For all interested in testing non-stable versions with new features:
http://beta.twittereader.com/
Added feeds list. You insert a Twitter username and the system shall validate it and add to your list. Every username in the list (feed) has a position that can be reordered but It isn’t done yet.
Also, as you click a user to load its feed, you can do the same thing if you’re reading a message that has @username text and click it. I will add an “add” button when the user feed loaded is not on the feeds list.
If you’re reading another feed than your timeline and want to get back to your, simply click your username or your picture on the upper left corner.
Another change that was made and was very necessary was the ability for the system to know when the user is looking at the page and so, now, if you’re in the middle of reading a message or even writing one, you don’t get auto-reload, it must be explicitly requested by clicking the “reload” button on the right menu or pressing ‘r’. Thing is, when you leave the page open and you’re browsing other tabs or simply doing some other stuff on another OS application, you want to keep the feed updated, so now, when you leave the page, the system auto-reloads the feed on the background, so you can keep TR minimized and still have an updated look on the unread messages counter of the current loaded feed + page.
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2 AM here and I’m still working on user’s friends list.
There are many ways to do this. The decision that is pending is should it show username plus mini picture or just username?
I’m doing something like, next or first login where this is implemented and available, the system loads first 100 users from the friends list and stores that list on the DB. Thing is people might have more than 100 users, so it should have a next and previous pages buttons to navigate through all friends. An intelligent option is sort but sorting 500 friends over some criteria (best friends, by name, by number of updates) might be a pain in the ass! I’ll have to think about it.
Stay tuned for next version and feel free to comment suggestions!
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Early this week I bought the domain twittereader.com at GoDaddy.com (my webhost). I was managing TwitteReader from twittereader.mwmdev.com a subdomain of my website.
After purchasing twittereader.com I also upgraded my host so I have more bandwith and space as hundreds of users join every day.
Today was a busy day as I put everything up on twittereader.com and created this blog space where I will post news and TR updates.
There are many features coming, including:
- friends list - be able to read 1 user messages
- parse date
- UTF-8 cool symbols list so users can insert them in their updates
- smiles parser
- hide read messages
- space-bar jumps to the first unread message (same as GR)
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