Archive for the ‘updates’ Category

 
 
 
 

Thumbnail Image Issue Fixed

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Found the fix for thumbnail images not showing on posts for all browsers other than Firefox. That'll teach me not to be lazy and test only in Firefox on a Mac. Who knew that anyone used anything else? Turns out that Firefox is very forgiving with a fat finger typo in ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Video issue fixed

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

A couple users reported having some trouble sharing items that contained videos. The share dialog would be hidden behind the flash video on the page. I've pushed out an update that should solve this problem for all users. It's fixed it for all of the browsers that I have available here ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Email bug fixed

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

There was a bug when sending direct messages to another user where the referenced item was not included. There was just a push to the live site that fixed this issue. Let us know if you see any future issues with shared emails.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Unread item changes

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The backend system for determining unread has items has been totally revamped as of todays deployment. This will make it possible to do some cool new things and should free us up quite a bit scalability wise. The one downside is that the new system is not backwards compatible with ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Email update

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Over the weekend a new format for emails was introduced. ReadPath is now sending out dual format text / HTML emails. This should be a much cleaner format for receiving updates and notifications. Plus it should gracefully fall back to text if your email client can't handle the HTML formatting. Along ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Subscription search has been updated

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

There was an update to the subscription search pushed yesterday that has finished building and is now live. There were dozens of small tweaks to the way that the content of a subscription is examined and how its scored. Overall, this should make the results more relevant. Just a reminder that ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fixed a small DNS issue

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Discovered that there was a small issue with the ReadPath DNS after the move on friday to the new datacenter. It shouldn't have impacted end users at all as there are two DNS servers located in different networks and only one server was affected, but of course let me know ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ReadPath has a new home

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

There was a bit of downtime today as ReadPath moved south down 280 to its new home. The servers for ReadPath are now located in a top tier data center. This will help keep PG&E from taking out the site when it decides to cut the power for a couple ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The ReadPath blog has now been updated

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Finally, the look and feel of the ReadPath blog matches the main site. I'm still not sure if when you're on the blog site and you click on the main logo in the top bar, whether that should take you to the main page of the blog or the main ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Updated Search Results

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

All of the different types of searches that you can do at ReadPath have now been updated. On the News story search results we've added snippets to the results listing. The search engine does a quick scan of the content of the story to find the best snippet that is relevant ...