Got Mac? Apple MobileMe & Mac Chrome support
We just pushed a lot of new code live… some highlights:
- support for Apple MobileMe (me.com/mac.com email addresses)
- support for Google’s just released Chrome 4 beta for the Mac
- a cleaner, less noisy design for small message view (it’s now @alexwolfe‘s view of choice)
- a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff to improve performance and stability (including faster email message close speed)
- robust batch of bug fixes (we’ll update our feedback forum with specifics)
Thanks for your feedback
Thanks to the nearly 1,000 people who filled out our survey last week. It’s a huge help to hear how you feel about threadsy so far. We’ll read through everything and use your feedback to help figure out our next steps.
Teaser: what’s in the pipe
Some stuff we’re planning on releasing next. Subject to change!
- Improved Facebook connection stability with a persistent, one-time log in
- Twitter search and saved searches
- Email folder/label support
latest update: faster, UI tweaks, and bug fixes
We just released an important update to threadsy which improves stability, performance, and usability.
Bug fixes
A long list. Many of them you reported in our feedback forum on GetSatisfaction, thanks for your help. We’ll update all of the related forum topics to let you know which issues we’ve fixed. Of note is significant improvement with the Facebook disconnecting threadsy issue, the top reported bug. Now if Facebook ever drops the threadsy connection, threadsy will try to automatically reconnect. In our testing we’ve seen this solves the issue most of the time. If it doesn’t auto reconnect, click this button at the top right to reconnect:
Speedier
We added some significant performance improvements to initial loading, opening email messages, and replying. We plan to continue improving performance going forward; we’re already working on our next batch of performance tweaks.
UI improvements
Based on some of your suggestions we rolled out a few changes:
- When you open an email message, the action icons are now always conveniently visible at the top.
- After you quick reply to an email or @mention to a tweet, the original message is now marked as read.
- When composing a new email message, your accounts in the ‘From’ dropdown now show the nickname of the account, not the username of the account. To change an account nickname, go to ‘settings’ and click ‘rename’ for the account you want to rename.
- Changes to the multi-action buttons in the top navigation: there’s now one button for both mark read and mark unread. The button changes depending on the status of the checked messages. We’ve also dimmed some action buttons when there are no checkboxes selected.
Please take our survey!
We need your feedback. Please help us by filling out our survey. Thanks for your help!
invite your friends (finally)!
Today we finally added an easy way for existing threadsy users to invite other people to threadsy.
You’ll now see an ‘invite friends’ link next to the Facebook post/tweet compose box at the top of the Unbound column. Just click the link and an invite code will pop into your compose box. From there, you can edit your message before posting to Facebook, Twitter, or both at the same time.
If you choose to invite people, thanks for spreading the word! If you’re not ready yet, please let us know what’s missing via our feedback forum so we can improve.
improved chat with support for AIM, Facebook Chat, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and others
threadsy aims to pull all of your online communications together into a simpler, more integrated experience. In line with this vision, we’re excited to announce integration with Meebo’s “Meebo Bar”. An improved chat experience and broad support for all major IM services have been some of the top requests we’ve had in our feedback forum, and we think the Meebo Bar is a big step forward.
The Meebo Bar lets threadsy users access all major chat services while using threadsy including:
- AIM
- Yahoo Messenger
- Facebook Chat
- MSN Messenger
- Myspace IM
- Google Talk
- and many others
The Meebo Bar now occupies the footer of the main threadsy messages view. It features visual and audial notifications whenever you receive new chat messages and allows multiple chat windows at the same time, features requested by several users. Each chat session will appear in a separate window over your message list.
To use the Meebo bar, you must sign up for meebo and add your chat accounts to it. Just click the bar and you’ll be prompted to sign up and add your chat accounts in the popup window. To add other types of chat accounts not listed in the popup, click the ‘pop out to meebo.com’ button and you can add them there under the ‘sign on to more accounts’ link. Once you’re set up, you’ll have quick access to all your chat services in one place.
Note that since the Meebo Bar supports Google Talk, we removed the top ‘chat’ tab.
OK, time to start chatting about those huge weekend plans…
email IMAP & Twitter Oauth support
Today we released 2 major enhancements that will help you pull yourself together with threadsy even more.
Additional email address support with IMAP
As of today, you can add any email address that supports IMAP to threadsy. IMAP is the standard protocol for reading your email online from any computer.
So in addition to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL, you can now check your school, work, and other email addresses directly in threadsy. If you don’t know if your email accounts support IMAP, check with your email provider.
How to add an IMAP account
If you’re an existing threadsy user, go to ‘settings’ and in the email accounts tab, type your full email address and password and click ‘add’.
threadsy will try to add your email address automatically, but if it fails to recognize it, you’ll see this:
Click ‘yes’ and then you’ll see the IMAP settings page. threadsy puts in some default settings for you to try. If these don’t work, you’ll need to type in the proper settings. Ask your email service provider for the right settings.
