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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Echo Whirlpools are here! ( comments)

Whirlpools is a new feature that is slowly being released for Echo. We are very excited about this upgrade, we hope you will enjoy it.

What’s new?

Long conversation threads can now be collapsed to 4 items (the first 2, the last 2 with an expander line in the middle).

Collapsed Reply Thread

What’s novel?

Similar items (e.g. Repetitive Diggs, Delicious bookmarks or RTs) will now be clustered as a single conversation thread. This clustering, along with the collapsed view, means a dramatic decrease in noise while still maintaining a single stream view.

Clustered similar items

What you need to know?

This feature will start ‘off’ by default. We will soon turn it on for all existing customers. If you would like to turn it off, you can do that from the admin Dashboard.

Collapsing long threads will apply to all legacy comments. Clustering similar items from Social Networks will not be retroactive and will only apply to new items.

For now, to turn on this feature, visit your admin dashboard at www.js-kit.com/settings and go to the ‘Echo Options’ tab.

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Service Upgrade: Release Notes ( comments)

Here are the latest changes to the Echo platform! Your feedback, as always, is welcome.

Highlights

For End Users

Pausing the live stream

  • If in live mode, rolling over any part of the Echo Stream will pause the stream.
  • The pause status will not appear unless a live event occurs in the stream while the user is viewing the page. This reduces visual noise by hiding the UI element unless it is needed.
  • While paused, if new items come in, the status will update to show the number of queued items.

We hope that this new feature will help with high-velocity discussions.

Screenshots:

Live with the cursor not on the Echo Stream

echo-pause-status---live

Cursor hovering over the stream

echo-pause-status---paused

Cursor hovering over the stream with 3 new items queue

paused-with-new-items

For Pro Customers

Complete White Labeling

Now, not only can you hide the ‘Social Networking by JS-Kit’ tag at the bottom of Echo, you can also add your own APIs keys to all identity providers, provide your own DNS support for RSS feeds and modify the Emails, Email subscribe and Email unsubscribe screens to totally hide the JS-Kit/Echo Brand.

External Profile Binding – Stage 2

The External Profile Binding feature is a unique and simple way for publishers to integrate echo into their own login system.

With the latest version of External Profile Binding, you can add your own proprietary login option to the Echo ‘From’ menu along with your own customer fav icon. External Profile Binding is turning into a complete and seamless experience for users

