Thanks!

Gerald

Next up are implementation of the last features we're getting ready for launch.  Should be an exciting couple weeks with new and useful functionality coming your way!

• Can not remove bookmarks currently, generates an error.
• Home option of top menu stays highlighted when in the Sweeps and Contests area.
• and more.

Next update will have a bunch of minor bugfixes then will attack bookmarks, notifications, and entering contests with a VENGEANCE!

As always we value your feedback on problems you have and thinks you like and dislike.  Please keep the information flowing to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Gerald

Thanks!

Gerald

• Reworked authentication again.  Hopefully there is nothing you should notice on your side except a few less problems.  I do have a BIG favor to ask though. . .Please let us know if you see ANY weird problems with authentication (logging in/out) or authorization (permission denied, no access).  This is very complex code that, again, interacts with multiple applications and the best testing I can do is have you guys pound on it.  If you do see a problem please send us an email to support with the date and time, and what you saw that wasn't right.  This includes entering from bookmark notifications, logged in when you shouldn't be, logged out when you shouldn't be, access errors, unknown errors, etc.
• Went deep into the workings of how the listing functions work including sorting, bookmarking, unbookmarking, etc.  For those of you that are fairly recent (may have been since alpha even) the bookmarking and such hasn't actually worked correctly.  By design as soon as you bookmark a sweep/contest it should be immediately removed from the list unless you have Include Bookmarks checked.  It's not been working that way for awhile but should be working as designed now.
• There should no longer be any paging or sorting issues in the lists.  This includes losing sorting after paging.
• Paging works pretty much like it always has.  At some point I'll revisit this, but at the moment there's not a much better solution off the top.  What will happen is when you page it will immediately scroll you to the top of the page then load the new data (see the blue "spinner" at the top for working/idle status).  If you find that this isn't working for you, please let me know with what operating system (Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista, Mac OS X, etc) and what browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc) you are using so I can attempt to troubleshoot it.

Hopefully that wasn't too verbose.  As always thank those of you that reported and helped diagnose these issues.  If you'll keep up the good work, we'll keep up our end!

Gerald

Evening folks.  Well, black Friday really did turn out to be black for us here at SweepsU.com.  The update we released had a number of unintended side effects (read: bugs).  I think I've got just about everything squished so if you find something that disagrees with this posting, please do let us know ASAP via replying to this blog entry, the forums or community messaging (real live support email address coming this week or so, just need to train folks on ticket system).  Anyway, here's the skinny:

• The new paging system was flawed.  This caused problem with the page selector dropdown, and the items per page dropdown not working.  This also caused problems with bookmarking such that it would send you back to page one of the sweeps list and had a chance of bookmarking something other than what you clicked (usually the first entry on the first page).  Check your bookmarks, make sure you've bookmarked what you intended over the last 4 days.  I've reverted to the old paging system and all of these problems should be fixed.
• There were problems with the new authentication system where by it was slow getting authenticated from time to time.  This could also cause entering a contest from a bookmark notification to fail.  It was very rare, but happened a few times.

I think that covers everything I've heard about or noticed myself over the last couple days.  If you do see something else, or see one of the above still broken, please let us know.

Thanks!

Gerald

Deployed a couple quick fixes this morning to issues mostly related to the new authentication system.  Here's what they were:

• Fixed issue where beta applications could not be submitted due to errors in email verification.
• Fixed issue (hopefully) where entering a sweep/contest from the email notification was failing periodically.
• Removed SMS Change Log from the SMS menu.  I think the blog is probably a much better way to communicate the most current changes.  Feedback welcome.
• Other minor back-end and administrative changes.