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Matt Langston replied on September 20, 2009 22:57 to the problem "Images are not displayed." in Maverick Revolution:

When did you upload the image? We had a problem with our server, and had to restore images from a backup... Sadly, it seems some images weren't included in the backup, and can't be restored. I've fixed the problem, and it shouldn't happen again.

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Matt Langston reported a problem in twitterfeed on September 02, 2009 01:03:

urlShort (u.mavrev.com) taken offline by hosting company, HostingZoom.
All URL creations and redirections are unavailable. Due to an issue beyond my control, HostingZoom has cut off all access to urlShort, without any prior notice or consultation with Maverick Revolution. We are working to resolve this as soon as possible, but have no estimate for completion as we are waiting on them to allow us to access our own files. I apologize for this issue (which quite frankly is why I support the movement for content publishers to use their own short URL services, rather than rely on others), and encourage you to switch your URL shortener of choice from urlShort to another (such as bit.ly) for the time being (cli.gs has had issues with repeating links).

Once again, my apologies for this unexpected, and unacceptable unavailability. I'll post here again when we're back up. If you have something to say about it, I ask that you please contact HostingZoom with your complaints. Thanks.
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Matt Langston replied on August 23, 2009 23:58 to the idea "tester" in Maverick Revolution:

No, let's not start spamming .

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A comment on the update "bit.ly struggling a little at the moment" in twitterfeed:

It doesn't seem like a good idea to rely on a service/company who changes their position from closing down, to reopening, to going "open source" in the span of four days. Not to mention that they refuse to join 301works, which is attempting to try and solve some of the problems short URLs offer. – Matt Langston, on August 23, 2009 16:17
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Matt Langston replied on August 23, 2009 06:03 to the problem "Page not found-problem" in Maverick Revolution:

There's currently a known issue with the default .htaccess regarding sub-directories. The only solution I can offer (for now) is to install to a subdomain (u.example.com), or the root.

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Matt Langston replied on August 23, 2009 06:01 to the problem "Your URLs dont work in any browser" in Maverick Revolution:

Any update from you?

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Matt Langston shared an idea in twitterfeed on August 23, 2009 00:51:

Custom short URL services for publishers (open source)
Has twitterfeed considered adding support for custom domain short URL services? Projects like urlShort, kissabe, and phurl allow publishers to run their own short URL services (helping to improve transparency and reputation in links), and services like awe.sm offer paid/hosted solutions that do this as well. awe.sm is already supported, so I thought the next step to offering content publishers with a great Twitter solution would be adding support for these open source projects.

With urlShort as an example, the API has a standard form (http://example.com/api.php?url=http:/...), and could be implemented by asking the user to enter their domain (example.com), and Twitterfeed could do the rest. Kissabe also offers a built in API, so the same solution could also be used.

Is there anyone else who'd like to see this added to twitterfeed?
Matt Langston replied on August 22, 2009 21:18 to the idea "Needs an API" in Maverick Revolution:

I'm not the admin of fnla.me (it runs urlShort, which mavrev.com maintains), but there is an API, the owner has just removed the link for whatever reason. You may want to check with him before you add support, but it is accessible at http://fnla.me/api.php?url=http://exa... for creation, and http://fnla.me/api.php?short=http://f... for lookup. You can contact him on his site at http://visualrinse.com to make sure he's okay with it (although I'd guess he will be).

It's great to hear that you're looking to support new short URL services.

Note to self: Remove feedback widget from urlShort project code in next version... :P

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A comment on the question "Add stats and count click throughs." in Maverick Revolution:

Updated. – Matt Langston, on August 20, 2009 17:05
Matt Langston replied on August 20, 2009 16:21 to the problem "Page not found-problem" in Maverick Revolution:

I'm assuming that you're the site owner, if not please know that mavrev.com doesn't offer support for third party urlShort sites.

I would guess that you're missing a .htaccess file, which controls redirects, or your install_path is incorrect. Please check both of those, and get back to me.

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Matt Langston replied on August 15, 2009 17:23 to the question "Is This Spam?" in twitterfeed:

urlShort (u.mavrev.com) is not spam, nor are we falsely providing short URLs. The feed your content is coming from into Twitterfeed must be containing the "spam", and Twitterfeed is doing its job by tweeting it with a short URL, in this case urlShort if bit.ly fails.

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A comment on the question "Add stats and count click throughs." in Maverick Revolution:

Nice! I've added them both to our links page – Matt Langston, on August 15, 2009 17:20
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Matt Langston replied on August 15, 2009 17:06 to the problem "Installation problems" in Maverick Revolution:

This has been fixed in the 1.1.2 release, available at https://sourceforge.net/project/downl...

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Matt Langston replied on August 15, 2009 17:04 to the problem "404 errors" in Maverick Revolution:

If there is no .htaccess in your copy of urlShort (if you're on Linux or OS X be sure viewing hidden files is turned on), then you can create an .htaccess file with the details below.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
ErrorDocument 500 /index.php
ErrorDocument 200 /index.php

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