Some planned maintenance

We are relocating our servers to a different coast (they craved the sunny environs of California!), and while they are on the big UPS truck we have moved the service to a temporary home.

Should have everything back to normal by morning, with another planned hiccup when the servers arrive and are ready for their tan.

Dave

New circle owner controls

By popular request I just pushed a new feature that allows owners to change the type of their circles from the edit page.

You can freely switch back and forth between "open", "normal" and "private" now at any time.

I'm gonna take a break on new development for thanksgiving week to hang out with my family but once I get back to work, expect some long needed changes to the widget to start to appear, like the ability to limit the number of posts to the X most recent, and new support for merging all of your circles into one place.

Have a nice holiday!

Yikes!

A recent change to fix a bug caused a much more annoying bug, that actually caused us to crash a few times in the last 2 evenings...I think I have it squished and things ought to be back to normal.

Email invites

By popular request we now have the ability to send invites to join your circles right to the email inbox of your friends.

When they sign up following the link in your invite email they will automatically be added to your circle, so you can see when they've joined.

Also I fixed a race condition that causes some circles to stop refreshing feeds after a while. Props to the unschooling circle for discovering this :)

Changes (more options and styles) are coming soon to the widgets, so keep an eye out on this blog for details!

Back to work!

I'm back to work now after a short break to deal with some family issues.

Expect more posts, and more features coming soon!

Thanks for your patience and support during my absence.

Off for a few

We've had a death in the family, and I won't be working for a little while as we attend to our family needs.

Nearcircle will still be up and running, and there should be no interruptions of service, but personal responses to mail will be slow till next week.

Thanks

Dave

Exisiting Circles And The New Directory

When I created the new directory, all the existing circles were left uncategorized.

I wanted to give all the circle owners an opportunity to pick where they'd like to see their circle show up in the directory.

But I also know that you all have better things to do with your time then play around on nearcircle, so in a few more days I'm going to help you all out and assign a category that I think fits to any circles that have yet to be categorized.

I'll do my best to pick one that fits, and you can always change it later if you disagree. (In fact the category for a circle can be changed at any time, instantly, from the edit circle page. So if you change your mind after you categorize it, its no biggie.)

I hope you all continue to enjoy nearcircle... as soon as I get over this flu... I'll be back to work on more of your requests!