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epc replied on October 31, 2009 16:58 to the question "How to mark a venue as temporarily closed?" in foursquare:

Sounds good, I just didn't want to do it and screw up the reopening.

epc asked a question in foursquare on October 31, 2009 14:21:

How to mark a venue as temporarily closed?

Hecho en DUMBO (http://foursquare.com/venue/38785) will be closing tonight for ~2 months. When it reopens it will be in a different location. If it's "closed" in foursquare, can it be reopened when it reopens in January? Or should that be a new venue? (They're moving from DUMBO to the Bowery).

epc reported a problem in foursquare on October 26, 2009 17:15:

When viewing a friend, show their checkins wherever they are

Viewing "friend" in another city only shows check–ins in *your* city unless you switch to their city.

That is, I'm in NYC. My friend is in London. She's checked into multiple locations in London but they don't appear when I view her page (http://foursquare.com/user/kamml). I can only see her checkins in London if I switch my city to London, which seems silly. I understand not sending me notifications when she's in another city, but if I'm looking at her user page it should show me her current info, regardless of whether we're in the same city or not.

epc replied on September 27, 2009 18:09 to the problem "SMS checkins not registering" in foursquare:

I haven't been able to check in via SMS at all (pre or post Perfect Storm). Am on AT&T.

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epc replied on September 05, 2009 01:34 to the problem "Adding tags to venue results in ugly SQL error" in foursquare:

If it helps, I was able to update the address info for the entry, just not the tags.

epc reported a problem in foursquare on September 05, 2009 01:33:

Adding tags to venue results in ugly SQL error

When adding tags to venue 108160 (Roscoe Diner, http://foursquare.com/venue/108160 ), I got this error:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "SET" LINE 1: INSERT INTO venue_tags SET tag_id = '529', venueid = '108160... ^

epc shared an idea in Path 101 on March 30, 2009 22:33:

Set errors-to header in notification email

In the notification emails you send from the path101 gmail account, consider adding an Errors-to: path101-errors@gmail.com header to the RFC822 header.

Also might consider some mild branding to the email, even just basic HTML coloring / no graphics.

epc shared an idea in Path 101 on March 25, 2009 15:00:

Add a registration option to the Quiz Results page

When someone who isn't logged in views a quiz results page they get "Compare to Ed" and a call to action to take the quiz. Why not add a registration / login panel right there in the right hand column (where today it reads "Take the quiz and register to compare your quiz results to your friends!") and capture the person right there so that on filling that panel out they immediately go to their own quiz.

Right now you take the quiz and opt for a registration either at the end of the quiz or if you opt to save for later. I wonder how many people you're losing because of this (once they've registered they've bought in, until they do though they haven't).

epc reported a problem in Path 101 on March 25, 2009 14:53:

"Back to your results" should only appear if you’re logged in.

I checked out my results as they'd appear to someone who doesn't have an account or isn't logged in if they do. I'd remove the link " Back to your results" which appears at the top of the quiz results, since clicking that just leads to a login screen. Alternately, change the login screen to be a split login / register screen.

epc shared an idea in Path 101 on March 25, 2009 14:11:

Display raw link to results in share results panel

In the share your results panel on a quiz result page also display the raw link.
I see you provide this in "Compare with Others" but suggest adding it to the box where the facebook/email/twitter sharing is touted.

A comment on the problem "Why is full birthdate mandatory?" in Path 101:

I think the last bit of COPPA was ruled unconstitutional. Which law are you referring to? Generally you only need to confirm that an individual is over 13 (or 18 depending on the content) in the US, not their specific birth date. – epc, on March 25, 2009 14:09

epc replied on March 07, 2009 18:35 to the problem "Feedback "bug" overlaps portion of content on Advice page" in Path 101:

I think this is a formatting thing, doesn't appear quite as bad in Opera (saw this first in FIrefox/Win XP)

epc reported a problem in Path 101 on March 07, 2009 18:32:

Feedback "bug" overlaps portion of content on Advice page

The "bug" for feedback on the left hand side of the page slightly overlaps content on the Advice page (I think the header "By topic" and the first 3-5 list items).

"Advice" seems subtly wider than the other pages so maybe it's a fault of the CSS for that page?

epc reported a problem in Path 101 on March 07, 2009 18:28:

Share Quiz Results -- Using <style> in a <div> is not generally supported

Two comments on the share-a-quiz page (for mine it's http://www.path101.com/quizzes/share/...)

- initially I thought the HTML in the textarea was an error. Maybe add a header above it for idiots like me saying something like "Cut and paste this HTML to your personal site"?
- <style> elements are generally not supported outside <head> elements. They may work now, but not in the future. If possible can you apply the styles inline to the HTML using <element style="font-size:x,color:y">?

epc shared an idea in Path 101 on March 07, 2009 18:21:

Provide more feedback on reset password page

Two things on reset password:
- provide more feedback if I enter an unregistered email address. Currently page just appears to reload
- allow resetting password by entering user name

Minor additional thing: the way it's set up now, if I know someone's registered email address I can force their password to be reset. That is, it appears you reset a person's password without confirmation. May want to switch to a model where you send a "reset password link" to the registered email address, with the link expiring in X hours (at least one, no more than 3 or 4). That way if someone is screwing around and hassling people they can't just force the account to get reset.

epc shared an idea in Path 101 on March 07, 2009 18:15:

Allow non-alphanumeric characters in passwords

Allow more characters beyond A-Za-z0-09 like @, !, etc. Assuming you're hashing it behind the scenes and you never really need to know what the string is other than that the hash matches, maybe open it up to all printable characters 0x21-0x7e? (I think 0x20 and 0x7f are unprintable, spaces, etc.)

epc replied on February 14, 2009 20:11 to the question "I Can't Log In and I'm Not Getting the PW Reset Email" in Twitter:

I had a similar problem with a client account. I finally gave up and created a new account.

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