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Weekly updates for 2009-11-01

November 1st, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-25

October 25th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-25

October 25th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-18

October 18th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-18

October 18th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-11

October 11th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-11

October 11th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-04

October 4th, 2009

Weekly updates for 2009-10-04

October 4th, 2009

Two Twitter-related bug fixes complete

September 30th, 2009

Thanks to posts on the site-specific forum, I was alerted to a couple of org issues, which have now been resolved.

First, that the “short URLs” in Tweets were not always working; specifically, if they had a “+” sign in them, they ended up redirecting to the homepage instead of the relevant thread. This should now be fixed, an oversight on my part.

Second, it was pointed out that sometimes threads got Tweeted that really didn’t seem worthy. I examined the criteria being used, and indeed, saw a flaw; it was possible for posts to  be considered ‘hot’ and tweeted, in some cases with very few replies, but many views. This isn’t quite right, and so this has been adjusted so that a minimum number of replies are still required, regardless of the number of views.

Thanks to BartVanHemelen for reporting the issues, and to the mods for calling the threads to my attention. If you see something wrong, please do post about it in the prince.org site discussion forum!