Marjolein Katsma's dashboard

OK, in a row, to hopefully take away all confusion:

1. StatusNet, Inc. is a company - see http://status.net/2009/10/27/statusne...


2. they create the microblogging software called StatusNet


3. they provide a service called identi.ca running the StatusNet software - see http://status.net/wiki/Main_Page


4. they provide a service called status.net providing hosting for StatusNet instances (see PR above)


5. StatusNet software (formerly called Laconica) implements the OMB protocol - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMicr... - which makes all StatusNet instances federated: members of one site can siubscribe to members of another; some other services/software also implement OMB, so members of such a site can subscribe to members of identi.ca, for instance (and vice versa)


6. the API of the StatusNet software is compatible with the Twitter API: this means that any tool that implements the Twitter API can easily be adapted to implement the StatusNet API as well, and thus support a host of other sites, including identi.ca; this is what is referred to with the request from the OP: just replace "identi.ca/laconica support" with "identi.ca/StatusNet support" (because of the name change of the software)

As to the long list of to-do's: there is such a thing as a quick win: with very little effort you can support a host of other sites: see http://status.net/wiki/ListOfServers

I hope this helps...

I might be interested once it supports laconica-based sites (such as identi.ca) - please let me know when you support that.


You know, of course, that laconica software has a Twitter-compatible API? Snc eyou already support Twitter, supporting Laconica sites is a doddle.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Let me know when you support Laconica-based sites!.

Kilian, that's brilliant!

Not only can I now see all results, but they are more relevant, because the hits I saw in the original first page with the search string only a substring of the username are now no longer there.

This is really useful now!

Kilian,

That's great news - you're making me happy again!

Wouter,

It just happened again - and this time no long period of idleness, so that idea was probably just a red herring... Wakoopa tracker had been running just fine for a long time until this afternoon I discovered a discrepancy again between what the tray app told me and what I saw on the site:

This was what my tray app said:

At the same time I saw this on the website:

When I quit the tracker and restarted it, it immediately told me this:

The actual events reported here should give you a clue about timing.

What about this debug version you suggested? Let me know if you want me to test with that!

Yes, the tracker on the Windows machine was running all the time. (And before and while using the Mac I was also posting dents to identi.ca on the Windows machine, using Psi.) I had another "episode" yesterday (without any precise time data), where after I got really suspicious it had stopped again I unloaded and restarted the tracker - and suddenly had 15 or so alerts: no way someone can write 5+ reviews during the time it takes me to unload and restart the tracker!

I have a sneaky suspicion now it's something to do with a period of "inactivity" on the machine - generally it's running continuously until I must reboot: often for 10 days on end, on average about 4 days. Maybe the tracker thinks I've "gone away" or something? (I do sleep sometimes, even when my software is working. ;))

I'm fine with running a debug version of the tracker - especially now someone else is reporting this as well. You have my email addy: just let me know what to do! – Marjolein Katsma, on November 15, 2008 21:10

Related? Now it seems Wakoopa has also "half forgotten" that I use a tracker at all - see screenshot.

Or... it is to do with the fact that just before going to my Dashboard I had visited the profile of a new user who doesn't have a tracker yet (because he uses Linux!).

Whichever - Wakoopa is a bit confused:

Update: tracker on PC stopped and restarted - now it reports 12 new alerts! – Marjolein Katsma, on November 12, 2008 18:43

Well, it happened again - and thanks it identi.ca (!) I have more accurate events & times, too:

- this morning 12-Nov-08 10:02:39 UTC I installed the wakoopa tracker on my MacBook
- it "detected itself" almost immediately, I saw it as "newcomer" on the website
- I used various software on the MacBook, and ended up writing an iMovie review - dented at 12-Nov-08 10:52:04 UTC
- I then closed my MacBook and continued working on my PC
- on the PC I installed (12-Nov-08 11:16:22 UTC) and started using nLite for the first time, and continued using that throughout most of the afternoon

BUT: Wakoopa tracker on the PC did NOT notice my use of nLite at all (though possibly it stopped tracking before that?); last alert there is "Erik van Luxzenburg wrote a review on IntenseDebate" ... but by now the website tells me there are 10 *new* alerts.

It may have nothing to do with starting to use the Mac tracker (my PC was on all the time), of course...

You can see my dents about what I was doing today at http://identi.ca/marjoleink (actually, that in itself should be enough since I'm using it now to write this. :))

Hope this is detailed enough for you!

OK, I'll keep an eye on it! – Marjolein Katsma, on November 05, 2008 21:42

Wouter: Today; I stopped and restarted a little while before reporting here. I'll try to keep an eye on it for a while - pretty sure it's happened before. – Marjolein Katsma, on November 05, 2008 17:38

There are too few choices to begin with. License forms like careware, donationware and postcardware cannot be entered. And "demo" is a bad choice to include fully-functional trial versions - normally "demo" means the exact opposite: something you can "look at" but not actually use - worse even than crippleware which at least lets you do "something" while you haven't paid yet.

Such distinctions matter to people, especially Open Source and Shareware advocates. "Demo" is a piece of software that does not work (not a license type). Shareware is a distribution form. Open Source is a type of license that gives the user the right to the source code and the right to change it. Commercial means that something costs money - but that something can very well be shareware or be or contain Open Source. Bundled is again a distribution format (how you can acquire it) but doesn't say anything about license at all.

The list is a mishmash of different things, and the explanation doesn't really help to make a choice.

But the biggest problem is that you have to choose one option when often several are available, and/or several are applicable at the same time. The need is not to sum up all different limitations or pricing schemes, but to be able to indicate that there is a choice between free and a paid-for license. Or that a commercial license is Open Source (think of MySQL for instance which is Open Source and has commercial licenses). And so on.

Distribution (how you can get your hands on it), license (what you are allowed to do with it) and pricing (what it may cost and how you can pay) are three different and independent things.

The current "License type" item mixes them all up. This is a problem. A big one. The choices one is forced to make often lead to a false result, with no way to indicate the real situation.

The best solution would be to split this item into three separate items (or maybe two: is distribution form really important?), and allow multi-select on each of them as well (software and services may have different license types, and different pricing forms - including freeware - as well).