New website – a Map of Public Toilets in London
Not a surprise, but the lack of interest in the application means it is mothballed in development terms, although it still works fine, and I am personally still using it.
In other news, I have been working on a new website, which is nearly finished now, and there is a preview of my new Map of London Toilets now available.
Now Supports Sending via New ReTweet Function
Sending ReTweets is now supported by both the new and old methods. Either send the ReTweet without editing (the new method), or edit the Tweet and then send it (the old method).
Support for displaying ReTweets sent to you is still being worked on. It seems to be very API intensive which is a downside of the system.
ReTweet bug fix
An annoying but rare bug where you couldn't send a retweet has been fixed. Seemed some Twitter clients were inserting a type of linefeed that wasn't being trapped out by the usual methods within the server and that broke the javascript in your browser.
Direct Messages Bugs Fixed
A few bugs with the display of direct messages (DM) have now been fixed. Only seemed to apply to selected messages and occasionally displayed an SQL error, which really should never happen.
Sorry about that!
Send tweet bug fix
An occasional bug where sending a Tweet got back an error message about no status being set has now been fixed.
This also just happened to also fix another underlying issue which meant occasionally "reply to" messages couldn't be tracked within the new conversations function.
Profile Images
Clicking on profile photos/avatars will now display the users original source image as a pop-up layer.
Note not everyone has a larger image to display, so it can sometimes show just the small source image.
Conversations
A new feature has been added.
When a Tweet is posted that is in response to someone else's Tweet, then you can click on the link presented to see the conversation as it evolved.
At the moment, limited to the latest five messages in the conversation, although I expect to modify that once I am confident it isn't causing any problems.
Note, it only tracks messages where someone has deliberately clicked Twitter's "reply to" button. If you just type @username as a completely new Tweet, then that won't be picked up as Twitter will presume it is a new conversation and not related to any previous messages.
Saving your Personalised Layout
If you have a lot of lists open at the same time and spend a bit of effort in laying them out exactly as you like, it can be a pain to have to do that each time you log-in.
Now you can save the layout and it will reused each time you log in.
There is a "save layout" link at the top of the page - each time you click it the layout at that moment will be saved.
Bug fixing
Still working through bugs that are cropping up as I use the service on a full-time basis.
Some issues with sending tweets and getting odd responses back have been resolved - a headachy issue with encoding urls between different programming languages caused that.
The double loading of Tweets when you first log in is still causing concern, although it doesn't actually affect functionality of the site after the first refresh. This is now fixed - yay!
Sometimes a website address inside a Tweet is not rendered correctly - this is being looked into. Should be fixed now.
Twitter API counter issue, although a known issue with Twitter seems to be more than averagely weird at the moment. It doesn't actually affect site functionality, so might just turn the display off until Twitter fixes it.
Obviously, also need to add in missing functionalities.
Public Launch Delay
Mainly due to illness meaning that a couple of last minute bugs couldn't be fixed, have delayed the launch. For various reasons, want to announce Polygius on a Friday afternoon, as it gives me the weekend to bug-fix urgent problems.
As it is I have a week to keep working on making the application more stable - particularly in handling Twitter errors which is a fairly urgent issue.
