Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

After spending forever in review, the ILX iPhone app has been approved.

WHAT IT CAN DO
- Read and post to ILX (or the Sandbox or any other server running a really recent version of ConversationBoard for that matter)
- Set and delete bookmarks
- Automatically check for updated bookmarks
- See pictures in posts, resized for the screen
- Open Youtube and links in its own browser
- Quote post text
- Easy bold and italics in the post composer
- Post drafts automatically saved until you delete or post them

COMING SOON
- Polls: Right now the threads are displayed, but the options aren't there and you can't vote
- Starting a new thread

WHAT IT WON'T DO
- Work with the old-style bookmarks. If you've set them in preferences, unset them to use Zing.

WHAT IT NEEDS
OS 3.0 or better (if you've got an old iPod Touch you'll have to upgrade, but 3.0 is miles better anyway)

Zing Lite is free on the app store. There is also the buy-Stet-a-pint version, Zing Touch, which is £4.99/$7.99 and will probably get new features first. Right now they are identical, except for some wee ads in Zing Lite.

Anyway links to the App Store (they open in iTunes):
Zing Touch and Zing Lite

Bump. It's not live in searches yet, but the links above work

omg

um, this is great, but I'm waiting for the Motorola Razr version.

hahaha the hat!

just bought you a pint =-0

also lol at me being in the screenshits O_o

weeeeee!

lol @ last screenshot

*downloads furiously*

this is great stet!

works like a charm

phew! tx! And thanks dyao! I liked yr pic pls don't sue me

WOW

pint-friendly version bought!

lol being on the app store is probably the most coverage I'll ever have, thanks ;o)

great job y'all!!! er I don't actually have an iPhone so I can't check out the app but it looks great!!!

You must be at least 17 years old to download this application
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity
Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor

I am posting from my tooch right now!

change ILTMI description to "I am posting from my cooch right now!"

prediction: stet's gonna get wasted!

well-deserved wasted imo

wasteder now

Thanks, Stet. Enjoy your pint!

stet<3 stet<3

Testing testing...

Awesome!

Thanks

Thanks
--Jeff

Yes

Nice one!

next pint's on me.

thanks millions!!!

(LOL @ you = too slow)

Pint version bought. This is v. great.

YAY! AND IM IN THE SCREENSHOTZ!

I kind of love that max's display name in one of the screenshots got the phrase "rip dom passantino" into the App Store.

ok maybe one of the best iPhone apps so far ON IPHONE

Posting from zing litr, works great, thanks!

Happily contributed to Stet's collection of pints.

oh so excited for this, will purchase you a pint soon, thx so much stet!

Now posting ON IPHONE

I am posting from Zing Touch.

Im sure I am just dense but what are the diffs btwn the paid and free zinger? I need to update my tooch sw before i can even use this anyway.

There is also the buy-Stet-a-pint version, Zing Touch, which is £4.99/$7.99 and will probably get new features first. Right now they are identical, except for some wee ads in Zing Lite.

Ah of course. Going blind is me.

Another pint from me, raa!

Oh, and I got it direct from the ON IPHONE app store.

Featurerequests: reordering of boards in the board list, so I can drag my favourites to the top. And those little filled-or-hollow bullet points that tell me whether there are new posts in a thread.

amazing!!

lol @ tipping thred in screenshots - says it all, really

I am rockin this now and it is awwwwesome

can someone please post screenshots here for those of us who are itms:// deficient

I have posted a review.

Stet this is really cool and would be even better if I had an Iphone :-( great work though.

just one question ... what the hell are you drinking at £4.99 a pint????

it's ten bucks for us, more like "buy me a jug"

lol at screenshot #4

prediction: stet's gonna get wasted!

Oh god, he'll turn up at mine and make me drink vodka with a Blue Aftershock mixer.

Anyway, yes. This is truly a piece of aceness.

Stellar.

it's a (I believe) 70/30 split between Apple and stet, so I think it work out to about a pint :^)

stet this is awesome, thanks so much man!

Pint from me! Thank you!

Awesome stuff, thanks very much, everyone! I really appreciate it. I had no idea there were so many iphones on here.

koogs: There's some slightly out-of-date-but-mostly-right screenshots in this post

JimD: Yeah, am working on editing the boards that appear on the start page so you can cut it down to your favourites and reorder etc.

Ace. :)

ok this is pretty amazing -- fantastic work!

can someone please post screenshots here for those of us who are itms:// deficient

I will, happily, because just yesterday I figured out how to do screenshots on an iPhone: as you hold the home button at the bottom, press the sleep button on top. It saves a screenshot to your photoroll, which you can then email to yourself and upload to tinypic.

Give me just a sec...

Oops, I didn't see stet's post just above with the link to screenshots. Yeah, it basically looks like that. The only main difference is that pictures don't appear in the thread - you have to click on the individual posts to see them. Which is actually fine, because it makes picture heavy threads load a lot faster.

Again, great work Stet, this is going to make goofing off on ILX waaaaay easier at work now. :)

Thank you! Yeah, it's never done the images inline -- the performance would be really horrible and slow. I might look at doing an image browser like in Facebook for picture threads, though.

Holy lol at the screenshots

One thing I'd request; a white background on the app logo. It'd look so much nicer on my screen.

Found this thru my app store search. iPhone is being stupid and not letting me install.

An image browser would be fantastic!

D/l'ed the lite version today, will grab the $8 full when I get paid next week. Gotta save money for upcoming trip to NYC next week ON IPHONE.

Just searched found and downloaded today. Awesome!

do any of these profits go to server costs

feature request: landscape keyboard! also more bb code tags

yep, have landscape keyboard working already, also the full set of bbcode will be in 1.1. I've got a few other fixes, but I couldn't upload them while it was in review without losing my place in the queue. App store is frustrating as hell.

just spotted a bookmarking bug too. Will fix

I don't think stet making this app and stet running the server have anything to do with each other, jeff. If it were any other user writing the app would you have asked the question?

hey stet are u going to add admin log at some point?

Wasn't going to -- it's not in the API, so it'd be hard. Same with search, but I'd really like to add that somehow.

