Everything is going to be new.
A few weeks ago I’ve told you all that we built a new core and that it was running fine in the background. Well it still is. It’s awesome and makes lots of new stuff possible. What does it do? Too much for one blogpost, but the main thing is, we now cache tweets, this so the interface is going to be smoother, faster and it has lots of other advantages.
Last few weeks Max and I have been working on the frontend to make that work with the new backend, that doesn’t completely work yet, but we are getting along.
There where two big javascript errors, both caused by a new better javascript engine, but since it had to show a lot of tweets, we had to make some adjustments to make sure your browsers wouldn’t crash. One of them is completely fixed, the other one caused some interface trouble, so will be dealt with later today.
The most important change for you is that you now won’t get a tweet update window on reply, but you get a action window where you can reply, retweet, direct message and in a few weeks, forward,… :-) The last is a very important to us, so it’s not being implemented in the next update. But along with new follower options it’s going to be ready in a few weeks.
Thanks for all your positive reactions and for your patience.
Harold
