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
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!
― J, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think an ipad version is necessary - it's got enough screen that web ILX runs just fine.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Web ilx does work fine but something a la Reeder for ilx would be fantastic
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
iPad app would be preferable to the web version.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link