rePownce Blog

New Facebook Transition

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:53:53 +0000

rePownce is in transition to the recent Facebook changes. Users during the previous Facebook may notice notes with embedded images not publishing to their feeds. If details of notes in the mini feed may be hidden, go to the Application settings for rePownce and under the Wall tab, select the “One line, short, full” size.

Those adding rePownce with the new Facebook may notice issues with the different publishing methods. As a temporary solution, try adding rePownce under the old Facebook then switch back.

I hope you can bear with me while I work to adjust rePownce to the new changes.

Pownce API Issues

admin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:39:58 +0000

There have been issues trying to access the Pownce API, preventing rePownce from functioning properly. As soon as the issues with the API are resolved, rePownce should be back up.

Update 6/9: rePownce should be working again. I’m working on a fix to restore embedded media.

Tweaks and Fixes

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:34:03 +0000

A few tweaks and fixes have been pushed out today.

narrow profile includes embedded images
feed publishing supports file messages
fixed link for file messages in profilebox
fixed issue when publishing a message containing quotes to feed

It’s All About the Notes

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:50:54 +0000

You can now publish your nonpublic and privates notes to your profilebox and feeds and reply to notes too! Notes also include more embedded media thanks to oEmbed.

The profilebox should be updating again. If it hasn’t, please try the preview/update link on settings page. Let me know if problem persist.

Update: I have modified the preview profilebox to find matching notes from your public sent feed.

Profilebox kinda broken

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:15:55 +0000

Profilebox updating is on hold for the time being. Something recently changed on Pownce which effected the way rePownce retrieved notes for your profilebox. As a temporary solution, you can manually update your profilebox on the settings page. Although this will grab all your sent notes including replies.

I have addressed this issue on the next update that I hope to make ready over the weekend. Feed publishing and status syncing should still be working. Please bear with me for just a little bit longer.

rePownce on Pownce Apps

admin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:19:55 +0000

rePownce makes it as a Featured App on Pownce. Sweet!

I appreciate all those who are using rePownce. I have been preoccupied lately, and apologize for not delivering improvements as soon as I like. Over the weekend, I’ll be working to improve stability and to implement more features. I welcome any suggestions of what features you’d like to see on rePownce.

rePownce Problems

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:16:17 +0000

rePownce is experiencing issues communicating with Pownce. Service will be restored as soon as these issues are resolved.

4/4/2008: Seems like the problem fixed itself. rePownce should be working properly now.

Pownce from rePownce

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:00:22 +0000

Some long awaited features have been finally released.

You can now post notes to Pownce and access all your notes from the homepage. To unlock these feature, please authenticate with Pownce from the settings page.

The rePownce Bot is now live. rePownce B. will process notes for status syncing and feed publishing. If you are a new user and haven’t received a request from rePownce B. within 24 hours, please contact me with your username for quicker processing.

Finally, you can sync your status with all, public, nonpublic, or private notes. To sync nonpublic or private notes, make sure rePownce B. is set as a friend.

If you encounter any bugs, just let me know.

Who is rePownce Bot?

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:29:39 +0000

rePownce will soon be using an alternative strategy for publishing notes to Facebook. The current method has become slow and inadequate as the user base grows.

The Pownce user “rePownce Bot” will be used to aggregate recent notes of all rePownce users. This change will allow rePownce to better process recent notes to users’ Facebook and reduce the load on the Pownce API.

By having rePownce Bot as a fan, rePownce will be able to publish your recent public notes. rePownce can also publish your non-public notes when rePownce Bot is allowed as a friend. All notes aggregated by rePownce Bot will be kept private and only be used to process your notes to Facebook.

No action is required of you so as long as you have rePownce Bot as a fan. Recent updates will still be processed with the current method until the new strategy is ready to be pushed out.

Any feedback is welcome, either leave a comment or contact me.

Format and Filter

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:19:23 +0000

The processing of notes being published to the Facebook feed has been tweaked for better formatting.

The filter for status updates has been added. Only notes that are messages and are within 60 160 characters (including prefix) will be used in status updates.

Update: Ack! The status update limit was actually 160 characters, so I’ve changed the filter to that.