic rss feed" in PostRank:

An update on this. This is definitely putting a serious crimp in the usefulness of topic feeds. Any fast-moving topic with more than a few sources will result in the vast majority of posts never showing up. Let's say Google Reader only updates my topic every 4 hours (I'm not sure if this is the case - if anything it might be worse, since personal postrank topic feeds would only have one subscriber and thus be de-prioritized for updates). If your topic has more than 10 posts in it a 4 hour window, you will never see them. For smaller, slower topics, that might be fine, but for high-volume topics with a large number of sources, it doesn't work well at all.

A comment on the question "Uploads stalling" in PostRank:

This just occurred again (http://getsatisfaction.com/aiderss/to...). I'm fairly certain its related to posting a question without being signed in. After signing into the interstitial login box, the wrong topic is used. – curiousstranger, on April 29, 2009 22:28

curiousstranger replied on April 29, 2009 19:46 to the question "Adding new global topics" in PostRank:

Ahh, I didn't notice that! Neat. Thanks!

curiousstranger replied on April 29, 2009 19:30 to the question "Adding new global topics" in PostRank:

To make sure I'm understanding you, "Manage" lets you add feeds to existing global topics, not create new global topics, yes? I think a Swine Flu topic might be timely. Alternately, a way for someone to discover a user's topic other than navigating to that user's page might be useful. I have a Swine Flu topic, but if folks search for it in the search box, it doesn't come up.