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curiousstranger asked a question in PostRank on April 15, 2009 02:58:

Feed page doesn't indicate subscribed status

If I browse to an individual feeds page, (e.g. http://www.postrank.com/feed/...) there is no indication as to whether I already have a subscription to that feed. This has caused me, more than once in only a few days, to end up with duplicate subscriptions. The same behavior occurs in topic lists other than my own. Is there a reason for this behavior?

curiousstranger replied on April 14, 2009 21:38 to the question "Uploads stalling" in PostRank:

Note that this same problem exists on the Topic pages. Looking at a list of topics (other than my own topic lists) I can't tell if I have a subscription to a feed.

curiousstranger replied on April 14, 2009 21:33 to the question "Uploads stalling" in PostRank:

The infamous getsatisfaction topic title bug strikes again. For some reason, it likes to substitute old topic titles (from other companies getsatisfaction pages even!) occasionally. I am not having problems with Uploads stalling. I am, however, unsatisfied with GetSatisfaction.

curiousstranger asked a question in PostRank on April 14, 2009 21:31:

Uploads stalling

If I browse to an individual feeds page, (e.g. http://www.postrank.com/feed/...) there is no indication as to whether I already have a subscription to that feed. This has caused me, more than once in only a few days, to end up with duplicate subscriptions. Is there a reason for this behavior?

curiousstranger marked one of Ilya Grigorik's replies in PostRank as useful. Ilya Grigorik replied to the question "Can't log into aiderss.com, can log into postrank.com".

curiousstranger replied on April 11, 2009 17:34 to the question "Can't log into aiderss.com, can log into postrank.com" in PostRank:

Actually, it might not be a cookie issue, looking at a packet trace of the attempt to submit a new subscription with the extension, I see it POST'ing some data to /myfeeds/subscriptions.js and getting a 404 in reponse.

curiousstranger replied on April 11, 2009 17:12 to the question "Can't log into aiderss.com, can log into postrank.com" in PostRank:

Are there plans to merge postrank.com and aiderss.com? The authentication c ookies don't appear to be sticking around for very long and the firefox extension doesn't appear to re-prompt for authentication, requiring me to manually go to aiderss.com and login in order to add subscriptions with the extension.

curiousstranger asked a question in PostRank on April 08, 2009 01:39:

Can't log into aiderss.com, can log into postrank.com

I appear to be unable to login through aiderss.com, but can through postrank.com. The problem is that the Firefox extension is generating URL's in aiderss.com for adding new subscriptions, and as I can't log in, I can't add new subscriptions. Any ideas? My login is aiderss@curiousstranger.org

curiousstranger replied on April 08, 2009 01:10 to the problem "Postrank Firefox extension 1.0.3 installed but not recognized" in PostRank:

I found the Perspectives extension (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/f...) interferes with the Postrank extension in this exact way. Disabling it allows me to log in and authorize the application.

curiousstranger replied on March 16, 2009 00:07 to the idea "Uploads stalling" in Ping.fm:

It would be even nicer if I could edit the title to replace it what it was originally titled, before Get Satisfaction decided it would be better to use a previous title on a completely different topic.

curiousstranger replied on March 16, 2009 00:05 to the idea "Uploads stalling" in Ping.fm:

Hmm. It would also be helpful if Get Satisfaction wouldn't replace my post's title with that of a previous post.

curiousstranger shared an idea in Ping.fm on March 16, 2009 00:04:

Uploads stalling

Being able to see a list of our shortened URL's, and perhaps some metrics around them would be extremely handy.

curiousstranger replied on September 30, 2008 03:08 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

I've given up any hope of Flickr ever resolving their upload issues. Rather than throw out the money I've spent on Flickr and FlickrExport, I thought I'd make a request. Would it be possible to change the upload process so that local flickr metadata is filled out after each picture is successfully uploaded? Currently, it waits until the entire batch is uploaded to write the local metadata and because a batch is just about never successful, the metadata is never written. The only way I can successfully get the local metadata saved is to run FlickrExport for each individual picture.

This is the only hope for keeping Flickr and therefore FlickrExport useful to me.

curiousstranger replied on September 02, 2008 06:27 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

This is fascinating: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-u...

A staff member "greased the queues" an hour or two ago, and I can now upload faster than ever with FlickrExport. Unfortunately, they seem to have a very limited amount of grease and only apply it when the screaming reaches a certain level. This is again looking to be a Flickr issue, although one I would hope you are concerned about, as it clearly impacts the usefulness of your software!

curiousstranger replied on September 01, 2008 05:53 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

I've discovered another interesting item. FlickrExport is uploading the files to www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com, which is resolving to an IP in the 68.142.192.0/18 subnet. When I look at Flickr's own standalone Uploadr, it is uploading to a different server (up.flickr.com, for me resolving to an IP in Yahoo's 209.191.64.0/18 subnet) after check in with the API in the 68.142.192.0/18 subnet. The flash uploader at http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/ behaves the same way. I have much fewer problems with Flickr's own tools. Is the method used by Uploadr available to FlickrExport?

curiousstranger replied on September 01, 2008 05:34 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

Incidentally, 3.0 won't let me cancel the export when the uploads start timing out. I have to force quit aperture to get out.

curiousstranger replied on August 30, 2008 15:47 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

3.0 shows the same problem. I'm now in the process of Migrating to SmugMug, so it may all be moot. I'd *love* to see a SmugMugExport from you, since the Aperture plugins available are very barebones.

curiousstranger replied on August 30, 2008 05:15 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

Any luck making progress on this? I've submitted the trace to Flickr support as well but have heard nothing back. I'm pretty close to having to move to SmugMug as I really don't have the time it takes to upload any significant number of images, not to mention the metadata syncing I have to do to get the Flickr ID's back in the Aperture database. Can I make a suggestion while we're on the subject? Syncing the Flickr information back to each picture as it is uploaded, would at least make this situation more tolerable. As it is, if a batch fails, none of the images - even those uploaded successfully - get tags added or Flickr metadata populated in Aperture.

curiousstranger started following the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite.

curiousstranger replied on August 23, 2008 03:41 to the question "Uploads stalling" in Connected Flow:

Sadly, this problem has still not resolved. Flickr's tools seem to be working better with only occasional failures, but I still can't upload more than 1 photo at a time with FlickrExport. I have packet captures of the problem if you are interested in seeing them.