Oddblogwherein Iain Lamb and Ethan Diamond prattle on incessantly about all things Oddpost(Untitled)- April 23, 2004 Is there any faster buzzkill than starting to drag a message into a folder, only to find that the target folder is scrolled out of view, or hidden beneath another folder No there is not, at least not when the folders pane fails to automatically scroll when you near its edges or automatically pop open folders when you hover over them. Situ-ation rrrrectified. And speaking of interface subtleties emblematic of the ceaseless attention to detail here at Oddpost, the name of the selected folder or...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a107 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 A few little things worth mentioning: We fixed the bug where some hyperlinks incorrectly included a ">" character at the end. We eliminated our dependence on the browser's Dictionary object, which is built right into IE but was somehow disappearing from a few subscribers' systems. We improved our support for folders and attachments with international (non-ascii) filenames. We moved our office &150; note the new address. We received many more unsolicited submissions of pet photos. We...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a106 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 The global village idiots continue to toss their digital sabots our way and we continue to rue every moment spent coding against them that we'd rather spend coding for you. But, you know, sometimes that's the way it is, and the result is that there's now a bandwidth limit on trial accounts and a human verification step during new account signup.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a105 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 Not only will you no longer be seeing a little red x where there should have been a side-splitting Bush-as-orangutan photo from that Mac-owning hippie freak you call a stepbrother, you'll also no longer have to download the vast majority of pics sent your way, for image attachments now appear right. in. the message. pane. Oh yeah!http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a104 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 In this particular case the brevity of the post serves as counterpoint to the enormity of the feature: drafts. Superfluous instructions right here.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a103 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 As you've surely already guessed, suggestions sent to featuresoddpost.com are jotted onto a slip of paper, baked into a fortune cookie and tossed into an official Franklin Mint pewter cracker barrel cast to resemble the head of Billy Carter. Once a week, following General Tso's honorable discharge, we circle up round the lunch captain, who reaches into Billy's cranium, pulls out a cookie, closes his eyes, spins a few times, then wings it, invariably striking an engineer square in the forehead,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a102 (Untitled)- April 23, 2004 Well drop your linen and start your grinnin cuz we got a whooole lotta sunshine to blow your way. Those aforementioned backend improvements are certainly taking a spell longer than anticipated, but we've been busy busy bees in the meantime. Read on!http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/22.html#a101 (Untitled)- April 19, 2004 We're currently tracking down a server issue that's making some accounts sluggish this morning. If you're experiencing login delays please access your account via www.mail2web.com. Thanks!http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/19.html#a100 (Untitled)- April 6, 2004 We apologize for Oddpost's sluggishness over the past few days. We're working hard to resolve the problem and very much appreciate your patience! UPDATE: We've identified the source of the slowdown and are working on a fix now. Delivery of some inbound mail is delayed, but no mail has been lost. Thanks again for your patience. UPDATE: We've temporarily disabled spam filtering while we work on the problem -- we expect to enable it again shortly.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/04/06.html#a99 |