Twitulater alpha1.1 knows who your friends are
tl;dr: download the new version of Twitulater
After a long weekend Twitulater alpha1.1 is complete and ready for everyone to enjoy. The previous weeks were spent elbow-deep in refactoring and reshaping and resculpting the core code behind some of the functionality, namely the way social graphs are created. This step was taken so that I am now able to proudly present Twitulater's most prominent new feature and one I'd been long looking forward to -
- lists of people!
This is something @friedcell complained about over a pint or two several months ago. He said that in most other clients when you want to follow someone and don't have a tweet handy there's nothing you can do. Well now you can. Twitulater remembers everybody whose tweets you've ever seen and makes a list of them at your disposal. It even organises the list by how much it believes you like them. But not only that, Twitulater also enables you to see who your friends are, who you're following who's not following back and viceversa. This is much similar to friendorfollow.com, except it's right there, whenever you need it, at the touch of a button.
Another big feature is support for different languages, namely Slovene and Pirate. I've decided to add support for Slovene after observing a debate unfold around this notion on Twitter and Pirate ... well that's because Pirates are cool and @sparkica reminded me it should be added. Perhaps in a next version I'll add support for ninja as well, but I think that'd just make everything into ----
In other news, there's also a new feature @alesh666 asked about, manual refresh. This is something I will never in my life understand the need for, refreshes are too frequent as it is, but alright, if you want it, you got it.
In other other news: many bugs have been fixed and I think special thanks is in order for @robertbasic who swamped me with a slew of easy to fix bugs on Saturday, bugs I'd never have discovered on my own. You're awesome dude.
Lastly, I do believe some bragging with statistics should be done because I didn't think they'd be so impressive. After having put up alpha1 for download a bit over a month ago there have been 54 downloads for Macs, 275 downloads for Linux (straight .air files) and ... wait for it ... 12569 downloads for Windows. Hmmm ... yay? A lovely little tid-bit is also that the nightly was downloaded 26 times, nice to see there's interest for that as well.
So anyway, the changelog:
- added list of seen users, friends, fans, followers, blocked
- added ability to follow and unfollow
- added ability to block and unblock
- added user profile display
- added multi-language interface
- added support for slovene and pirate language
- added refresh button
- fixed shorten URL interface wrong default service
- fixed drag∓drop issues
- fixed tweets showing up as tabs
- fixed showing too many tweets in conversations
- fixed problems with commands not loading quickly enough
- fixed some other less prominent bugs
- removed read delay at startup
- removed closing delay
- a whole lot of refactoring and behind the scenes improvements
PS: sorry @simonbelak for using your profile in a screenshot, but that avatar is just bloody awesome looking in that size
