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Farhad replied on December 11, 2009 15:44 to the praise "Dotspot is my dream bookmark and annotation tool" in DotSpots:

Thank you! That made our week!!

But this is just the start! We'll keep improving DotSpots to even better serve you... So, please keep the suggestions and feedback coming!

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad set one of Farhad's replies as an official response to "intrusive dots" in DotSpots

Farhad replied on September 25, 2009 04:56 to the question "intrusive dots" in DotSpots:

user display controls are coming out very soon that will allow you to set your dispaly rules better control how many and what type of dots will show.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 16:01 to the problem "Where did all the dots go?" in DotSpots:

I see the dots on that page... that said, there is currently an intermittent bug that sometimes causes dots not to appear on the page (in that case your browser bar icon should show "..." instead of "ds"). In that case, you should Reload or Refresh the page and that seems to work.

Obviously, this is far from ideal, but we're trying to track down this pesky intermittent bug.

Thanks for you patience and please keep the feedback coming.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 15:57 to the problem "Beta signup issue" in DotSpots:

due to spike in traffic related to the TechCrunch article yesterday, we tried to increase capacity in the middle of the night (bad idea), and took out our db for a few hours.

Truly sorry about that... please try again today... all should be fine.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 15:57 to the problem "login error" in DotSpots:

due to spike in traffic related to the TechCrunch article yesterday, we tried to increase capacity in the middle of the night (bad idea), and took out our db for a few hours.

Truly sorry about that... please try again today... all should be fine.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 15:56 to the problem "500 when reading comments or trying to login" in DotSpots:

due to spike in traffic related to the TechCrunch article yesterday, we tried to increase capacity in the middle of the night (bad idea), and took out our db for a few hours.

Truly sorry about that... please try again today... all should be fine.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 15:56 to the problem "500 when reading comments or trying to login" in DotSpots:

due to spike in traffic related to the TechCrunch article yesterday, we tried to increase capacity in the middle of the night (bad idea), and took out our db for a few hours.

Truly sorry about that... please try again today... all should be fine.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 15:55 to the problem "error talking to the server (500)" in DotSpots:

due to spike in demand, we tried to increase capacity in the middle of the night (bad idea), and took out our db for a few hours.

Truly sorry about that... please try again today... all should be fine.

Best,

Farhad.

Farhad replied on September 11, 2009 05:43 to the idea "add-on required?" in DotSpots:

The issue with a bookmarklet is that you have to "click to activate" in order to view dots on a page you are browsing. Of course, for creating a dot that is not so much of a problem, and so we are probably going to release a bookmarklet before too long here.

Thanks for you feedback.

Farhad replied on May 02, 2009 01:47 to the problem "Selecting multiple paragraphs for a dot ignores all but first paragraph" in DotSpots:

We are rethinking the whole paragraph selection issue to make it more general. Will keep you posted.

Farhad replied on April 29, 2009 01:58 to the idea "Auto-post to Twitter/FriendFeed option" in DotSpots:

nailed it on the head... this is definitely in the near-term queue.

Farhad replied on April 29, 2009 01:06 to the praise "Nice!" in DotSpots:

thanks!

Farhad replied on April 29, 2009 00:53 to the idea "Add the ability to update a contribution" in DotSpots:

This is in the queue.

Farhad replied on April 29, 2009 00:52 to the idea "Reputation" in DotSpots:

You bring up one of the key developmental questions for DotSpots: How can we quickly, efficiently and scalably determine the quality of contributions in the system?

If we do this well, our system will thrive. If we fail at this... umm, well... let's just say it won't.

Anyway: We've started with a simple system, just to get something out the door and start getting content... we'll then upgrade it as needed, depending on usage.

Your ideas are good ones... keep in mind that soon we'll have a "follow" based system too and that will go a long way to determining who's trusted by the community as a whole (and by you as an individual user).