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Rael Dornfest replied on June 10, 2008 00:51 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Howdy, folks.

Sandy caught up a little while ago and you should have received your missing digests (and a couple of reminders that were scheduled for the past 30 minutes or so).

Again, I'm sorry for the lack of response (both in terms of reminders and posting here on GetSatisfaction)!

—Rael

A comment on the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Heh. Given that I'd not had a chance to catch up on my Twitter reading today, it was handy to have growl on my Mac flood my screen with a day's worth of older messages (from Sandy and elsewhere) ;-). – Rael Dornfest, on June 10, 2008 00:49

A comment on the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Same problem here. Just got a reminder about an 11 am appointment at 6:05 pm. NOT GOOD! This makes Sandy pretty incompetent. – Sherman, on June 10, 2008 00:20

A comment on the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Same problem here. Just got a reminder about an 11 am appointment at 6:05 pm. NOT GOOD! This makes Sandy pretty incompetent. – Sherman, on June 10, 2008 00:20

Jim J replied on June 09, 2008 22:49 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Thanks for getting on that. Lots of dm's flooding in as we speak. I thought twitter might have been the ghost in the machine.

Rael Dornfest replied on June 09, 2008 22:34 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Hi again, folks.

Sandy was indeed stuck again — most likely triggered by difficulty sending Twitter reminders. Now Twitter reminders obviously shouldn't be interfering with those that go out by email or SMS, but it seems they have indeed been doing so.

We're taking a look at the cause of the blockage and will work to further disconnect Sandy's Twitter reminders from all the others.

In the meantime, Sandy's doing some catch-up and should be completely up to date in a few minutes.

I apologize profusely for the missed reminders!

—Rael

A comment on the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Here's that Twitter thread for those interested: http://status.twitter.com/post/377330... – Rael Dornfest, on June 09, 2008 22:09

Rael Dornfest replied on June 09, 2008 22:08 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Hi folks.

I'm sorry I didn't see the new activity on this thread — it's hard to discern sometimes whether something's new or another person just started following an older GetSatisfaction topic. But that's neither here nor there...

I'm taking a gander to see what's causing some of you not to get email reminders or digests.

As for Twitter, as I just posted on another thread, they're doing some rate limiting while under heavy load, which means that Sandy's reading her direct messages and responding to them as quickly as she's allowed to by Twitter's API, but there will definitely be some delays on anything going through Twitter.

Back in a moment with another update.

Rael

Steve replied on June 09, 2008 21:14 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Same problem here.

disorganized replied on June 09, 2008 19:32 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

No reminders since Friday, even via email--and not even a response from Sandy to direct messages via Twitter (but no problem with other direct messages to others with Twitter)

Andy replied on June 09, 2008 18:18 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

I have had the same problems. No digest or reminders today...

Jim J replied on June 09, 2008 17:13 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

can't get direct messages through from twitter to sandy, then when i send todos etc. through email I don't get a daily digest or the reminders I expected.

No response from iwantsandy as requests pile up. What's going on? Would someone please at least say somehing?

jenna replied on June 09, 2008 15:38 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

I haven't received any reminds in three days. I also didn't receive a daily digest today.

johnb replied on June 09, 2008 15:37 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

So far today I haven't received my Daily Digest or any of my morning reminders. This service was a good idea while it worked but it has become unreliable and I don't even know that anyone at I Want Sandy is working on a fix.

Is iwantsandy a company with employees and a business plan or a school project?

Paul replied on June 09, 2008 15:03 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

So far today I haven't received my Daily Digest or any of my morning reminders. There has been no customer service reply in 10 days. This service was a good idea while it worked but it has become entirely unreliable and I don't even know that anyone at I Want Sandy is working on a fix or even cares for that matter. I've heard the apologies however actions speak much louder than words. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Goodbye Sandy.

Dan replied on June 09, 2008 06:36 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Same problem here, it would seem. Sorry, Sandy, but this has to get fixed soon or else it's not worth keeping around.

Tony replied on June 09, 2008 03:29 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Having the same problem, not getting reminders all of Sunday (Central time). This has happened before. I cannot afford to rely on this for "mission-critical" reminders knowing this can happen at random days. Great idea but if something bullet-proof isn't transparently (e.g. blogged/disclosed) put in place, I'm deleting my account. By the way, about the blog, might either update it more often or just remove it.

jnazario replied on June 08, 2008 23:34 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

sandy's been sending reminders late, or not at all (esp when snoozed). no email, no SMS (my preferred reminder method).

sandy you may be getting fired very, very soon.

disorganized replied on June 06, 2008 15:33 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

In the past two days that I've been re-employing Sandy, I haven't been getting reminders--I think mostly a when I update things. Unfortunately, i deleted them, so i can't send them to you (since I had thought it was just a Twitter problem)--but later I realized I also wasn't getting email updates either, so I don't think it's entirely a Twitter problem.

I think I had also given up on Sandy a few months ago, but realized it would be really useful when I'm on the go--hope you can fix it!

Paul replied on June 05, 2008 21:19 to the problem "Reminders are not being sent!" in I want Sandy:

Six days now, two emails and two posts and once again customer service seems to have disappeared into the great abyss...