Shld also add SB for czn's portable suggestin needs.

I like the message you get when you x post

desired feature when you can be arsed to get around to it: local timestamping for logged-in users?

another request -

to stay where u were when u quit the app, instead of goin back to the list of boards

regardless - what a terrific program!!

^ yes, the latter

hello when will android version come out pls?

im embarrassed at how rad i find this app, i mean, i dont want to admit how great it is to use ilx on my iphone, but, you know.

any chance we could get archiving of bookmarks for offline browsing?

you could just use instapaper for all yr offline bookmarkin needs - i find myself using it more than safari these days

Tracer: does it need to save whereever you are, or can it just remember if you're reading a thread or in the middle of compose. I've been trying to save state, but it's a bit tricky as the server can completely change between launches, and threads that were there have dropped off new answers.

Archiving of bookmarks is a good idea actually -- then you could bookmark a post before getting on the subway or w/e, and the whole thing'd be there on the phone. Or I could add in Instapaper integration.

exactly as it was wd be ideal but just remembering what thread you were reading wd be almost as great

Archiving of bookmarks is a good idea actually -- then you could bookmark a post before getting on the subway or w/e, and the whole thing'd be there on the phone. Or I could add in Instapaper integration.

yes, exactly.

does instapaper even need integration? i just hit the "read later" bookmark in firefox and BILL VIOLA this thread is there

oh, within zing of course, duh

id rather have a built-in archiving feature in zing

that seems simpler

im embarrassed at how rad i find this app, i mean, i dont want to admit how great it is to use ilx on my iphone, but, you know.

this kind of changes the way i look at ILX even. it's more like twitter now.

is that a good thing? RT @cutty this kind of changes the way i look at ILX even. it's more like twitter now.

trending topics
#tipping
#suggestban
#tfl
#rafaout

it's a private community twitter filled with people i don't know

This rules

take off auto-caps lock jeez

what auto-caps lock?

This rules

― lots of jerks (gbx), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:57 PM

an issue for gbx not you

o lol

not caps lock i guess, auto capitalization of the first letter

gbx is a poster who traditionally posts in all lowercase

this is a problem for me with all iphone typing

yeah being on IPHONE messes w/my steez

see also auto-correct

did you mean ON IPHONE

nothing works :(

it's ok we still <3 u

even ON IPHONE

this kind of changes the way i look at ILX even. it's more like twitter now.

If people start @screenname replying to posts I'm gonna roll some heads.

it's already happening

RT @kenc hello when will android version come out pls?

@James Mitchell: When I get an android phone, I guess.

@Stet: Remember that dude who wrote the first iPod plugin for iTunes and managed to persuade everyone to stump up cash to buy him an iPhone <140>

@Stet: so he could write a version for that? Just sayin', like.

d Stet: Jesus, I hope nobody thinks I'm being serious there.

Wonder how hard it could be to do myself, as a complete programming novice?

@JamesMitchell I'm going to give it a try I think

@stet does the zing app parses just regular ilx pages or is there some kind of web services/API? (guessing it's former?)

@allofu STOP THIS RIGHT NOW

@HI DERE who is "allo flu"? i think youre doing it wrong

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #twitterhate

KenC it's a bit of both. The mobile interface puts out XML, but I had to write a lot of interfacing for boomarking, posting and logging in (that one's a nightmare)

blackberry is more important than android anyway ;)

Yay finally got this. Husband larfed because I was showing him while iphone was attached to the macbook.

Got this today. Love it! Thank you.

i <3 stet

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4118422763_22d692e209_m.jpg

Hahah

I heart the "you = slow" error message. I'm hoping there's a "Poxy Fule" one hidden in there somewhere.

see 'about zing touch 1.0'.

@Stet: Remember that dude who wrote the first iPod plugin for iTunes and managed to persuade everyone to stump up cash to buy him an iPhone <140>

― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:58 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

itunes didn't used to support the ipod?!

He meant the last.fm scrobbler that read iPod playcounts, I think.

(lxy: tu! I was worried Apple would ding those as unprofessional, but App Store Reviewer didn't get any errors, phew)

i have had a couple crashes but never an error message!

One crash I know about is doing stuff while it's still setting a bookmark, am working on that. I should get your crash reports next month, which'll tell me more.

I've had the too slow message.

Are you thinking about search functionality, btw? That would be mega awesome.

a side application to automatically superimpose andrey arshavin onto pictures?

Would be awesome.

is too slow the xpost error or something?

Yep.

holy crap!

(finally got this. damn how fasrmt does it load compared to an ilx webpage? wayway faster)

Liking this very much indeed. Have another pint on me, stet.

Love this so much. Instapaper button and white-on-black text choice would be awesome additions, btw.

love using Zing on my touch. Easier to post from the bathroom.

easier to post from the dinner table

the bed

a boat

with a goat

...while floating in your moat... ???

while pooping

the bed

― la monte jung (cutty), Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:17 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you should get a separate 23" iphone for your bedroom

it's called an imac, i have one

― 囧 (dyao), Saturday, November 28, 2009 8:07 PM (2 weeks ago)

― too shart (am0n), Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:10 PM (17 minutes ago)

^^^

was am0n pooping?

i can post with one hand and guzzle down some protein gel with the other

while pooping

― too shart (am0n), Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the bed

― la monte jung (cutty), Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:17 PM (2 weeks ago)

This is the greatest thing ever, btw.

would it be uncouth to post our wishlists of features?

not if it's anything like your save SMS DRAFTS feature for the iphone

I've made a list of feat requests with everything that was posted to this thread, and am working through it. if there's new ones, post away!

Raygun.

Exploding angel vagina.

when the screen changes orientation, you move to a difft place in the thread, sort of annoying. that's the only new thing I guess.

Pachyderm sex.

Am still working on this. Some things will take longer (offline, saving your place), but in the meantime I've just sent v1.5 to Apple, so it should be with you, er ...

