Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Our First Romp
A little while ago, we announced Romp, our first Swaggle-sponsored group, dedicated to random fun. We're pleased to announce that, due to great planning by Sachi and Leo, the first Romp was a rousing success. The game was called, costume kickball at Cal Anderson Park, and the game was played.
Of course, we warmed up with some Spud and played a bit of Octopus Tag as well, but kickball was easily the highlight. As is the norm for costume kickball, additional rules were created as each run was scored ("yell the name of a fish upon kicking the ball", "dance to first base", etc.)
It's not too late to join Romp. The season is young, and so am I!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Messages Being Dropped: Resolved
In turns out that the issue we discovered, where messages from certain carriers were being dropped before they ever reached us, was more widespread than we thought. We're obviously quite embarrassed that this escaped detection for as long as it did, but we're pleased to report that the issue has been resolved, and we've improved our quality control to detect this type of issue in the future.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
T-Mobile Problems
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Stability, Reliability, Performance
You may have noticed some performance and reliability issues with Swaggle over the past several weeks. Our hosting service, Dreamhost, has been having problems that brought our service down for up to several hours per day. They're working on fixing it, but that was little solace to our users.
As of today, we've switched over to a more stable hosting service. Many thanks to Peter at Waggle Labs for making this happen quickly.
As of today, we've switched over to a more stable hosting service. Many thanks to Peter at Waggle Labs for making this happen quickly.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Descriptions
It must be weird the first time you get a Swaggle message: "John invites you to join Foo, a text group". Not a lot of information to help you decide whether to join.
We added a small feature that we hope will help. When you create a new group, you can set a description for it. When you invite new people to join, we'll include the description in the invitation:
On another note, we've been having problems with our hosting service lately. If you've had trouble reaching the web site or sending messages, we apologize. Our host tells us it will be solved shortly.
We added a small feature that we hope will help. When you create a new group, you can set a description for it. When you invite new people to join, we'll include the description in the invitation:
John invites you to HappyHour: "Coordinate our happy hour place". Reply .JOIN HappyHour to accept.It's hard to convey much information in a little text message, but hopefully this will help. Let us know if you have other suggestions.
On another note, we've been having problems with our hosting service lately. If you've had trouble reaching the web site or sending messages, we apologize. Our host tells us it will be solved shortly.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Romp
Swaggle is pleased to announce it's first Swaggle-sponsored Swaggle group: ROMP!
Live in Seattle? Want some spontaneous fun? Join Romp!
Romp is an unannounced summertime midnight game of Ghost in the Graveyard at Gasworks. Romp is a spontaneous Sunday afternoon game of kickball at Cal Anderson Park...in costumes! Romp is glow in the dark ultimate frisbee at Volunteer Park.
Romp is a Swaggle text messaging group. Sign up, and half a dozen times throughout the summer, you'll receive a text message to your mobile phone announcing a fun, playful event happening NOW somewhere in the city. Get out and play!
To sign up for Romp, send a text message with the words ".JOIN Romp" to Swaggle at (206) 694-9197, visit Swaggle at http://swaggle.mobi/ sign up and join the Romp group or just fill in your phone number below.
Your number won't be sold or anything nasty like that, you won't receive more than one or two messages per month, you can quit any time and it's free.