Tech Group Report 2012-01-31
DRAFT - still being edited
FREEGLE TECH REPORT
This is a report for the activities on the Tech group for January 2012. It covers messages 6629 to 6999
FACEBOOK and FREEGLE DIRECT ISSUES
Edward has a permanent surgery dealing with republishing issues, ably assisted by Jean. During January the following issues were dealt with:
- i. Delay in Admin posts
- ii. Messages appearing on Facebook but not on the Yahoo group
- iii. Subject line on automated messages
- iv. Wording on reminder message
- v. Republisher wording on details message
- vi. Immediate email messages not immediate
- vii. Republisher not actioning requests to be asked about Facebook
- viii. Facebook unsubscribes caused by the republisher tidying up
- ix. Republisher splitting location names
- x. Mapping locations anomalies
- xi. Turning digests off for whole group
- xii. How long to display read messages
- xiii. Regularity of republisher permission emails
- xiv. ‘Like’ button for Freegle Facebook page in emails
- xv. Autocorrecting subject lines
- xvi. Clickable links - not working and faulty
- xvii. Removal of statistics gathering facility
- xviii. Correction of bad format on chase up emails
- xix. Deleting spam emails
- xx. Ex-members still receiving emails
- xxi. FD picking up Yahoo person email address
- xxii. Deleting pending posts
- xxiii. ‘Undesirables’ on Facebook and Direct
- xxiv. Joining groups by ‘Liking’ pages
- xxv. ‘What’s New’ email - shorten and make opt out easier to find
- xxvi. ‘Real’ email now showing for Facebook users, but not yet able to send out auto joining messages
- xxvii. Facebook groups being able to get feed from Freegle
- xxviii. Undefined messages using Facebook
- xxix. Statistics gathering turned off due to server overload
- xxx. Sending multiple copies of same email
- xxxi. Incorrect directs from Facebook wall
- xxxii. Rejection messages if photo is too large to upload
USABILITY
Discussions are in progress about the achieving the best usability of our Website, Facebook and Freegle Direct, particularly in relation to the sequence and number of actions needed to join a group.
MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT
Tech has identified that a mobile app would be the next logical step in making Freegle as accessible as possible.
i. Julie (Bolton) is the contact point for interested people to design an app; groups are encouraged to ask if they have any willing volunteers who could help.
ii. Chris has investigated ibuildapp as a possible tool to use, but it is not suitable for the complexities of the app we will need.
PROMOTING FREEGLE DIRECT TO GROUPS
More needs to be done to promote Freegle Direct to our own groups. Discussion is ongoing on how best to do this.
SUBSTITUTION STRINGS
A substitution string for a group short name was discussed
HOW MUCH WE SAVE FROM LANDFILL
Edward is developing a facility for the republisher to estimate weights of goods that have been listed as Taken or Received. This will give more meaningful figures than we have at present for publicity purposes.
SUPPORT MAILBOX
Julie asked for volunteers to man the support@ mailbox for techy queries and problems.
MESSAGE MAKER
A suggestion that Message Maker warns when someone enters the same subject line and email address within a short period of time is being considered.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Chris reviews statistics produced by Google to see where and how much traffic there is that relates to Freegle, and posts an analysis on Central each month.
WIKI CHECK
Freegle’s entry in WIkipedia is checked and updated weekly by Jon.
TASK LIST
The task list on Tech is out of date and not used.
If anyone is interested in volunteering for any techy type jobs (or any others!) please contact Julie on volunteer@ilovefreegle.org and she will be able to let you know what is available and what it involves.
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