Release notes:
NEW
- Full poll support: Read and vote in open polls; see results of closed polls
- You can now re-order and delete boards.
- Deleted boards are hidden from Site New Answers (to restore to defaults, just log in again)
- Compose posts with the landscape keyboard
- Timezone support. Thread, poll and message timestamps appear in your local timezone.
- New buttons for all BBCode tags, including smart completion of images and web links.

UPDATES
- Vastly faster bookmarking
- Much faster startup and login times
- Better quoting of messages for reply
- Better account checking in the login screen

FIXES
- Site icons are now loaded properly
- Threads with very old ilxor.com HTML now load properly
- Thread display keeps your place after rotation
- Thread status display updates properly after visting a nested thread
- Thread scrolls to correct place of permalinked post, if possible

oh yeah, the image and web links thing: if you have an image URL on the pasteboard and hit the image button, it'll automatically be filled out. If you have a URL on the pasteboard and hit the Link button, it'll fill out the long-style URL bbcode and leave space for your title. Otherwise, both just put in the simple tags.

awesome!!

oh shit, forgot to say, this is v1.5 of Zing Touch. I'll work on putting the bugfixes into Zing Lite at some point shortly.

landscape!!

I love stet.

Blimey that was fast. Approved by Apple; should be on the store shortly.

they really like ILX

bought you a pint, stet

I'm posting sideways

u won't post right for a week

bought you a pint, stet

Same here. Thanks for your hard work!

wtf is lovecalc

bug report:

in landscape mode---
* if posting from very bottom of thread, get this weird thing where i can't see what i'm typing
* if posting from mid-thread, it's no problem but there's no bar sayin italics/bold/more

Could there be a better way to signify which threads are polls? I know it says poll there, but it all just blends in with the rest of the text.

Thanks guys!

Gbx: what do you mean about posting from the bottom? I can't make it do what you're saying. I have an idea what it could be though, I'll change it and it see if it fixes it for you.

The buttons: yeah, I don't know where to put them! If they're in a bar you only get one line of text, which is crap. You're not allowed put extra buttons in the navbar at the top, either. Am open to ideas...

(cutty: lol app of shame (every iPhone dev I know has one) TheLovecalc was the first app I ever wrote for the Mac, when I was 13 and thought you could impress girls with computers. So I made it my first iPhone app to try out the store and ads etc.)

Jeff: yeah, I could add a poll badge to the thread line (like the favicon on the boards page), would that be enough? Might make that a pref though.

http://jsbrito.org/web_images/joe_thumbs_up.gif

from the bottom: if i scroll the thread all the way to the last post, and hit the box in the upper right hand corner to post, the posting box is different from what i get if i hit the button half way down the thread

Awsome ★★★★★
by Txmaximum

Cool

Are you reading in horizontal mode, or turning it once the post box opens? Xp

reading first

You know the ad stats on lovecalc are scary. Some people are opening it hundreds of times a day

Xp how many lines of text can you see when the box opens fucked up? (really sorry you're seeing this btw, will try to fix asap if I can work out what it is)

ok weird it shows what looks to be like two lines of text but when i type nothing shows up. UNLESS: i switch to normal view, at which point the italic/bold/more bar disappears completely. THEN, if i switch back to landscape, the cursor is in the right spot, and i can see what i'm typing

however: even tho it doesn't show what i'm typing, it works (cf my post upthread "I'm posting sideways")

What model iPhone/iPod is this?

3gs

ok totally baffling now: landscape presents w/o italic bar and vertical makes it show up.

wish I could be more helpful!

ok closing in: behavior changes after hittig the bookmark button!

stet, thanks for the update!

Same as mine. I think I know what the problem is, though: it's to do with it checking what the phone's orientation is.

It sounds like for some reason your accelerometer isn't always reporting which way up your phone is, it's just reporting the changes. (If i'm right, scrolling to the bottom in portrait, opening the compose window and then turning to landscape should work right)

I'll try and write around it.

Xp: yeah the italic bar only shows up in portrait mode (no room in landscape).

ah, that's the thing. when I hit BM and then open up a response window in landscape, the italic bar IS there and it obscures what I'm writing.

Ah! That should never happen! WTF? It might be worth trying to reinstall it from the store (you won't get charged again), because that's well wrong.

took a pic 4 u

goddamnit itunes isn't showing/downloading the update :(

logged out/logged in and got it...can't wait!

Sorry if this has been asked, but how do I get rid of a bookmark accidentally set on a thread I'm not interested in following? Otherwise completely love Zing and hope you enjoyed a pint stet.

Cheers! If you hit the "edit" button on the top right of the start screen, a delete button will appear next to the bookmarks. You can also just swipe right-to-left on the bookmark you want to delete.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4275176368_d47718a040_o.jpg

Aha! I can make it happen too if I lie the iPhone flat. Right, I'll fix this tonight. Cheers gbx

n/p

new version up now, should fix yr problem

I updated and now bookmarks are not working. Also, I can't post at all, it says for unknown reasons.

Sounds like the cache is corrupted: open the accounts pane (gear icon on home screen) and log in again to clear them all. If that doesn't work, reinstalling definitely should. (Nothing's changed in bookmarks, or posting)

Seems to have worked. Thanks!

phew! sorry bout that.

iPad version coming soon???

I had a play with one, but it looks weird -- and ILX in Safari on the iPad is pretty top. Will have a look again when I actually get an iPad.

Quick question: if I delete Zing Touch and then download it again, will I have to pay for it again?

I ask because something went horribly wrong with it a few weeks ago, and since no one else has mentioned it, I'm assuming it's something with my phone and I need to reinstall it. All my bookmarks were deleted, and whenever I try to add a new one, the app crashes. Also, it won't let me post new messages.

clear your cache

Sounds like the cache is corrupted: open the accounts pane (gear icon on home screen) and log in again to clear them all. If that doesn't work, reinstalling definitely should. (Nothing's changed in bookmarks, or posting)

― stet, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:37 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

I'll give it a shot right now, thanks!

to answer the other question, as long as you make the 'purchase' from the same account you originally bought it with, you won't be charged again

fixed, thanks again!

dyao OTM

The one problem I have with it is that 77 doesn't show up in the list of boards. (Yes, I am a member. )

Try logging in again (same procedure as above). The board list is saved to make startup quicker, so it doesn't notice new boards being added to your account very often.

