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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 25, 2009 12:49 to the question "How do I pay for an upgrade to somebody elses Expono account?" in Expono:

It's currently no simple way to sponsor someone with an upgrade to their account.

We working on new payment options that will be available in January, where you can purchase "GIFT" codes which another user can use to upgrade their account.

The only way to do this today is to login as them and upgrade their account.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 20, 2009 21:43 to the problem "problem with the upload" in Expono:

This is most likely related to having a poor connection.

Did you have any other uploads in progress? Are you using 3G?

It's very important for us that we don't have any problems with the uploader so keep posting if you keep having issues.

Thanks for reporting this.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 20, 2009 21:18 to the question "Who links to my picture(s)?" in Expono:

Very good question.

We should definitely store more information, like referral links, linking into a photo etc. Most of this information is accessible in logs today, and we store enough information to make sure "Views" are unique and not being faked.

But, you are right. It should be possible to see who "links" to a photo. Traffic stats. We have ticket for this, I've attached a link to this post and bumped the ticket to have this implemented sooner.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 16, 2009 10:43 to the idea "Add a "report spam" button? Filter reported spammers?" in Expono:

I did send him a notice. Blocked him this morning because he continued to upload spam. 2 minutes later a new account is created and he continues to spam.

We need to develop some better tools to fight this for sure. I got a few ideas, but cannot reveal them here in the open ;-)

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 15, 2009 21:50 to the question "Re-upload, update or replace pictures?" in Expono:

That function actually exists and it's used by the API and by some other third-party stuff, though we haven't enabled the function for the end-user yet.

However, there is no reason for us to not enable it other than we have to think about how it can be abused, especially now when we see spammers finding an interest in Expono.

I've written a ticket to enable it. My guess is that it will be placed a "Replace Photo" link under the "More Options" menu on the photo page.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 14, 2009 16:52 to the idea "Add a "report spam" button? Filter reported spammers?" in Expono:

We don't have a report spam button yet. The only way to report "inappropriate content" (be it spam, nudity, or whatnot) is by clicking on the link "Flag as inappropriate" on the photo page.

Photos flagged as inappropriate will popup in a back office tool where we can change status (visible) and safety_level (safe/moderate/restricted). We can also "block" users if necessary.

But, you are right, it's only a matter of time until we need to implement a "report spam user" or "block user" button for our users.

Oh, and I've seen much worse spammers on Expono :-)

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 08, 2009 16:40 to the question "not to show the activity of contacts" in Expono:

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I have confirmed that this is indeed a bug and we'll have a fix for it soon.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 07, 2009 22:48 to the idea "Shortcut to backup feature" in Expono:

Go to this page for the latest info and download links regarding the Expono Downloader app.

http://support.expono.com/expono/topi...

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 07, 2009 19:22 to the problem "Jpeg compression sometimes too heavy" in Expono:

I've seen this too and the results can be very different depending on the original file. When you do find poor compressions, please, post the links here (as long as they are public). It's always nice to have a few files to test with.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 07, 2009 19:16 to the problem "Unable to add e-mail address by pressing Enter" in Expono:

This is "legacy" code :-) Thanks for reporting this issue. It has been fixed and will be pushed to the live servers tomorrow.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 07, 2009 19:14 to the problem "Asked to log in at the URL album page when I am" in Expono:

Thanks for reporting this issue. This has been fixed and will be pushed to the live site tomorrow.

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Magnus Jonsson replied on December 07, 2009 18:33 to the idea "Possibility to embed "My Places" on other sites" in Expono:

It's on our long lists of stuff we want to do. We haven't looked into it that much, but I hope we can get to it soon enough. In the meanwhile you can try to embed a google map which points to your Expono KML URL.

Read more about using Expono's KML support with Google Maps and Google Earth here.

Or even better, try to find or create a Google Gadget that uses Google Maps and fetches KML info from any KML url and "boom" you got a widget anyone can use for any KML file :-) Maybe that's what we should do? Hmm...

http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/

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A comment on the idea "Shortcut to backup feature" in Expono:

Unfortunately it won't be usable anywhere else as 90% of the code is custom written for Expono, everything from auth, requests to replies (no standards here) and it requires service side changes to work. – Magnus Jonsson, on December 07, 2009 17:48
A comment on the update "Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing" in Expono:

Duly noted :-) – Magnus Jonsson, on December 07, 2009 17:48
A comment on the update "Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing" in Expono:

I got a fix for it now :) Will do some testing and wait to see if some more issues pops up – Magnus Jonsson, on December 05, 2009 15:07
A comment on the update "Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing" in Expono:

Thanks for letting us know :) We simply have to create a function to remove illegal chars if found. It all depends on the OS and filesystem. Example: Brackets under OSX is perfectly valid. – Magnus Jonsson, on December 05, 2009 14:36
A comment on the update "Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing" in Expono:

The problem is that it can't create the file. There are two reasons for that. 1) Invalid characters. 2) Write access denied. In you case I believe it has to do with write access. Try changing download path. – Magnus Jonsson, on December 05, 2009 14:00
A comment on the update "Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing" in Expono:

Maybe or folder rights. Which OS do you run? – Magnus Jonsson, on December 05, 2009 13:56
Magnus Jonsson posted an update in Expono on December 04, 2009 21:56:
Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing
The Expono Downloader for Windows, Mac and Linux is ready to be tested!

This is a very simple application that let's you download all your photos with one click, or select photos from a specific album to download. Auto-organize your photos in folders based on the album structure on expono. Cancels download without corrupting downloads. Choose to save the files in the Original Filename or the Expono Filename (global unique).

The purpose of this app is to make it easy to restore lost photos, or just retrieve all your originals from Expono. Future releases might include more advanced features such as, the ability to download meta data (comments, tags etc) related to a photo. Or, even download photos from friends accounts. But for now, it's a "insurance" app for our users to easily restore the content they upload. Using Expono as an online backup now makes more sense with this application available.

System Requirements:

Windows

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Mac OS X

Power PC / Intel Macs

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Linux

x86-based Linux dists with GTK+ 2.8 (or higher)

glibc-2.4

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)

libstdc++.so.6

Internally we have tested the Downloader on Leopard/Snow Leopard, Ubuntu 9.10, and Windows 7.

Known Issues

Currently crashes on Linux if you try to download files to a folder you don't have write access to

How can I help?
First and foremost, find bugs. We won't add more features in v1.0. Feature request are however welcome for v2.0. Ok, got it. What can fail?

- Weird characters in albums/photos behave differently on different operating systems.
- Unexpected data response from the servers which caused by weirdness in your accounts.

Who can run this app?
Currently, everyone with a PLUS account and BETA flagged user. Currently we have BETA flagged all PLUS users (a little pen and green bug is displayed on your profile photo)

Download Links
Expono Downloader for Windows v0.9.4-beta

Expono Downloader for Linux v0.9.4-beta

Expono Downloader for Mac OS X v0.9.4-beta

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