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John Nunemaker replied on July 24, 2009 00:38 to the question "When will MYMM start following me on twitter? And why doesn't the link on the webpage work?" in Sidebar Creative:

The auto follow thing on twitter seems to stop working at times. What is your twitter username? And what link are you referring to that doesn't work? There are a lot of links, please be specific.

A comment on the question "What's the deal with the "Recently had an oil change" box?" in Sidebar Creative:

It had absolutely no functionality. We were going to add the functionality but never took the time. – John Nunemaker, on July 05, 2009 19:06

John Nunemaker replied on March 28, 2009 05:35 to the problem "Why is mymm on twitter not following me back?" in Sidebar Creative:

See this response for more information. Should be fixed for now.

John Nunemaker replied on March 28, 2009 05:34 to the problem "Can't Twiiter MYMM...help" in Sidebar Creative:

I whipped together a script tonight that unfollowed all who were not following mymm that mymm was following which freed up some space in the follower limits. I then made the script follow all people who were following mymm that mymm was not following.

Easiest way to tell if this worked is to go to:
http://doesfollow.com/mymm/[your twitter username]

For example, for me I would go to:
http://doesfollow.com/mymm/jnunemaker

If that says yes, then we followed you correctly and you should be able to DM us fillups. If your twitter account is private, be sure to approve the request as well. If it says nope, then you were somehow missed by the automated script.

John Nunemaker replied on March 28, 2009 03:26 to the problem "I get a ton of DMs back from mymm." in Sidebar Creative:

Yeah, that sucks. When we process DM's, we fetch the DM, create the fuel record and then delete the DM. If DM deletion fails for some reason, which it randomly does, you get repeat DM's. Sorry for the pain. We need to figure out a way to get around this. I have some ideas.

John Nunemaker replied on March 28, 2009 03:25 to the problem "Can't Twiiter MYMM...help" in Sidebar Creative:

Scott,
It doesn't matter if you add mymm to your twitter account. mymm also has to add you. Right now Twitter has set some follower limits on us. They had removed them but apparently they are back. We have put in support requests but there is nothing we can do until Twitter changes it.

Trust me, I want it too. I can't even follow myself from the mymm account and I work on mymilemarker.

John Nunemaker replied on March 23, 2009 05:32 to the question "Is there a way to do a CSV export of the data?" in Sidebar Creative:

First off, there is an iPhone app, it is just not native. If you visit mymilemarker.com/m on your iPhone, you get a sexy version of mobile M3. I use that from my iPhone and it gets the job done.

Second, we actually have an xml API for M3, but we just haven't announced it. It could change down the road, but I'd rather give you something that is functional now than make you wait for something perfect down the road.

I wrote up a really simple Ruby wrapper http://gist.github.com/83431 that you can checkout which shows you how to:

* List all your vehicles
* Get info for an individual vehicle
* Get all histories for a vehicle
* Get fuel_economy and mileage reports (these are the weakest as they are just tailored to power the graphs you see in M3 right now)

I'm going to assume that if you care this much about export you are probably a programmer of some sort and that you should be able to figure out what I'm doing and convert it to your programming language of choice. If I'm making too big of an assumption, let me know.

At some point down the road, we'll evaluate what, if any, changes need to be done to the API and it could mutate. We'll be sure to say something beforehand, but just know that you've been warned.

So, in conclusion, we've had an API from the beginning, but didn't announce it because we wanted to document and "officially" support it. Since we haven't had time to do either of those, I've blown the whistle on what we have, but it could change at any point (though we'll most likely warn first).

John Nunemaker replied on March 23, 2009 04:02 to the problem "Why is mymm on twitter not following me back?" in Sidebar Creative:

You don't need anything special. We have hit a limit with twitter and are trying to get it increased. Heck, I can't even get followed and I work on the app. :) Hopefully Twitter responds soon and removes the limit or at least increases it.

John Nunemaker replied on March 23, 2009 04:01 to the question "Send 'follow mymm' to request? How is this done?" in Sidebar Creative:

It is done from twitter. You can also login to twitter and browse to twitter.com/mymm and click the follow button.

John Nunemaker replied on March 23, 2009 04:00 to the question "Calculation problems?" in Sidebar Creative:

Your latest fillup will always be N/A. It is impossible to know the miles per gallon of your current tank as you haven't used it yet. We can't calculate it until you fillup again and we know how many miles you went and gallons you put in. Hope that helps clear this up.

John Nunemaker replied on March 23, 2009 03:55 to the problem "mpg & projected costs don't compute" in Sidebar Creative:

Ok, this should be fixed. We were not forcing a reprocess of your history when using Twitter direct messages. Let me know if the problem persists but you should be good.

John Nunemaker replied on January 17, 2009 03:59 to the idea "Sifter API" in Next Update:

Get an API and I'll write all the glue for github and such, as I would love to have integration. :)

On top of an API, I would love to see web hooks along the lines of GitHub's services. You wouldn't need anything that complex, but doing a simple post to user provided url's would make it really easy we developers to build various notifications in (campfire, twitter, etc.).

John Nunemaker started following the idea "Sifter API" in Next Update.

John Nunemaker replied on January 17, 2009 03:54 to the idea "Milestones/Releases" in Next Update:

I don't really need "milestones" per say as dates and such don't matter but some way to group tickets together, other than categories would be nice. For now I'll probably just hack categories to work and happily wait for email and an API. :)

John Nunemaker started following the idea "Public Projects in Sifter" in Next Update.

John Nunemaker replied on January 09, 2009 23:29 to the question "What's the deal with the "Recently had an oil change" box?" in Sidebar Creative:

Sorry for the confusion! There is actually no deal with it. It was there as originally there were plans to send a friendly reminder email about 3k miles after you checked it. We never actually implemented it and it has been a source of confusion ever since. Today, I took it off until we actually figure out the details of how the implementation should be. Hope that clears it up.

John Nunemaker replied on December 16, 2008 04:09 to the question "Is there a way to do a CSV export of the data?" in Sidebar Creative:

We are in no way attempting to lock you into our app. Data export is not a priority right now but that does not mean it is not on the todo list. How about instead of voicing complaints, we change this thread into ideas for what you would want in an export feature. XML? CSV? Do other services offer import/export? That would give us better definition of the problem which would help us prioritize.

John Nunemaker replied on December 14, 2008 21:13 to the question "What is the purpose of the "Last fillup wasn't..." checkbox?" in Sidebar Creative:

Correct. At this time M3 only works with consecutive fillups. We have facilities to recalculate mileage manually but we need to automate the process.

John Nunemaker replied on December 14, 2008 20:36 to the question "What is the purpose of the "Last fillup wasn't..." checkbox?" in Sidebar Creative:

In order to properly calculate gas mileage, we have to know whether you logged consecutive fillups. The Last fillup wasn't is more like the last fillup recorded wasn't. If you skipped recording a fillup then we don't want to assume that you are all of a sudden going twice as many miles on a tank of gas. Does that make sense?

John Nunemaker replied on December 06, 2008 18:08 to the idea "New Feature: Maintenance records" in Sidebar Creative:

We've thought about adding maintenance but aren't sure if we want to branch out. The iphone images at least give us a good idea of what it should be. Thanks.