Version 1.5 has been submitted and should be in the App Catalog soon.
Bugs
- Load More showing gaps in home timeline ( see below)
- Links causing app to freeze
- Notifications not clearing on loading the timeline
- Wrong (and really big) notification counts in dashboard
Forward Gesture/Compose is still broken -- seems to be problem in webOS 1.4 update. (This seems broken in web browser application as well)
Features and Changes
- basic/beta TwitVid integration for uploading video
Load More
Before 1.3, some users had gaps in their home timelines when clicking "Load More". We tried to fix this in 1.3 and probably made things worse.
We are going back to the previous methods we had in 1.2. While users may still see gaps, the problem seems to on the Twitter side. In more expansive testing, it seems that the Twitter API occasionally return the wrong tweets for Load More. We are trying to find out more from Twitter
While we think the Load More behavior will be better, we don't think this is fully resolved and might be outside our control.
Opening Links and Frozen App
This is a bit complicated. We thought our update to 1.3 fixed this. It did, for some users, it didn't for others.
Apparently there are some bugs in Palm's installer that have led to some files not being overridden, even though they changed. Upon testing, we've discovered version 1.3 installations that still have some of the 1.2 files.
We are hoping this update forces an overwrite of the files in question, but it may not for everyone. For those that still have trouble with links freezing the app:
- try deleting Tweed first, then re-install -- this should clear out old files
- if it still doesn't work, please email us at tweed-support@pivotallabs.com
Video Beta
We have integrated TwitVid uploads with Tweed. We consider this a beta and expect users to experience some problems. Honestly we wanted to let people experiment sooner than later.
The largest problem is upload stability -- video files can be sizable and the upload may fail, especially over cell. We suggest using video with wifi only.
There are some webOS challenges unfortunately to making this integration more robust. The file upload mechanism in webOS doesn't allow for resuming a failed upload: it is all or nothing. For larger files (like video), this is a bit fragile.
We are hoping Palm will provide other upload mechanisms that will allow us to make this more robust, but honestly, we are a bit stuck unless they make these changes.
We plan to make add features to Tweed to provide better feedback about progress and help make retries easier.
Free Version
As we announced some time ago, we are no longer continuing development on the free version of Tweed. We haven't the resources to continue developing two versions of the application.
Unfortunately, webOS 1.4 has broken Tweed and this is something we weren't expecting. However, we still aren't in a position to support both versions (free version is no longer in US catalog), so users of 0.9.x won't be getting an update. We are sorry for this and understand it will make Tweed unusable for many/most users of this version.
To make it easier for free users to upgrade to the paid version, we are going to reduce the price of Tweed from $2.99 to $0.99 for the next few weeks. As with all Palm apps, updates are free.
A new version of Tweed is available! (v.0.9.8)
Bug Fixes
- memory leak with notifications
- timeline marker not being preserved when Load More is tapped
- loading spinner hanging when minimizing during a load
- preserve tweet position on refresh
- tweets not always displaying after Load More
- false notification reports
- removed Refresh and Load More from conversation timeline
- notifications stopped when swiping away dashboard with Tweed closed
Features
- simplified notifications: when enabled, they check every 15 minutes, independent if Tweed is open or closed
- configure notifications: selectively configure timelines
- Tap header: option to jump to top/bottom of timeline
- When loading a timeline, start with marker (if present)
- load up to 200 tweets when a marker is present (100 tweets for searches)
- notifications: display badge counter number of timelines with notifications
- notifications: dashboard stack allows users to cycle through all notification timelines
Coming soon...
- photo integration (via auto generated email) -- this week
- configure notifications for bookmarks *
Let us know your feedback either @tweed on Twitter, tweed-support@pivotallabs.com or http://tinyurl.com/satisfaction-tweed
