Release Notes: Goodies for Fans

Greetings Lingrers,

Here's the new stuff on Lingr.

Email notification for private message

If you use Lingr Radar or other equivalents, now you can receive email notification when someone sends a private message to your Radar, without the need to disclose your email address.

If you don't want the email notification, unsubscribing is easy - Just go to your account, and turn off the emailing option at the bottom.

For API developers: "A radar equivalent" means that client_type is set to "automaton" and the permission for API key is set as "observe-only".

Google Video supported

Finally. Recently I had a chance to realize that Google Video was a good fit to share my private movies in my family room.

For those who don't know about Google Video, it allows you to set an "Unlisted" option to a movie, which makes the movie publicly accessible, but only to the people who know the movie URL. That's exactly the same way as we do in unlisted chat rooms. I love it!

To post a movie in your chat room, you just paste the movie URL like http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8618166999532839788, and you see the movie as follows.

Enjoy posting movies using Google Video!

System message suppression - now optional

In the past release, we made a decision to suppress system messages such as "John has joined" or "John has left". On the one hand it's been going well, but on the other some of you didn't seem to like it.

That response drove us to reconsider, and this time we've changed it to an option per room.

Note that all join/leave messages are recorded at the backend, whichever option you take. All you do is to toggle whether you want to show them or not. So you can safely try out and switch between them, at any time.

Better timestamps

Now you would see message timestamps appear less frequently, having the date for ones not spoken today.

Other changes and fixes

• Private message from an observer now recognizes if the observer is signed-in
• Fixed sudden signed-in status invalidation
• Fixed duplicated "connection: close" header for API

We hope you like it!

- Kenn

Comments

[hjj]

happy!