That worked. Thanks.

i just downloaded this. so much better than in safari BUT whenever i bookmark it crashes (closes and returns to iphone app page) and doesn't save the bookmark. someone might have mentioned this already but this thread tl;dr.

I may be missing something obvious, but can you create topics using the app?

sunny successor: Do you have traditional bookmarking set? The app needs to use the new-style bookmarks, and might be crashing if it doesn't find them. To check, go into Preferences (on the site itself) and make sure "Use traditional bookmarks" is *not* ticked.

Jeff: Not yet -- that and search are my next big to-dos after multitasking (which is just about done)

stet, not zing related but figured this thread has your attention :) is there any easy way to incorporate spoiler support for ilx (e.g. highlight text to reveal, otherwise it's a block of black chars)

Hey that's a great idea. Will think.

stet i did indeed have trad bmking set. ill try it again today/. thanks!!

....but finish the new topics feature first. (I almost called this the "ask a question" feature. I've been on ILX way too long. ) That's the really important thing.

<spoiler>this album sucks!</spoiler>

Anyone out there running iOS 4.0 fancy being a beta tester?

i have a bug with mine recently where i can't post anything, it says "it is a mystery" fail message.

It'll be the cache; I don't know what's causing it but I'll have a look just now.

To fix: Press the gear icon on the home page, and then press login.

Sorry, quick question -- is tere a search feature in this? If so, I can't find it. Other than that, love it.

not yet iirc

<-----------can help test

Top, thanks! Can you send me your UDID? (stet @ ilxor) Instructions here: http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/08/udid-itunes.html

hey i can test too. i actually do it for a living. one feature id like to see -> the ability to pick the boards i see in site new answers.

Any plans for an Android app, Stet? Way more Androids than iPhones in the UK (although admittedly these stats don't take into account the iPod Touch, or the probability that ILX users skew Apple-wards).

Sunny: that feature's in there, sort-of: hit "edit" on the home screen and delete the boards you don't care about and it'll hide them from SNA too. (Do you just want to hide from SNA and still keep them on the list?)

Android: Ken C was talking about looking at doing one. I'm probably not: don't have one and don't know how to code for it!

Interesting. Visits to ILX via mobiles in last two weeks (doesn't include Zing visits)
1. iPhone 8,162
2. iPod 2,516
3. Android 1,968
4. iPad 1,185
5. BlackBerry 1,036

Way more Androids than iPhones in the UK

Have you got a link for this one? It sounds wrong to me.

some numbers here, mostly US --- http://stuff.tv/news/By-numbers-Android-vs-iPhone/14488/

1 in 5 – ratio of new smartphones sold on contract in the UK that use Android, according to GfK.

Yeah, but

51 million – iPhones sold worldwide since Apple launched the device in 2007. Android has only been around since October 2008, but sales figures published in February 2010 claim almost 8.5 million Android phones had been sold up to that point.

Uh what's the point of the argument either way? Unless someone buys stet an android phone.

:(
I searched for "zing lite android" and thought i was in luck.

Ha ha.

one thing ive been experiencing recently -- ON IPHONE 4.0, zing will occasionally quit as soon as i've clicked on site new answers. anyone else get this?

got that yesterday but it happened like once

never had that. stet are you planning on a search function?

I am, but not for the next version. I've got a new version almost ready to send to you and the other testers with multitasking, starting new threads and a tonne of other fixes almost ready to go, probably tomorrow.

Search is harder because it will take a load of server-side stuff as well.

bring it on

hi stet, i use zing just about everyday, thanks again for developing and releasing it.

a few quick suggestions that might be useful for the next update (if you're planning on updating, that is)

- when posting a new message, it would be nice if the trashcan icon could be moved farther away from the keypad. several times i've been feverishly typing out a message, a paragraph or two deep, and then I accidentally miss a letter and trash the whole message.
- alternatively, maybe a warning message would suffice, e.g., "are you SURE you want to delete your message?"
- a remove bookmark function would be helpful.
- probably much much more difficult to implement, but a search function would be sweeeeet

You can remove bookmarks by swiping left.

The Close button is too close to the editing area--I hit it constantly when I'm trying to paste stuff into the start of the message. Perhaps it should be moved to the bottom toolbar? Also, when is the new version coming out?

You can remove bookmarks by swiping left.

whoa, i never knew that! thanks!

wait where do I swipe left? nothings happening.

oic on main menu, not in thread

Oh, well, while this thread's been bumped, I've been meaning to note to stet that I get crashes nearly every time I vote in a poll or delete a bookmark. On a 3G, if that helps.

how are you voting in polls

the most recent version allows you too! Top of a poll is like "20 poll options", click through that, then select an option and there's a "vote" button. Then Zing crashes :(

how do i get most recent version? Won't it appear in Updates in app store?

well this most recent update was, like, quite awhile ago?

a search function would be quite nice :-)

i mean, like a "find on page" function

freaky -- I sent the new version to Apple last night. Includes multitasking and a ton of bug fixes, including for the poll crash (in the meantime Clay you can probably fix that by deleting and reinstalling).

Other things:
- Delete button: yeh, will add a warning to that
- Close button: that needs to be there for UI guideline reasons, sry.
- Search in page: Yeah, I really want this too, it's next.

hey stet zing is great but it can be pretty crashy - usually after i update a bookmark (or post) and go back to the browsing screen

that doesn't sound right. can you email me your crash logs and I'll take a look?

no stability issues here - I'd have comments on the Mac app and on how much I'd like to see an iPad app, but the iphone version works great for me

mine is a bit crashy (on xposts, sometimes on opening threads) but totally liveable-with, i still love using it.

it never crashes for me. still would LOVE to be able to select which boards show threads in site new answers.

Dudes I still can't figure out how to do polls. Is it only on Zing Touch and not on Zing Lite?

sunny, i think you can do that? i appear to have done that, anyway - i think by swiping right on the boards you don't want, on the opening-screen list of boards, you can delete them from your sna as well as from the list of boards that show on the opening screen?

