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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Twitizer overhaul
I said I wouldn’t cover Twitizer here anymore, but considering how much has been done the last days (and nights) it might still be interesting to know about the changes. You can follow the enhancements in more detail on the Twitizer Blog.
The main goal for these later enhancements has been to make the content and the users more visible, not the least as teasers for potential users, but also to make the content more useful. If you saw the text-only Messages page and the pretty static home page, you probably get my drift. It’s also now possible to rate messages/content, and a bunch of other things.
I still haven’t added support for OAuth. I’m aware I need to do this to make authentication more safe for users.
The service also requires a better web host in the long term (and even the near term), as the current one has locked PHP memory to 10 Mbyte, which is not enough to scale and rotate pictures more than 3 Mpixels. Therefore the current limitation.
There are still tons of things that could and should be done, but the key thing is really to generate enough user volume to make it possible to add commercial services on top of the free ones. I’m very far from that volume yet.
