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75 votes
Add the ability to Delete tweets and FF posts
I want to Delete Tweets and/or FF posts from within "AlertThingy"
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69 votes
@ Reply to Tweets from FriendFeed
I would like to be able to reply to tweets coming via friendfeed.com. They currently don't have a 'reply' button!
Tweet that come in via FriendFeed only or via both twitter and FriendFeed (then de-duped) do not have a 'reply' button. This is a technically challenging problem to solve and are looking at ways to fix this issue.
- jeremybaines -
22 votes
Collapse/Expand all entries
Some items (especially those that attract a heap of comments) can take up most of the screen. I would like to see the ability to collapse/expand all entries (default options set to either expand all, or collapse all).
If each item could be collapsed to 1-2 lines (source, who it's from, time, title or first 60 chars etc.), that will let us see a lot more info on the screen at once... which if you're following a lot of people will make the task of sorting through the noise a heck of a lot easier.
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15 votes
Would like to set the update speed.
5min updates is too slow for me. I would like to be able to adjust how often the application updates.
We plan on improving the update speed!
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11 votes
Username-based Group Based Views
So Twitter and Friendfeed dont support groups, doesn't mean the client app cant! :)
I want the ability to create groups, and assign people I follow to those groups, across both Friendfeed and Twitter contacts.
I kinda imagine this as being able to right click on a Tweet/update or the username of the person the tweet/update came from, then it saying something like "assign to group" with a foldout of the groups I made to choose from.
Alertthingy would then always associate that users Tweets/Updates with that group.Every user would have an associated group name somewhere nearby, perhaps in small letters underneath the username.
You can then choose different views to watch. the general view would be the default, and show all updates, and you could "tab" easily between groups.This would give us all some level of control over all the stuff we follow. And this can extend to any other service AlertThingy chooses to support.
Interesting suggestion. It would be nice to hear some other users perspective on this one.
- jeremybaines -
9 votes
Add preference for disabling alert pop-up
The alert pop-up can be overly distracting when I'm working. There should be a way to disable it.
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9 votes
Let me control the feed for each service
Like Facebook's Story slider bars -- see this: http://tinyurl.com/2vw2cg
Great idea! - For the moment you can play with the FriendFeed 'hide' functionality (on their site) to get some control over feeds.
- jeremybaines -
7 votes
Filter Alerts Using Regular Expressions
In the settings, let me automatically filter out alerts using regular expressions. That way I can block certain keywords or tweets that are just replies to other users.
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7 votes
Add FriendFeed logo to updates like other services
There is currently no icon there. Is there a reason why FriendFeed updates have no icon next to them like all the other services? Please add this feature. I would like to see where each update is coming from clearly. Color icons would be nice too.
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6 votes
Add support for identi.ca!
identi.ca is an open source microblogging tool that has cloned the Twitter API. That means that it's dead simple to add support for it (just copy the code and exchange the Twitter API URL with identi.ca's API URL, and you're done!). Please add support for it!
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6 votes
make the alert toast/notification clickable
when an alert pops up in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen i want to be able to click on it to open it up immediately (so it clicks through to the page, exactly as a click on a tweet/update in the alertthingy app does). currently it's non-clickable, which makes it a faff to access stuff that i want to check out.
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6 votes
Color service icons (instead of grey) next to each update
Instead of having grey icons next to each update can you use full color icons that resemble the official logos of the services. Maybe this can be offered just as an option for those who may like it to stay as is for asthetic reasons. I personally would like to be able to easily identify the service whether it be flickr, Netflix, Amazon, twitter, or whichever service, in their unique color logos.
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5 votes
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5 votes
take Flickr support one further
Wouldn't it be great if I could drag a picture in, have it upload to flickr, create a tinyurl, and post it to twitter? That would be awesome.
We think we are close to that already! Flickr upload will already give you a tiny URL back at the end of an upload. So all you really need to to paste into twitter.
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5 votes
Switch to/offer option of Twhurl for sharing links
Twurl is a much more useful URL shortening service, especially since it offers basic statistics like how many clicks each link gets, and the most-clicked links a user has shared. TinyURL doesn't seem interested in innovating anymore, while more useful and integrated services like Twurl are.
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4 votes
add option to turn on/off twitter sms based on idle time
It would be nice with the possibility to have Alert Thingy enable Twitter SMS delivery (added to the API recently) when idle on the computer. Once back at the computer, SMS delivery is turned off again.
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4 votes
it would be nice to be able to sort alerts by origin.
I would like to be able to sort alerts based on which service they are coming from. Show only twitter for example.
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4 votes
add real-time updates to twitter messages like Google Talk
The lag is what is keeping me from using a client other than Google Talk full-time.
We are working to speed up the update process.
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3 votes
really really slooww on updates! started
Even after 40 minutes an alert was added to Twitter page, Alert Thingy still didn't update.
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3 votes
search in unicode content
search should work in unicode content
Not sure if this is an Adobe AIR problem or a problem for us! I will investigate this one.
- jeremybaines -
3 votes
Support larger font sizes!
On large monitors, and especially with Asian languages, it is very hard to read text at the default font size. Why not allow users to choose their own font size?
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3 votes
Install button should work in Linux
Adobe AIR beta just came out for Linux. I installed it and tried to install AlertThingy but the flash based install button on the site says that Adobe AIR is not available for my system. It obviously is, so fix that
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3 votes
add a different format for @ replies of Twitter posts to me
Right now it is hard to see if a post is just part of the stream of news or directed at myself. I would love to have replies directed at me standing out, maybe by being bold or by inverting the color scheme or something.
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2 votes
Give us a manual download/installation option
The Flash installer doesn't work on my eee PC, but downloading and installing .air files manually works fine. Have I missed the download somewhere?
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2 votes
have an option for twitter text box on the bottom
It just an asthetic issue. I am just used to finding a text box on the bottom. Maybe this feature can be added as a choice.
We don't see ourself as a just twitter FriendFeed & Flickr client which is why we went for the drop down approach. Perhaps it will make more sense as we build out the app.
- jeremybaines