(i would test this but i don't know how to bring a board back once deleted)

I can't swipe right OR left on any screen!

do you have an edit button?

Stevie, if you swipe left (OR right, IME) on the bookmark, a red button that says "DELETE" should appear.

sunny, i think you can do that? i appear to have done that, anyway - i think by swiping right on the boards you don't want, on the opening-screen list of boards, you can delete them from your sna as well as from the list of boards that show on the opening screen?

(i would test this but i don't know how to bring a board back once deleted)

― camphor jars (c sharp major), Monday, September 20, 2010 11:53 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark
WOAH ill try this. thanks!

and if you hit 'login' on the settings page it resets to all-the-boards

as i just discovered

Where's the edit button? I have a gear in the lower right corner. Oh yes I can swipe on the bookmark but I don't want to delete any of them.

I just want to view polls. Maybe vote too.

edit button is top right for me (but it won't help w anything but deleting boards/bookmarks you don't want).

stevie, when you go to a poll thread, does nothing happen when you tap the top post that says 'x poll options'? do other posts open when you tap them (like e.g. posts w images in)?

When I tap the OP it just lists the OP w/ no poll options. Images come up and all though when they're there

this is how it works for me:
click the thread with the poll.
the first "message" should say something like "3 poll options". click it.
the next screen will list the poll options. click the one you want to select.

click = touch obv

oh sorry c sharp. beat me to it.

huh. maybe it is a touch-v-lite thing?

sweet damn, c sharp. i was able to get rid of those boards. not an i love music post in sight. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried what you said to do, sunny, and the options do not show up for me. I always figured that polls were not part of Zing Touch.

oh I never see x poll options or anything. I am running 1.0 Lite btw

fuck i want DUMPLINGS!

also wtf why did DUMPLINGS! just capitalize itself

just buy the full version dudes

oh no i have further contributed to the depopulation of ilm!!

looking upthread the same update that lets ppl take boards out of SNA (not just off the opening screen) is the update that allows ppl to view and vote in polls so if you can do one you should be able to do t'other? maybe lite never got that update?

I thought I bought the full version....maybe not. I do not know.

DUMPLINGS!

why did you write DUMPLINGS!, Stevie D? DUMPLINGS! automatically becomes upper case and !

i wonder what this does DUMPLINGS!!

because your username is d u m p l i n g s and I got a mad craving

1.0 didn't have poll support -- you need to update! I think both lite and full should have polls now; they definitely do in the next release.

Is this the thread where we talk about the Bai Ling eats fetuses classic DUMPLINGS!?

yes

that doesn't sound right. can you email me your crash logs and I'll take a look?

― stet, Monday, September 20, 2010 9:57 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

how do i shot logs

def. dont have polls in lite and updating doesn't add them

hey stet zing is awesome

it crashes for me on occasion but no more than any other great app. obv, being able to start threads and use a search function would be great, but jumping over to safari for that isn't too hard.

my number one request/ complaint however is this:

-if you have a thread bookmarked on a message that is more than 100 posts from the end of the thread, zing will only take you to the last 100 posts, and not to your bookmarked post.

obv not a problem that comes up too much, but it would be nice to have fixed in an update.

New feature: improved clusterfuck thread management

Not really complaining, but one minor glitch: occasionally when I touch a thread, it just instantly closes down and I'm back on the iPhone home screen. As crashes go, it's not that inconvenient or frustrating (like a freeze-up or time-out would be).

i get that a lot

That's actually quite a hard one, Grady. Will have a think.

Crashes: If you sync with iTunes, you'll find crash logs in these folders:
Mac OS X : ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE_NAME>
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Apple computer\Logs\CrashReporter/<DEVICE_NAME>
Windows Vista: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple computer\Logs\CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE_NAME>

Look in that folder, find the ones with "Zing" in the title, and fire 'em off to stet @ ilxor and i'll take a look. Lots of them likely to be fixed in the latest update, though.

I'm...wondering...was there a problem with using a normal browser via the iphone or similar device? I never had a smart phone before now but this droid thing seems to do okay with ILX although it doesn't remember where I left off a long thread and return me to my exit point. But other than that, it seems v functional.

IIRC this whole thing came about because stet was messing around with Apple application development and made an ILX reader as a test application, which he then converted into an iPhone app

do you use bookmarks Laurel? Zing handles bookmarks much much better than the phone's browser ime - on the iphone anyway.

really like Zing btw stet - cheers for making it. Would second the comment about only being able to load up clusterfuck threads in groups of 100s. don't bother if it's too difficult for you tho - i'd much prefer access to the search functions if poss.

Don't use bookmarks, no. Never understood what they were for, basically. I am not tech-y like at all.

It's so that when yr fave threads get updated, you can 1)see that there are new posts (useful for when you haven't been ilx-ing for a while and a thread you're interested in has a new post or posts but is sunk beneath many other threads), and 2) takes you directly to where you left off in reading the thread

^

Basically, just go to your fave thread and bookmark the most recent message. Next time someone posts to that thread you'll see how it works. "try it you'll like it", etc

I didn't use bookmarks until Zing, but now I use them all the time. Dark theme rules.

I didn't use bookmarks until Zing, but now I use them all the time. Dark theme rules.

― schwantz, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:03 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark <--- Laurel: click this and see what happens

I'm...wondering...was there a problem with using a normal browser via the iphone or similar device? I never had a smart phone before now but this droid thing seems to do okay with ILX although it doesn't remember where I left off a long thread and return me to my exit point. But other than that, it seems v functional.

You can see the entire width of the page with Zing without having to use gestures.

That's actually quite a hard one, Grady. Will have a think.

I thought it might be. Again, it's not that big a deal, just the only design flaw in an otherwise great app imo

id also like to see an option where you can choose to have images load in the main thread screen. I guess it would be slow on 3G but might be okay on wifi?

On review, my phone doesn't handle SNA, it only shows one board at a time, I think, even though my log-in preferences are for lots of boards to show up.

Will Zing work on a droid?

images on the main thread screen was just unusably slow when I tried it out. It might be OK on an iPhone 4, but I'll look into it.