Twitter Oauth support
As many of you requested, today we added support for twitter’s recommended Oauth access. Oauth is twitter’s secure method of signing into your account that doesn’t require threadsy to store your twitter passwords. An added benefit is improved stability with threadsy – no more annoying login popups like some of you’ve experienced.
Switching to Twitter Oauth (existing users only)
All existing threadsy users will be required to reauthorize their Twitter accounts the next time they log in to threadsy. You must reauthorize each twitter account you previously added to threadsy. If you choose not to reauthorize an account, it will be removed from threadsy. You can always add it back in ‘settings’
Also: improved settings
New today, an extensive overhaul to the threadsy settings page to make it much easier to use. Now it’s divided into 3 sections: email accounts, social network accounts (Facebook and Twitter), and general. Note that we’ve moved the sound on/off control to the general tab.
We’ve also rolled out these changes to the sign up, so when you invite your friends to threadsy, it will be even easier for them to ‘pull themselves together.’ And yes, invite friends feature coming soon!
threadsy adds Calmail support in prep for Berkeley Tech Expo Nov 6
We’re excited to show off threadsy to UC Berkeley students at the annual Berkeley Tech Expo tomorrow. In preparation, we added support for Berkeley Calmail to threadsy (for standard @berkeley.edu addresses).
More details on the Expo here:
http://bta.berkeley.edu/techexpo/
On twitter @caltechexpo
manage your Inbound with small message view, filters, & stars
When all of your messages come together in one place using threadsy, it’s even more important to have easy ways to manage them. Today we just released a few key features that will help you keep your Inbound nice and tidy.
See more messages with small message view
We’ve added a whole new view for your Inbound messages so you can see over 2x as many Inbound messages on the screen at once. The new small message view is particularly useful on smaller screens to get a better sense of more messages at once.
The default view is the big message view. To switch to the small message view, click the new button in the top Inbound navigation. If you prefer the original big message view, you can switch back to it by clicking the other button. threadsy saves the view you last chose for each computer you use.
So… which view do you prefer? Any things that you would change? Please let us know!
New Inbound filters: unread & starred messages
Now you can quickly see just your unread or starred items across all of your email, Facebook, and Twitter accounts with the new filter dropdown in the Inbound navigation. It can be used in combination with the account filters as well.
Starring Inbound messages
Last but not least, now you can star any item in your threadsy Inbound with the star quick action.
threadsy will also star the item on external services when possible (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Twitter @mentions).
As always, any feedback you have on these new features would be much appreciated.
threadsy adds Twitter follow and Chrome support
Since our launch a few weeks ago we’ve received a steady stream of feedback via our Get Satisfaction page, twitter, and feedback@threadsy.com. Thanks a ton for that. Your feedback’s vital to us, and we’re listening! Right now we’re working on several top requested features and have been steadily fixing bugs you’ve reported.
Today we’re excited to announce the release of a few things you’ve requested.
Follow & unfollow Twitter users directly from threadsy
Now when you open a Person Card for someone who has one or more twitter accounts, you can follow or unfollow their twitter accounts right from threadsy. In the top “bio” section of the Person Card, you’ll see a new button under the Twitter account icons. Click it to follow or
Support for Google Chrome
We’ve fixed some nagging issues and now Chrome and threadsy should be friends. If you’re using Chrome and see anything go haywire, please let us know and we’ll fix it!
Facebook wallposts arrive in your Inbound
A few minutes ago (as scooped by Techcrunch!), we added the next key piece of the online communication puzzle to your threadsy Inbound: Facebook wallposts.
Now when someone posts on your Facebook wall or comments on your Facebook status, the posts and comments show up in your Inbound messages right in threadsy. We think these items are definitely ones you want to know about and are a natural fit for your Inbound.
Each Facebook wallpost in Inbound shows the original post, the number of comments, and the most recent comment. A new icon on the right of each item differentiates Facebook wallposts from Facebook messages.
Clicking the post to open it shows you the original post and the latest comments. You can add a comment or like the post right from threadsy, no need to go to Facebook. Also, if you want to see what’s going on with any person in the thread, you can click on that person’s profile pic or name to open their detailed Person Card on the right.
Every time your Facebook status or someone’s post on your wall receives a new comment, the item will move to the top of your Inbound. If you lose interest in a post, you can quick delete it and it won’t show up in your Inbound again even if it receives more comments. Note that quick deleting only deletes the item from threadsy, not Facebook.
As always, we look forward to seeing what you think.
introducing quick archive for Gmail messages
We’ve heard a lot of requests for a quicker way to archive Gmail messages in threadsy, so we just added it!
Now when you hover over any Gmail message in your Inbound message list, you’ll see a new icon for quick archive next to the quick reply and quick delete actions. With just one click, quick archive will archive the message both in threadsy and Gmail.
Note that you can also archive a Gmail message by opening it and clicking the archive button at the bottom of the message.
Other archive ideas – what do you think?
We’re considering adding a bulk archive action that you can use with the checkboxes to archive many messages at once. Would this be something that you’d use? Would you want to archive other things besides your Gmail messages, such as Yahoo messages or Twitter direct messages or @mentions?
Please leave your thoughts here in our feedback forum.
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