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Will Spaetzel started following the question "User Stats" in Spymaster.
Will Spaetzel shared an idea in Spymaster on June 03, 2009 13:21:

Display current energy in page title
It would be useful if your current energy could be displayed in the Title bar. This would let you leave the Spymaster window open and be able to see by looking at the title if you have enough energy for an assassination or task without having to click on the window.
Will Spaetzel asked a question in PostRank on April 21, 2009 18:25:

501 Method Not Implemented on Postrank Result
Enter http://feeds2.feedburner.com/garrettm... on Postrank.com
Takes you here: http://www.postrank.com/feed/e7b51e89...
Click on any post
Takes you here:http://api.postrank.com/.maniacalrage.net/post/98138122

With the message:
501 Method Not Implemented
William Spaetzel replied on November 12, 2008 18:45 to the question "v1 feed method is broken" in PostRank:

Great, thank you.

I have started updating my library to use the v2 api, so this doesn't affect me any more.

In the future, can you please try that new releases don't break the older api's? You did say that the reason for the versioning is so that old software will continue to work when you update the api.

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William Spaetzel replied on November 08, 2008 15:12 to the question "v1 feed method is broken" in PostRank:

I figured that upgrading would also fix the problem and will be looking into upgrading as well.

I'll be upgrading PostRankSharp at some point to the new version. Right now, I'm trying to finish up my new site :-)

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William Spaetzel asked a question in PostRank on November 08, 2008 15:01:

v1 feed method is broken
Visit this url: http://api.postrank.com/v1/feed?appke...

I'm getting http code 500 with this output:

private method `gsub!' called for nil:NilClass
feed.rb:110:in `response'
feed.rb:104:in `each_hash'
feed.rb:104:in `response'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/server.rb:162:in `process_http_request'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:911:in `call'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:911:in `defer'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:909:in `loop'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:909:in `defer'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:907:in `initialize'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:907:in `new'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:907:in `defer'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:906:in `times'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:906:in `defer'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/server.rb:195:in `process_http_request'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:224:in `receive_data'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:224:in `run_machine'
/svn/common/eventmachine/core-0.12.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:224:in `run'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:111:in `start'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:213:in `daemonize'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:204:in `fork'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:204:in `daemonize'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:62:in `initialize'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:61:in `upto'
./lib/../lib/apiserver/runner.rb:61:in `initialize'
feed.rb:152:in `new'
feed.rb:152

I'm pretty sure this started when you launched the latest version
William Spaetzel started following the idea "How about making this community multilingual?" in Get Satisfaction.
William Spaetzel asked a question in PostRank on July 11, 2008 01:52:

Repeated items in Feed PostRank
IF I call this URL:
http://api.postrank.com/v1/entry_stat...

And POST these values:

&url[]=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Deysca/~3/329747930/&url[]=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spaetzel/~3/326933691/&feedId=816&feedId=102049

I get back 4 items, but I only gave 2 URLs

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss>
<channel>
<title>Entry Stats</title>

<item>
<link />http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Deysca...
<aiderss:postrank>1.0</aiderss:postrank>
<aiderss:postrank_color>#ffe08e</aiderss:postrank_color>
</item>
<item>
<link />http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Deysca...
<aiderss:postrank>10.0</aiderss:postrank>
<aiderss:postrank_color>#ff7128</aiderss:postrank_color>
</item>
<item>
<link />http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Deysca...
<aiderss:postrank>1.0</aiderss:postrank>
<aiderss:postrank_color>#ffe08e</aiderss:postrank_color>
</item>
<item>
<link />http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/spaetz...
<aiderss:postrank>6.7</aiderss:postrank>
<aiderss:postrank_color>#ff994d</aiderss:postrank_color>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
William Spaetzel set one of Will Spaetzel's replies as an official response to "Site isn't working properly" in CastRoller
William Spaetzel replied on July 07, 2008 20:19 to the problem "Site isn't working properly" in CastRoller:

Thanks for pointing the problem out. I experimented with a new webhost over the weekend, which caused several things to go wrong.

The problem should be solved now.

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William Spaetzel replied on May 21, 2008 20:11 to the discussion "First Impressions" in CastRoller:

I'll play with either re-adding the "Episodes" link to the sidebar, or making the link more obvious in /home.

I don't want to add any more columns to the layout, I'll find another way of making it more obvious how to get to the episodes.

The "Show your channels in the sidebar" setting causes the channels you create to appear the same as your contacts, links to each of your channels. Not just the "Your channels" link.

I was playing around with the sorting of lists of episodes, it appears that I didn't sync the two up. I'll fix that.

I can add the ability to get more than 20 episodes in a feed, but I would probably make this a hidden feature. Most people shouldn't need any more items than that, and I don't want to clutter the interface.

The filtering does seem to be broken on users' main feeds. It does work on channels. I'll fix...
William Spaetzel replied on May 21, 2008 18:03 to the discussion "First Impressions" in CastRoller:

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm working on the Design, and have John Leschinski helping me out with that.

Good idea about the first time login page, I could put the Getting started video on there too.

I'm thinking now that I should have a few bundles of podcasts that people can choose to have added to their account. The same way that most feed readers do it.

I'll work on the Add podcasts page. I'd like to add a progress bar, something Ajaxy to make it more obvious that things are happening.

Your episodes are on your homepage: /home
I did have a link on the sidebar, but removed it to reduce redundancy. Do you think it should come back?

Good point about creating your first channel. I'll update the channels page to have a big "Create Channel" button. Most people would probably follow the same route that you did.

You don't need channels to use the site now, I actually thought that the "Your Channels" link was hidden for new users. I would only show it once you've created your first channel.

What do you mean by more control over the feed and having the feed sync up? The RSS feed should contain the same content as what you see on the site, if you don't, its a bug please send me the link

The transcoding is a good idea, it would definitely be a pro feature because it uses a lot of CPU power as well.

Thanks again!
William Spaetzel asked a question in PostRank on April 29, 2008 11:25:

502 Bad Gateway on feed link
When I click on the link given to me by the /feed api call: http://api.aiderss.com/log?url=http%3...

I am getting this message:

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/0.6.25
William Spaetzel shared an idea in Socialthing on March 10, 2008 19:13:

Track Read Updates
It would be great if Socialthing would keep track of the posts that you have read already. Perhaps mark items as read once you scroll past them like in Google Reader.

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