Laurel: No droid action, sorry. I think Ken C was looking into an Android version tho

zing is great –– and i'd echo sunny successor's rq for a 'photo on' option.

1.9's approved and should go live tonight! Changes:

NEW
Multitasking is enabled on supported devices, including remembering your place and faster startup. (iOS 4+)
You can now start new threads.
You can undo the button actions in compose windows, including the trashcan.

FIXES
A crash that could happen when deleting a bookmark has been fixed.
Now warn when trying to set bookmarks with old-style bookmarking set in settings.
Thread timestamps now update correctly
Better handling of a changed password.
Properly uses the serif font in the message detail view (thx Ben)
Fixes an issues where reordered boards weren't saved. (thx Ben
(Thanks also to sunny for lots of testing)

Also: I know Zing Lite's pretty neglected -- made some mistakes that mean updating it is harder than it should be -- so I've put Zing Touch on sale for $2 until I can sort it out. If you use it a lot it's probably worth it -- there's a ton of bug fixes and features in ZT.

You can now start new threads.

:-) And thanks for it all!

(Does that make the search function the next major thing on your plate?)

Yup, working on it right now!

You can undo the button actions in compose windows, including the trashcan.

alRIGHT! Thank you!

So psyched, thx stet!

Just sprung for the full version. I'm sure I won't regret it. Apart from the Twitter app, Zing Lite was easily my most used app.

Keep up the good work!

Bought. Cheers.

I find myself instinctively pulling down to refresh, ala twitter or Facebook. Can you steal that functionality?

Ha, I was thinking of the same thing the other day!

The other thing that crossed my mind -- the 'reconnect' feature is wonderful, but I notice it doesn't automatically refresh the page either. Might that be a possibility?

That pull-down thing is now a public library of some sort, innit?

It would be pull-up for Zing, wouldn't it? Will look at that. Have also done away with the reconnecting thing in next version, have better solution.

Looks like there are a few open implementations: http://blog.leahculver.com/2010/07/iphone-pull-to-refresh.html

Awesome, thanks.

hey stet--upgraded to ios 4.2 this weekend and zing is now telling me i can't bookmark because i have old style bookmarking enabled (which i mostly certainly do not). any ideas?

clear your cache? (logout and relogin)? reinstall? (sorry I'm not stet)

That flashed up for me but it went away again after a second. I agree with dayo, reinstall it.

I had some strange behavior with the update, but then I logged out and in and it went away.

geez you guys with your common sense.

j/k, that did it, thx!

I find myself instinctively pulling down to refresh, ala twitter or Facebook. Can you steal that functionality?

Alternatively, how about shake-to-refresh a la Echofon?

ew yuck

These are the things I would love to see (but am not demanding):

- control over font size
- ability to re-add hidden borads

I'd love to adjust font sizes as well. Not a fan of shaking to do anything because I end up doing this by accident way too often.

Ditto.

SNA page is where the fonts are badliest in their bigness. Not a fan of the whole tram seeing 49 reasons she thinks he's gay (although I could always just use the normal ilx site so)

Shaking sucks

Pie in the sky feature request: instapaper support

Wondering if you have any inclination to make an iPad-sized version of this? Probably an unnecessary pain but I would definitely download it.

My requests:

1. Search
2. A way to see my bookmarks even if they haven't updated.
3. (and this is way pie-in-the-sky) Server-side image resizer that would allow viewing of picture threads on iPhone.

1. Search
2. A way to see my bookmarks even if they haven't updated.

Those would be cool.

2 would be great but I'm conscious of the fact that it's not meant to do everything ilx does.

Yes. My standard disclaimer that applies to all requests is "...but I love it the way it is, thanks!"

Ha yeah, it is a great app.

been using zing lite for a while now and finally sprang for the paid version. thanks for putting so much work into this, i used the free version all the time.

^ditto. So glad I made the jump; this is easily one of my top 5 most used iPhone appz.

Thanks guys!
Search: coming.
Font size: Yes, this is good idea.
Read bookmarks: Hard to do, probably not.
Picture threads: still thinking about this.
RE-add hidden boards: Quickest way is just to log in again, that restores them all.

iPad version?

Oh yeah, missed that one. Is it something a lot of people are interested in? Haven't felt the need yet, really.

RE-add hidden boards: Quickest way is just to log in again, that restores them all.

― stet, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 02:48 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You just reminded me of the other change I would like to see.

Also, with the screen space required for fingers some of this stuff is probably ridiculous. I imagine you could only get the text size down so far before the elements are too small to select.

can you add support for 3D printers?

kinect support too btw

ya look I paid hundreds of cents for this thing and I expect the cape to be holographic tvm

can I get a pony with the next version

shoots lasers to destroy my enemies or I'm OUT

tbh I would pay up to $5.99 for a Zing Touch: Gob Job Edition.

Finally ante'd up. Since I've been less active on ILX I waited. Now I see that Zing will bring me back. Damn you Stet!

Oh yeah, missed that one. Is it something a lot of people are interested in? Haven't felt the need yet, really.

I don't think an ipad version is necessary - it's got enough screen that web ILX runs just fine.

Web ilx does work fine but something a la Reeder for ilx would be fantastic

iPad app would be preferable to the web version.

Part of what makes ilx ilx is the fact that it's simple and functionally bare. Zing is good because it does what it needs to do. As baader said the std we site is fine on an iPad, but it's always been tricky on an iPhone screen.

'we site'?

Having spunked a UI lecture on you lot I would now like to request a feature. When viewing bookmarks and threads, display the name of the forum to which the threads belong. Ta.

bought this for the iPhone a while back. can I also download it to my iPad? every time I try, it looks as if I will have to rebuy it. not sure if this is the case or if apple's store is just goofed up. please help. urgent.

sometimes it looks like that, but then u do it and it says 'oh wait u dont have to pay' after u click ok

There's no + sign next to the price i.e. it's not listed as a universal app so yeah, will probably charge you twice. stet?

btw weird to note I made it to an app store screenshot and am therefore famous.

