Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Swaggle Trouble

Swaggle had a day or so long outage but is back up. Gremlins got into the system above the point where our outage alerts are issued, so it took us a little time to notice the problem. Thanks to Peter for making it right.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Invitations Fixed

My recent update to Swaggle, introducing some monitoring and reliablity features, has already paid off. It alerted me to a bug I introduced a couple months ago regarding invitations to private groups.

When you invite someone to a private group, it should "pre-authorize" that person to join, so that when they send in the ".join group" message, they are automatically added. Instead, Swaggle has been going back to the group's owner and asking for permission a second time.

This has been fixed. I apologize for the inconvenience, and encourage you to let me know if you see behaviors like this that don't make sense.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Monkeying with the Tubes

I made a large update today that, if all goes well, you won't notice at all. I added some maintainability, monitoring and reliability features that will help me keep Swaggle healthy and will hopefully have no impact on what you see or do.

The only reason I mention it is that occasionally things don't go as planned, so, if you see anything behaving strangely, please let me know asap by dropping me an e-mail at jordan@hive-mind.com with "Swaggle" in the title. Thanks!