Benjamin Golub’s blog

FF To Go has had a number of (minor) updates.  Here goes:

Fill the page – help the hiders

Some of you hide a lot.  I’m starting to hide more often too.  But FF To Go was still doing just one call to the FriendFeed API for entries.  If that one call resulted in mostly hidden entries then you’re left without much data on the page.  Now FF To Go will make up to 3 additional calls in an attempt to fill the page with how many entries per page you have set (in the settings page).

Hiding and deleting

You can now hide and delete entries.  Mobile hiding was the most requested feature for FF To Go.  Deleting might be useful for those who accidentally use the share form as a search form.

And a million and one bug fixes

Everything from fixing imaginary friends to tweaks to FriendFeed’s API HTTP status codes.

People have been asking for this feature to be added to FF To Go but I wasn’t really happy with any of the solutions I came up with.  Ideally there would be a call I could make to the FriendFeed API to get the body of a comment but that does not exist.  In the end I’ve settled on a compromise; you can only edit comments you’ve “recently” made (which is the common situation anyway).

Recent is a tricky term.  When you create a comment I store the body in memcache; I have no way of knowing how long it will stay there (it could get pushed out to make way for other data) but it’s definitely going to be long enough for you to realize a spelling mistake.

So have no fear of being ridiculed for your mobile spelling abilities!

Update: Now all comments are editable.