It won't charge you twice, if you have the iPad assigned to the same iTunes account. Alternately just hook the iPad up to iTunes and sync the app that way.

I think ILX is fine on safari on the iPad

No 'droid. :(

'no droid' is the new 'where's the linux version'

Cannot view on Apple IIe >:(

working fine on my vic-20

B-)

here's no + sign next to the price i.e. it's not listed as a universal app so yeah, will probably charge you twice. stet?

No, that just means there isn't any iPad code in the app -- if you download it you won't get charged again, but it just runs in the iPhone simulator.

I'll have a play with an iPad version later see what's what. I quite like the Tweetie interface now it's improved, but that smells like a ton of work.

Request: pinch/unpinch.

Ask a Jewish grandmother

oy vey

hey stet: I have an idea that might work for everyone asking for a way to load image threads.

you know how in zing you can tap on each individual post to see it on it's own? what if that view had forward and back arrows so I could just tap through to the next image in an image thread, instead of going back to the thread, tapping on the next image post, letting that load, etc.

?

what about an android versh...

~kills self~

that is v good idea xp

Zing isn't letting me post at this point -- ever since the upgrade, I think. I can read everything okay, but each attempt to post on a thread gives me the 'it is a mystery' dialogue box.

Maybe zing has become self-aware and is trying to eliminate it's closest rival

Ned you probably got banned. :-(

Alack.

Maybe zing has become self-aware and is trying to eliminate it's closest rival

A losing cause:

http://i.imgur.com/Paj3y.jpg

O_O

omg

You can thank joygoat for that, BTW.

Cache problem ned: log in again. If the change doesn't stick, just reinstall from app store (you won't be charged again) and it should do it this time.

Q: did you change your password recently? I know there are bugs in that.

if so what did you change it to (important)

Yoyodyne, obv.

Anyway that post was from Zing and worked just fine so problem solved. Now to find to Sarah Connor etc.

welcome back, Ned.

I...I was so long away. It's a different world to me now. I'm lost and confused.

I don't believe people that claim to be from the future unless they're naked and hanging out in a bar

so what's the problem

just bought the iPhone version; thanks for dropping the price into the impulse-buy zone (and for all yr hard work on this project too I guess)! would love universal support but I can understand if it's not a priority (although I am heartened by your enthusiasm for the Tweetie interface upthread).

bought the full app: YES! thank you!

Preventing posting of duplicate messages would be a nice addition sometime (or I could develop some self-control and patience and not hit the Post button over and over if it takes more than a moment to post...)

Doesn't the post button grey out for you once it's been hit?

zing touch has been very wonky for me lately. huge long pauses in posting, a couple weird error messages (one that goes by so fast i can't remember it, something about "new style" of messages?), frequently URLs won't open either

It does grey out. But besides my frantic, impatient repeated pushing the Post button, there was at least one inexplicable triple post, perhaps due to a twitchy thumb.

That error message about the old-style bookmarks comes up when the connection drops out. I suspect the error text is just wrong.

zing touch has been very wonky for me lately. huge long pauses in posting, a couple weird error messages (one that goes by so fast i can't remember it, something about "new style" of messages?), frequently URLs won't open either

I see this too and am on it. I haven't changed in anything in the relevant bits, so I'm guessing it's iOS 4.2. That bookmark error is actually supposed to be a suggestion -- the idea is that it comes up when bookmarking fails and suggests you might try double-checking the setting in preferences, but there wasn't enough space to make it clear. Am rewriting all that code just now anyway for increased betterness.

(I also see the huge long pauses in posting in Chrome on ILX sometimes too. Wonder if they're related. (I use Google networking code)).

weird - chrome working fine for me

Am rewriting all that code just now anyway for increased betterness.

Too long on ILx: I read that as "increased bitterness" :/

This happens when you quote a message that contains a picture:

The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

Image goes missing, author is embarrassed, undergoes years of psychotherapy, ultimately dies alone in a shack atop a cold windy mountain.

Oops, sry

<3

I have more if you're interested.

Aye, totally

- would love to be able to resize images in posts
- would love the borad name to be visible somewhere when viewing a thread

- would love to be able to resize images in posts

you mean like zoom in/out? me too.

Oh yeah I fin myself always trying to zoom images

yep

this is for WS, isn't it

for rip nsfws

ok, done.

downloaded it last week, love its logic. suggestion - instantly to the top of the page by tapping the top bar? (like in safari?) i like to read the openingpost and it would be handy for polls as well...

i think it does that already? i think all scrolling iphone apps do automatically...

oh. i tried but it hasn't done that.

definitely works for me! have to hit the very top, with the signal/time/battery indicators.

ok, done.

As in implemented or set to be changed? (not able to zoom pics ATM)

The scroll to top thing is working for me

*oops* it does work
easier in landscape. still getting used to touchscreen handling. thanks! :)

Done as in will be in next release.

- would like to buy stet one (1) pint

Is anyone else having a problem with missing text? I'll use it for a couple of days and then threads will load with text missing all over the place.

These things fix it:

- clearing memory using System Activity Monitor app
- closing a load of open apps
- rebooting phone

It happens in Tapatalk as well (link here, scroll down to CptanPanic's post) so I assume it's an iOS library issue.

oh and I don't think Tapatalk has fixed it yet.

Just me then? Hokay.

For some reason i am only able to view my bookmarks and not the various boards/site new answers. Maybe just a reinstall will fix.

weird question-

on ios4-- anyway to make it so that when viewing a youtube in zing's safari mode you can multitask/ have youtube audio playing in the background?

i'm having the same issue as blank. and i don't even have any bookmarks right now, so i don't see anything when i load zing touch (or zing lite for that matter). it is sad.
i also can't seem to set bookmarks in regular ol ilx either atm, if that has anything to do with anything...

same issue happening for me too.

Mine has been working perfectly, but a friend told me she has been unable to post for a few days. She can read threads, just not post.

ok set some bookmarks and they show up in zing just fine but that's it. weird.

