Twitulater alpha1 sneak peak
Wow! A month is such a short period of time when you've got too much work on your hands. Ever since the last release way back in middle March there have been no news, barely even a peep from Twitulater, but I am glad to inform you that things are happening and development is still gong strong.
It is for this particular reason that I have decided to give everyone a little sneak peek into the next version of Twitulater, which will be named alpha1. To be honest I'm not certain whether this is an alpha version in the classical versioning scheme, but it felt fitting - perhaps I just got bored with having only numbers. Mostly I felt the previous versioning simply wasn't fitting anymore due to some fundamental changes in the way Twitulater works.
The biggest such change is moving everything to a plugin based system, which means you are no longer tied to any service. You can even turn plugins on and off and a distribution system will be developed so you'll be able to download and install plugins right from the application and thus get new functionality without having to upgrade the whole app. Then there's the redundancy system, when shortening an error occurs while shortening an URL or uploading a file Twitulater will jumpt to the next available plugin and give that one a shot - this gives you the best possible chance of getting things done without fuss.
Another big improvement are conversation threads (seen in the screenshot), which means you can finally see the whole conversation stream leading up to a tweet without having to click "in reply to" a gazillion bloody times. Personally I know I've been aching for something like this for months now.
There is also an ... let's call it an easter egg ... feature that's only a few hours old right now. If you use the pre-release version for a while you'll be sure to find it. If not, just wait for the real release when it's ready.
Have fun until next time, hope you're still out there listening.
PS: since my main testing computer is recovering from a broken graphics card, the poor creature, this pre-release isn't very, uhm, stable. At least it wasn't on linux and I'm not certain why since running it during development worked fine.
PPS: I've also updated the Twitulater website a little bit so you can see the rantings and ravings I do while testing and credit has been given to some good people who have contributed their suggestions or just shared what they hated about other clients.
