Confessh.us Blog http://confessh.us/blog con·fessh·us - a website to share your confessions. Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:11:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitter! http://confessh.us/blog/2010/11/27/twitter/ http://confessh.us/blog/2010/11/27/twitter/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:11:37 +0000 morganwestfield http://confessh.us/blog/?p=28 This past week we spent learning and coding in Twitter integration to the site. If you have a Twitter account you can now link it up to your Confessh.us account so that when you submit a confession it’ll also send a Tweet to your Twitter account. You can make the connection, by logging in and then visiting the profile edit page (http://confessh.us/editprofile).

Over the next 6 months or so we’re going to hopefully code in some AJAX-y features which hopefully reduce the amount of page loads as well as optimize the code in the backend of the site.

Until next time, Happy Holidays to all!

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As a birthday present to myself I’ve re-opened Confessh.us and we’ve rolled out a couple new updates!

  • Our blog is now running version 3.0 software.
  • Our forums are now running 1.0.2 software.
  • Notifications are now a new feature! You can get notified when someone comments on your confession, likes your confession and when someone comments on your profile. You can of course enable or disable these in your profile settings.
  • You can reset your profile image back to default via your profile settings page.
  • Uploading a new profile image will delete your old profile image from the server. What’s the sense in keeping old images around?!
  • You can find timestamps on both profile and confession comments.
  • Other various little bug fixes, verbiage, spelling, design tweaks were also made.

Of course the big one, Twitter integration is still a work in progress. We’ve got a lot to learn about with their API. I am hoping to have that stuff rolled out by the end of the winter, or Spring 2011. I know it seems like a long way off, but when you have no idea how it all works, it actually seems like there won’t be enough time!

Thank you everyone who checks out and uses this website. As always please report feedback and bugs to our support forums!

]]> http://confessh.us/blog/2010/08/22/notifications/feed/ 0 Confessh.us Updates http://confessh.us/blog/2010/07/21/confessh-us-updates/ http://confessh.us/blog/2010/07/21/confessh-us-updates/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:52:17 +0000 morganwestfield http://confessh.us/blog/?p=22 So it’s pretty much been about a full year since I’ve really worked on this. I’m spending the remainder of my summer on Confessh.us! I spent the first half working on another paid project however I would now like to set all my focus onto squishing bugs people have found as well as adding a couple new features to the site. Currently I’ve managed to close one ticket and am currently working on two of the tickets which I’ve been dreading the most, upgrading the blog and support forums. Since we have so much custom code hooked into both, I thought it would be a nightmare, but so far it hasn’t been to bad. I am really hoping by the end of October to have most of these support tickets closed and a bunch of new features added. Wish me luck!

~ morgan xoxoxo

]]> http://confessh.us/blog/2010/07/21/confessh-us-updates/feed/ 0 [EMERGENCY DOWNTIME] 7.10.2009 http://confessh.us/blog/2009/07/10/emergency-downtime-7102009/ http://confessh.us/blog/2009/07/10/emergency-downtime-7102009/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:37:26 +0000 morganwestfield http://confessh.us/blog/?p=19 We’ll be turning all servers and services off tomorrow at 9am EST. We’re experiencing some power issues and rather then get corrupted databases out of it, we’ll be turning them off while we look into the issue. All data has been backed up.

This outage could last anywhere from 6 to 12 hours.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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I’ve also edited the public profile page so that if you submit an anonymous confession, it won’t then show up in your public profile, I mean that pretty much defeats the purpose of anonymizing a comment, right?!

Also I must mention, thank you everyone! Thanks for checking out my new website and sharing your confessions. It’s so cool, so thanks a lot! Also thanks to people sending in bugs and such, it’s really appreciated!

xo

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We’re in a beta testing phase right now, so we’re still working on getting all the kinks out. We invite everyone to come and make an account and submit your deepest darkest confessions! Let your friends, family, co-workers, or anyone know about the site!

Thank you so much everyone!

xoxo

]]> http://confessh.us/blog/2009/04/10/blast-off/feed/ 0 An Update http://confessh.us/blog/2009/04/06/an-update/ http://confessh.us/blog/2009/04/06/an-update/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:52:09 +0000 morganwestfield http://confessh.us/blog/2009/04/06/an-update/ Here’s an update from your fearless leaders. LtDan and I have been working almost nonstop since our last blog posting. We redid the sessions and cookies and now we’re using a much more secure method. We’ve been writing hundreds of lines of code and the site is so very close being launched for beta testing.

The last bits of the site we have left to do are a public user page and tagging for the confessions. Then we’ll be ready to rock and roll! I’m very excited!

]]> http://confessh.us/blog/2009/04/06/an-update/feed/ 0 Hello people! http://confessh.us/blog/2009/03/29/hello-people/ http://confessh.us/blog/2009/03/29/hello-people/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:08:31 +0000 morganwestfield http://confessh.us/blog/?p=4 Welcome to the Confessh.us blog. We’ve been really hard at work trying to get everything ready on the site so people can come and help us test it! It sure has been a lot of learning and quite the journey that has really just begun!

Currently we have user registration working, user login, the main site has been integrated with our blogging and support forums software, the home page works (as in it snags the last 25 confessions from the database and displays them),

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