Yep I get a blank screen too, and "no new bookmarks". It was ok a few days ago. Having to use safari ugh. I should just get out of bed and use my PC lol

Oh and I'm on a tooch with v 3.something

yea same for me; can load updated bookmarks but can't view boards. reinstall didn't fix.

i remember i had some non synching issue a while back and stet said it was because the iphone was capitalizing the first letter of my email. so uncapitalize and see if it works out? worked for me.

I am having the same issues as blank and rrrobyn.

same as blank and robyn here

I had those for about a week at the beginning of the month, then they went away again. Only happened on a 3G connection, never a wifi one.

Well Im on wifi and I'm P sure i wouldnt have capitalized my email but I'mma try logging out and back in now and see what that does.

yea same for me; can load updated bookmarks but can't view boards. reinstall didn't fix.

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, January 28, 2011 4:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

same for me, nothing has changed with my login and i have tried logging out and back in etc

:(

yea same for me; can load updated bookmarks but can't view boards.

Has anyone let stet know?

zing is totally empty for me. wanted to look something up from ilb at bnn today but couldn't :(

Hey up; just back from a trip away; am seeing exactly the same thing. Weird. Will check it out when I get home tonight.

Fixed it: the image in the ILNFL board description knackered the API.

Eyyy it's working now , ta stet :)

working -- thanks stet!

He fixed it on his phone at the airport = my hero <3

wowsers!
i dled an itunes update today and thought maybe that was the fix (itunes updates have wrecked/fixed certain apps before...). whatever teh reason, yaay :)

upgraded iPhone, dl a new copy of zing: broek. says I need to update bookmark prefs (??) and won't post

Bookmark prefs thing is a known bug. If not posting at all, you probably need to reinstall it, then log in again. Once you've logged in, keep using it for a few minutes to give it a chance to sync cookies etc. I know this is stupid, am working on it, sry.

stupid q: how do you reinstall?

hold your finger until it starts wiggling then click the X to delete it

then download it again from the app store (you wont get charged twice)

I always wondered about that with apps one already has.

oh yeah. i was doing it like once a week w/ the facebook app before i cause it was so crashy on ios3

before i upgraded to ios3

u get it

works now thx

Sure.

Note that if you just want to reboot an app, you can double click, which will make the icons show up on bottom row where you do the same trick to "delete" it.

Bookmarks but no New Answers situation has returned.

my app is constantly quitting on SNA refresh (ON IPHONE)

New Answers fixed. Still seeing it Jeff?

so far so good! and I can post again too

(also, sorry if my first post sounds bratty. not how i intended it.)

Wait, now that jeff's is fixed, mine is broke. The time vortex is self correcting.

REQUEST: Send an alert whenever Captain Lorax posts

ipad version

or just a 158x158 favicon for ipad on the main site

best style.CSS for iPad?

I use blueski-2.css

I want the ability to save threads for offline reading. Yes, I know about Instapaper, and I know that Zing will keep the last threads you've read in memory, but I'd like to not have to use an outside program or worry about a crash/greedy memory hog/whatever wiping them out before I can get to them.

Zing keeps threads in the memory?

gr8!

Yep, at least for a little while, until something else overwrites that part of memory.

Any updates planned for Zing? A Bookmarks page (where I could see un-updated bookmarked threads) would be nice...

Android version?

^ this

Was working on offline on holiday in the land without data. Version I have loads all your unread bookmarks and saves them for offline. (Saving a thread for offline then is just a matter of bookmarking an older post)

Also coming is multi-account and site support, sandboxers rejoice, a custom home screen with just starred boards, full-size pics, ad some other bits and bobs.

iPad version I started to play with, but it'll be tons of work. If someone wants to make a larger site icon I'll put it up tho.

cooo, this sounds like it'll be excellent. hope you've been having fun with it.

:-)

ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER

zing touch is a lifesaver

iPad app please

every time this thread is bumped i am delighted by the word "tooches"
not just tooch, but tooches

yo stet i have noticed lately that when clicking the safari logo in a post launches the WHOLE THREAD in safari, when iirc it used to load the permalink of the post you were coming from?

Thought you couldn't really launch Safari from other apps these days. Although maybe it prompts you and asks Do You Really Want To Open Safari?, I never tried in Zing Tooches.

I launch Safari from other apps all the time!

yo stet i have noticed lately that when clicking the safari logo in a post launches the WHOLE THREAD in safari, when iirc it used to load the permalink of the post you were coming from?

I haven't changed anything my end; I wonder if Safari has changed. You do have to be logged in on ILX in Safari before it'll work, though -- the auto-login strips the message. And it only works with pint Zing; Zing Lite just opens the thread.

hmmm maybe I just wasn't logged in, cause I'm on pint zing

<3 pint zing

Wait, what? What is pint zing? I have Zing Touch.

Had the same question. Is it like a left-handed smokeshifter?

Pint zing is red, and I buy a pint (or a Crunchie) when a copy gets sold. I also add you to my list of heroes. Lite Zing is blue and free.

Oh. In that case, I am a proud and pleased owner of Zing Pint, but I did not know it was called that.

hmmm ok i just tried again-- def login in to ILX on safari, and it just took me to the whole thread, not the permalink i was coming from. seems really intermittent, cant figure out why its working in some instances and not in others.

not really a big deal, just figured it was something you'd want to know that was happening.

Weird. I'll take a look and see if I can see what's up

def noticed it occurring in only the last 2 weeks or so

It is happening to me, too.

Something weird is happening. Zing Touch won't allow me to read the gay thread. It just won't open - the little spinning wheel stops, but on the bottom it gets stuck on "Loading" but no messages load. All other threads open fine, and the error happens under all circumstances I've tested: 3G, wifi, many and few unread messages.

I'm updating to iOS5 now, so maybe that will take care of the problem.

that happened to me w/ my original anime convention thread

Yeah, it had a weird character iirc. Zing is delicate.

The GOP presidential candidates thread has been doing that for me as well on Zing. Odd.

I really think you should stop reading the GOP presidential candidates thread then.

And Je%%se, you're not gay anymore.

yeah I've had that same issue with the GOP candidate thread and i think the "david foster wallace: classic or dud" thread as well.

Disco Inferno lyrics thread for me.