Beta 0.7 - 27 Dec 2010
New:
- Improved login security: To avoid the potential for brute-force
password cracking attempts on ThinkUp’s login page, there is now a cap
on the number of failed logins. After 10 failed login attempts, a
ThinkUp user’s account gets deactivated. To reactivate, the user
resets his/her password via email. (Look for more security-focused
updates to the system in future releases.)
- Better retweet crawling: Thanks to Amy, ThinkUp now captures
the total of new-style retweets more accurately, and displays that
number plus the number of old-style quoted retweets that ThinkUp
detects.
- Tweet reply links: Thanks to Sam, you can now easily reply to a
given tweet from inside ThinkUp. Rollover any tweet and click on the
“Reply” link to autofill Twitter’s update form with the user name and
status ID. Screenshot:
https://skitch.com/ginatrapani/rga5j/ginatrapani-on-twitter-thinkup
- Picplz support: Thanks to Kyle, photos posted on Twitter from
http://picplz.com now show up as inline thumbnails in ThinkUp.
- Tweet photo thumbnails appear on post page: Speaking of image
thumbnails, they now appear on individual post pages like this one:
http://smarterware.org/thinkup/post/?t=13426333958807552&n=twitter
- Configure number of links to expand per crawler run: Thanks to
Sam, you can now set the number of links the Expand URLs plugin
attempts per crawler run. This number is 1500 by default and normally
won’t need to be changed. But, if your crawls are taking too long or
if you’ve got too many links to expand that aren’t happening fast
enough, you can now dial it up or down in the web interface.
Screenshot:
https://skitch.com/ginatrapani/rga5t/configure-your-account-thinkup
- Followers/Who You Follow lists updated: Twitter’s Followers/Who
You Follow lists have been simplified, and now display some
interesting stats like how many multiples of followers a user has
versus friends, and the average number of posts that user has
published per day since they joined Twitter. Screenshot:
https://skitch.com/ginatrapani/rga5a/ginatrapani-on-twitter-thinkup
- New (for developers)! Logger debug mode: Thanks to Amy, developers
who have debug=true in their config file can write debug statements to
the log while developing the crawler.
Fixed:
- Gradients in design refresh: Thanks to Andy, everyone on
every browser sees the new gradients in beta 6’s design refresh as we
intended.
- Upgrader: Mark fixed a bug that potentially caused problems
upgrading to ThinkUp’s latest version from beta 2. We now have
automated upgrade tests which run through every single possible
upgrade path from beta 1 to beta 7 passing.
- Several more little things: Application options
have been moved to the generic options table to consolidate our data
structure; Update your data links no longer throw a 404; Links to
retweet listings from the Dashboard have been corrected; Plugin
external libraries are now located in their own extlib folders.