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swaldmanSo I've been working on Bug 4504 for some time, on and off. It adds the ability to have DW tweet about your new entries. It's nearly ready, and I wouldn't mind some alpha-testing to see if people can find interesting ways to break it.
If you want to have a go,
Bear in mind that you are theoretically giving me the ability to read and to post to any twitter account that you associate in this way. I'm not going to do anything with it, but it is remotely possible that bugs in my code might - this has not had any code review yet - so you might want to use a non-important account. Please remember to revoke access from https://twitter.com/settings/applications when you've finished playing with this.
A particular maybe-prone-to-oddity area that could use testing is anything involving unicode and >1-byte characters, as they relate to the length of tweets. Twitter should allow 140 characters, not 140 bytes, and hopefully my code should count things correctly to truncate long text in the right place.
Thanks, and have fun :-)
EDIT: At the moment, while tweeting from my Dreamhack seems to work, signing up for new accounts doesn't. I shall investigate and update here, probably around midday GMT on 31st Jan.
Update 31/01: It wasn't me! New account creation doesn't work on the current develop branch. I'll make another post here when it's actually possible for people to test!
Update:fu fixed the problem. It should work now :-)
If you want to have a go,
- Create an account on http://www.swaldman.hack.dreamwidth.net/ (I'll leave it live here until further notice, which will be at least a few days)
- On the Other Sites settings page there will be a new link "Add New Twitter Account". Do that.
- Then it should work just like crossposting, except that only the subject of the entry is of interest.
- Let me know (here is good) if you break it in an interesting way, or indeed if you have other comments. Reports of "All works fine for me" are also very welcome, although of course not as useful as bug reports.
Bear in mind that you are theoretically giving me the ability to read and to post to any twitter account that you associate in this way. I'm not going to do anything with it, but it is remotely possible that bugs in my code might - this has not had any code review yet - so you might want to use a non-important account. Please remember to revoke access from https://twitter.com/settings/applications when you've finished playing with this.
A particular maybe-prone-to-oddity area that could use testing is anything involving unicode and >1-byte characters, as they relate to the length of tweets. Twitter should allow 140 characters, not 140 bytes, and hopefully my code should count things correctly to truncate long text in the right place.
Thanks, and have fun :-)
EDIT: At the moment, while tweeting from my Dreamhack seems to work, signing up for new accounts doesn't. I shall investigate and update here, probably around midday GMT on 31st Jan.
Update 31/01: It wasn't me! New account creation doesn't work on the current develop branch. I'll make another post here when it's actually possible for people to test!
Update:
fu fixed the problem. It should work now :-)