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Robclock replied on November 03, 2009 18:32 to the question "Posting from a Client Throws an Error Message (in the client)" in StatusNet Inc.:

Figured this out. It was a PHP memory problem. It was exceeding the 8MB limit. Upping it to 12MB seems to have solved the problem.

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Rob.

Robclock asked a question in StatusNet Inc. on November 02, 2009 18:24:

Posting from a Client Throws an Error Message (in the client)

Posting a notification from a client works, but returns error to the client. E.g., When I post from Twhirl, Twhirl returns a message that the posting failed, but the message is posted, and Twhirl picks it up on the next refresh. In Adium, it returns an "Unknown message error" message, but the post goes through.

Any idea what message is (or isn't) being sent back to the client to cause this?

Thanks.

Robclock replied on October 29, 2009 01:17 to the question "How to show subscriptions/subscribers in sidebar" in StatusNet Inc.:

Evan,

Interesting. I was using a slightly modified version of the 'default' theme and every page on the site was showing the export, popular notices, groups with most members, and featured users in the sidebar. I enabled the 'identica' theme and the profile pages started showing the personal info (subscriptions, subscribers, groups, and stats). I switched back to the modified 'default' theme to see what the difference was, and now it shows the personal info as well. Perhaps it was a caching issue.

This site is going to serve mainly as a notification service for our magazine writers and editors to keep up with where stories and issues are in the editing/publishing queue. It's going to have between 9 and 15 users. So showing all members would be a nice capability. (I understand this is not a typical scenario that you would have anticipated.)

On a related note, we are not going to be using groups on this site. Is there a way to globally shut off all reference to the groups feature? (Just a nicety, not a necessity.)

Thanks for your help.
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Rob.

Robclock asked a question in StatusNet Inc. on October 28, 2009 20:13:

How to show subscriptions/subscribers in sidebar

How, on StatusNet, do you display a user's subscriptions, and/or subscribers, and/or a list of all members of the site, a la identi.ca?

Robclock replied on October 28, 2009 20:08 to the problem "Logging In From Client Fails." in StatusNet Inc.:

I never got this to work with GoDaddy, but I solved the problem another way. I don't think any of this is the fault of the StatusNet software. I'm pretty sure it was a host-specific issue.

Robclock replied on October 26, 2009 20:06 to the problem "Logging In From Client Fails." in StatusNet Inc.:

Okay, I created the file "statusnet.log," set its permissions to "666," and added that line to my config.php file. I tried logging in--both through a client and on the site--with bad info and nothing was written to the log file. Am I doing something wrong?

Robclock replied on October 26, 2009 19:50 to the problem "Logging In From Client Fails." in StatusNet Inc.:

Oddly enough, it appears that GoDaddy doesn't allow me to see my server logs (which is one of many reasons I don't use them for much any more). Where do I find my StatusNet log?

Robclock replied on October 26, 2009 19:35 to the problem "Logging In From Client Fails." in StatusNet Inc.:

Zach,

Thank you for the quick reply.

Yes, fancy URLs work. I can get to my account page by going to http://mysite/mypath/myusername.

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Rob.

Robclock reported a problem in StatusNet Inc. on October 26, 2009 19:14:

Logging In From Client Fails.

I am testing statusnet on a couple of sites. I have two installations with virtually identical configurations: one on bluehost and one on GoDaddy. When I connect to the GoDaddy one from a client (e.g., Adium and qtwitter) the login doesn't work. It keeps asking me to re-enter my credentials. The bluehost site works fine with both clients.

Robclock replied on April 10, 2009 15:18 to the idea "Suggestion: support email monitoring" in The Cosmic Machine:

Email integration would make EventBox more useful (particularly if, as Dave suggests, it supports IMAP and POP). Even starting out with support for popular Webmail systems like GMail, YAHOO!, etc. would be a great step--like what Fuser has done, but without all the slow. buggy performance.

Good work, guys.

Robclock replied on April 10, 2009 13:38 to the idea "Edit a Smart Folder?" in The Cosmic Machine:

This is a must. Particularly on Twitter, as you follow more people you will want to add them to existing lists. I just started with EventBox yesterday, and so far this is the one thing that will keep me from adopting it right now. Other than this, really nice work, particularly on the interface.

Robclock replied on March 17, 2009 16:16 to the problem "Feedly telling me I "need" to have Feedly to view an XML file in Flock" in Feedly:

My humblest apologies to the Feedly team. (I should have known you would have more grace than that.) The somewhat presumptuous (and frankly unhelpful) error message was coming from Flock (Firefox) and not from Feedly.

Thank you for your quick and helpful response, and, as always, thank you for an excellent product (can't wait for iPhone version!).

Robclock reported a problem in Feedly on March 17, 2009 14:48:

Feedly telling me I "need" to have Feedly to view an XML file in Flock

Why is Flock (or Feedly within Flock) telling me I need have Feedly to access an XML file? I deactivated Feedly specifically in order to look at the source of the file, but even after deactivating and restarting, Feedly tells me that I "need" to have Feedly to access this type of file.

Regardless of the obvious bug in this approach, I find the message very disingenuous. No one "needs" to have Feedly to look at an XML file. Any browser can open an XML file. Feedly is just hi-jacking that function and holding me hostage.

I'm a *huge* fan of Feedly, but this error message--and in particular the wording of it--is a bit over the top (and genuinely misleading).

Robclock replied on March 16, 2009 13:30 to the idea "I think that a feedly app would be perfect for the iPhone." in Feedly:

I have only paid for one app for my iPhone (Tweetie--well worth it). I would pay $2.99 for a Feedly app that is nearly as full-featured as the Web version. I would be very disappointed if, for instance, the ability to share items through Twitter and Digg was left out, or it didn't have a built-in browser (it would be a pain to have to go to Safari each time you click a link, then re-open Feedly to get back to your feeds). That said, I am sure that a good Feedly app would quickly become the most used app on my phone.

Thanks.

Robclock replied on March 06, 2009 18:08 to the idea "I think that a feedly app would be perfect for the iPhone." in Feedly:

Glad to hear it's moving forward. This may be the next killer iPhone app, especially since Google doesn't appear to have any designs on a Reader App at this point.

Thanks for all the great work.

Robclock started following the idea "I think that a feedly app would be perfect for the iPhone." in Feedly.

Robclock replied on February 10, 2009 18:44 to the problem "lengthy Herd downtime, favorite commands gone, can't form keystroke habits" in Mozilla:

Having the herd down for several days at a stretch really limits the usefulness of Ubiquity. I know it's a beta (or alpha?) project, but it would be nice to at least have a brief explanation/update posted on the herd page (and here).

Ubiquity's a great product that people have begun to incorporate into their routines (that's a big FTW for you guys) and therefore it's more aggravating when we don't know what's going on.

Thanks.

Robclock started following the problem "lengthy Herd downtime, favorite commands gone, can't form keystroke habits" in Mozilla.

Robclock replied on February 04, 2009 18:54 to the question "Source could appear in the header or footer of the news you're actually reading?" in Feedly:

Nice, quick resolution. Can I add that it would be nice to have a date and time stamp somewhere in the same view.

Thanks.

Robclock replied on February 04, 2009 15:46 to the problem "lost built-in commands" in Mozilla:

I was becoming very dependent on Ubiquity, then all my commands disappeared. I am very interested in trying out Feedly's new Ubiquity integration, but my command list is empty and I have no idea how to recover it.

Thank you for any help you can provide.