Other Updates

Type Name Engineer
Feature The status of Blogger or WordPress Sync is now displayed in the Admin Dashboard. aovchinn
Bugfix Comment counter is returning incorrect count in some case snaky
Feature Social Likes leon
Bugfix In some cases, Blogger import routine imports comments with incorrect time stamp. zaa
Tool An admin tool for resync of comments data aovchinn
Bugfix Improved error handling of deferred comment sync queues so that comment sync is more robust aovchinn
Feature Users are now alerted to enable ‘allow anyone to comment’ in the blogger install wizard if it is turned off lizard
Bugfix Under certain conditions, Blogger sync stops because of “The feed specified by _url_ is not enabled” error lizard
Bugfix Blogger comments sync stops if a post has “Don’t allow, show existing” or “Don’t allow, hide existing” comments option being enabled lizard
Bugfix Blogger gadget would crashe IE is some cases aovchinn
Upgrade Upgraded the WordPress import wizard so that arbitrarily large sites could be imported automatically zaa
Bugfix A mouse click on “Admin -> Log in” does not do anything andrew
Polish Ensure the Identity Providers are named the same way in the From menu and in the Authentication popup gli
Feature Publishers can now provide their own API keys for FriendFeed login for total white label siden
Polish Remove the Private Messages feature in User Profiles andrew
Bugfix Deleting a reply doesn’t delete child nodes siden
Bugfix Incorrect CSS on From/To fields labels resulting in incorrect colors at 2010.newsweek.com leon
Bugfix Improve Tweets from shared comments leon
Bugfix Make FB Login/Sharing architecture more robust snaky
Polish Yahoo! login and Branding tweaks (Based on Feedback from Yahoo!) leon
Polish Consolidating user accounts by Email via External Profile Binding lizard
Feature Support image URLs in RSS feeds using Media RSS Extensions vlm
Feature Pro customers can now add their own identity provider to the From Menu gli
Feature Publishers can now provide their own API keys for Yahoo login for total white label siden
Feature Twitter can now provide their own API keys for FriendFeed login for total white label siden
Bugfix Remove the ads from top.js andrew
Bugfix Hide user profile when hidden by user andrew
Bugfix Incorrect Mouse pointer over item controls andrew
Bugfix New “Like” option corrupts the comments in IE leon
Polish Apply a number of polish tweaks on the new Social Likes feature leon
Bugfix The “restore access by email” functionality is broken for legacy sites siden
Bugfix Comment Form disappears and the comment text in the form is lost when a new comment is inserted in real-time andrew
Bugfix Long links are sometimes broken by the comment form lizard
Bugfix “Reply to comments via email” functionality is broken for new sites siden
Polish User Profile text tweaks andrew
Bugfix Smiles and links change appearance at the next subscribe request snaky
Bugfix In some cases comments data was not being displayed in the client siden
Feature Serverside item filtering by ‘Source’ using Include and Exclude Parameters andrew
Bugfix Anonymous comments do not display the user {Name} in Navigator andrew
Feature Make URLs optional, If toggled off, should not be displayed in mini profile and From menu andrew
Feature Whitelabel support for Email subscribe/unsubscribe oleg
Feature Whitelabel for RSS URLs snaky
Feature Remove onpage reference of permalink virtan
Bugfix Facebook avatars not re-sized correctly andrew
Bugfix In some cases, Facebook avatars disappear andrew
Polish Change the sample link to YouTube leon
Polish Item controls now light up when the cursor is over the item andrew
Bugfix In some cases, moderation is broken for additional moderators (without root privileges) doubleyou
Polish Website Tweaks oley
Bugfix Deferred queues watchdog doesn’t remove failed syncs from work pool oleg
Bugfix Successful completion of Blogger and wordpress impor should trigger draining of the deferred queue aovchinn
Bugfix Automatic sync processing does not work if a site’s SYNC.HISTORY file has information about a reference oleg
Bugfix Sync watchdog does not process a domain if it does not have SYNC.HISTORY.* file zaa
Feature Echo now detects mobile browsers and disables the Rich Text Editor (TinyMCE) if it is turned on by the publisher lizard
Bugfix In some cases, adding some Identity Providers incorrectly creates new user accounts snaky
Bugfix Can’t add emoticons after logging in or logging out snaky
Bugfix Improve visitor profile behavior when lizard
Polish Items shared from Echo to social networks no longer appear in the stream twice doubleyou
Story Clean up admin authentication model so that all admins must log in oleg
Feature Show delivering status for comments siden
Bugfix In some cases, Blogger or WordPress Sync duplicates comments oleg
Polish Remove SmoothGray and Wireframe options from dashboard snaky
Feature Stage two of External Profile Binding aovchinn
Bugfix ‘Grab It’ code on Navigator doesn’t work leon
Bugfix Incorrect pagination OR comment counter in some cases snaky
Feature Pause and queue the live stream when cursor rolls over the Echo stream virtan
Bugfix SSL certificate error (https://wiki.js-kit.com/)
Feature Visitor Profiles & Mini Profile glitches andrew
Bugfix The default amount of root nodes should be 15 doubleyou
Bugfix Facebook sharing from bound account does not work snaky
Bugfix Issue with TinyMCE on building43.com doubleyou
Bugfix Sharing to Twitter truncates links leon
Bugfix Username and email not updated after log in snaky
Bugfix Facebook sharing popup sometimes presents sharing for the last logged in account rather than the current account snaky
Bugfix In some cases, comments in RSS/HTML format may contain DELETED and BANNED comments virtan
Bugfix We should allow passing of “rel” attribute for tag. virtan

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