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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by magsafe on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @12:21PM (#3452655)
Interesting idea, but can't get it to work. I created a test account and added 2 WordPress blogs to it: TechCrunch and the official Wordpress blog (http://wordpress.org/news/). Went through the steps, downloaded the sandbox app on my iPhone 4S and tried to preview them. App instantly crashes when loading both sites. Is it just that these blogs don't have the required JSON plugins (possible)? Or is it that they have too much content for Appifier to handle? Either way, an abrupt crash doesn't inspire confidence. Do you have any sample blogs we can try to test this with?
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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by dangrossman on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:21PM (#3452930)
That plugin is a core part of their app. You have to download and install it. You can't just put in someone else's blog URL; they don't have the appifier plugin running. WordPress doesn't have a JSON API built in, that's something he created.
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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by gozman on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:16PM (#3452899)
Sorry Magsafe, you need to have JSON API installed. This is written on the site.
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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by magsafe on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:37PM (#3453008)
My point was the app should never crash, for whatever reason. You need to handle failures gracefully.
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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by JulianMiller520 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:30PM (#3453249)
(read as: this toaster didn't fail gracefully when i tossed it in the tub)
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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by gozman on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @05:07PM (#3453919)
You're right. We didn't anticipate this kind of traffic. We're working on it. Thanks for letting us know. :)
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