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.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Thursday, 23 September 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― I saw him in convulsive throws I said "I'll have one of those" (sunny successor), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― stet, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
zing is great –– and i'd echo sunny successor's rq for a 'photo on' option.
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Friday, 1 October 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
1.9's approved and should go live tonight! Changes:
NEWMultitasking 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.
FIXESA 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 correctlyBetter 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.
― stet, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
You can now start new threads.
:-) And thanks for it all!
(Does that make the search function the next major thing on your plate?)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup, working on it right now!
― stet, Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
You can undo the button actions in compose windows, including the trashcan.
alRIGHT! Thank you!
― T-Rex's erotic imagination (Z S), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
So psyched, thx stet!
― Clay, Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― ears are wounds, Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Bought. Cheers.
― groovypanda, Sunday, 14 November 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I find myself instinctively pulling down to refresh, ala twitter or Facebook. Can you steal that functionality?
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 November 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 November 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
That pull-down thing is now a public library of some sort, innit?
― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like there are a few open implementations: http://blog.leahculver.com/2010/07/iphone-pull-to-refresh.html
― shaane, Saturday, 20 November 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome, thanks.
― stet, Monday, 22 November 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
clear your cache? (logout and relogin)? reinstall? (sorry I'm not stet)
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
That flashed up for me but it went away again after a second. I agree with dayo, reinstall it.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I had some strange behavior with the update, but then I logged out and in and it went away.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
geez you guys with your common sense.
j/k, that did it, thx!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Alternatively, how about shake-to-refresh a la Echofon?
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ew yuck
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
These are the things I would love to see (but am not demanding):
- control over font size- ability to re-add hidden borads
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Ditto.
― i need to organize my zines (Jesse), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Shaking sucks
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Pie in the sky feature request: instapaper support
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Wondering if you have any inclination to make an iPad-sized version of this? Probably an unnecessary pain but I would definitely download it.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My requests:
1. Search2. 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.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Search2. A way to see my bookmarks even if they haven't updated.
Those would be cool.
― i need to organize my zines (Jesse), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
2 would be great but I'm conscious of the fact that it's not meant to do everything ilx does.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. My standard disclaimer that applies to all requests is "...but I love it the way it is, thanks!"
― i need to organize my zines (Jesse), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha yeah, it is a great app.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^ditto. So glad I made the jump; this is easily one of my top 5 most used iPhone appz.
― 〈font face="papyrus"〉live, laugh, love〈/font〉 (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
iPad version?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, missed that one. Is it something a lot of people are interested in? Haven't felt the need yet, really.
― stet, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
can you add support for 3D printers?
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
kinect support too btw
― markers, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ya look I paid hundreds of cents for this thing and I expect the cape to be holographic tvm
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
can I get a pony with the next version
― .\ /. (dayo), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
shoots lasers to destroy my enemies or I'm OUT
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I would pay up to $5.99 for a Zing Touch: Gob Job Edition.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link