Hey Peeksters!

We will be pushing some new system features to the live servers as well as fixing those annoying bugs everyones had to deal with for waaaay too long! (I want my Gmail contacts, and I want them now!)

Server maintenance will occur tomorrow (THURS) between 6-8 AM EST. Note 2 hour span. During this time, you may experience delayed emails/text and could even miss an email or two on your device.

Thanks for your patience, I'll post tomorrow AM if we need to have prolonged maintenance!

Patch Notes:

Fix Gmail Contact Downloads
Resolve lingering issues with Hotmail/Live/MSN accounts that do not receive randomly
Fix Reply All and editing Reply To address
Fix Invalid Username/Password combo on newly added Google Apps accounts
Fix emails with funky headers/symbols (generally spam mail) causing device to perpetually reboot. (Related to some really old code)
Twitter Peek stuff and a ton of other really in depth changes to our server environment. Amazon Web Services is amazing! We've also recently built our own in house data center and are actively moving our databases off of the Amazon cloud for increased performance!

For the future: We will be doing a MAJOR release that will be adding a ton more exchange server functionality! - No time line established yet though.

Are you going to finally take off the getpeek.com header?

Yeah I would like to know about patch notes as well. Besides the software change patchnotes.

Hurrah for bugfixes! Looking forward to tomorrow. =)

I'd be greatly gratified by patch notes in an RSS feed (the standard name for this being, to my understanding, a "changelog.") Publishing a changelog some way or another is common for software for several reasons. It helps keep fans excited about development and confident in your interest in supporting the device. It also helps with troubleshooting problems since users can relate new behavior to new changes and report relevant information instead of ignoring things that don't seem important. That's my perspective on that, anyway.

Regarding the text message problem: I wouldn't really call it a debate since no one has argued for it yet.

A bit off-topic, but part of the current off-topic conversation:

tmel: I'm sorry if the selfish demands of customers make you feel personally maligned. I'd probably feel a bit the same way. I also realize that poor decisions generally do not seem poor at the time and that you were probably not each in on every decision, but that you need to defend the overall situation that you're each a part of, since you're a team and a company. Please don't take my complaints personally unless I specifically make them personal. Also, I hope you don't take other customer's complaints, rants, and various frustrations personally. Even if someone vents specifically at one of your team, it's probably misdirected frustration.

That said, I'll certainly continue to voice my concerns about various issues until I sense their resolution (even if that just means finding out that something I consider a problem is something the Peek folks consider a necessity.)

Keep up the good work guys.

@valzi - I love when you guys complain/provide feedback. It lets me know what I need to harass my team members about so that we can improve our product and make Peek the best thing since sliced bread!

I know I have said this before, but we really do listen and care what you guys think. We love Peek, we love our customers. We're nothing without a happy customer base!

Tmel,do those "colleges" offer a financial aid program? :-)

@tmel do we have to do anything at our end?

From what I can tell, ReplyAll is working good, and changing the "To:" in a reply sends to both the original sender and edited To field.

So, tiny bug still, but better than completely ignoring my edits ;)

@tmel I know you guys have plenty of resources for testing, but I have wayyy too many email addresses, so if you need someone outside the office to test something like this let me know. Plus I'm a computer science PhD student so I know my debugging ;-)

I haven't received a single PeekFeed today... am I the only one?

Not sure if this is related at all, but it seemed appropriate considering there were changes made.

PeekFeed is a 3rd party service and has nothing to do with your Peek service.

I'd suggest checking out http://peekfeed.com/feedback.php for support.

Aha, so that's what the problem is. Some of my friends are less technologically-inclined and will open both txts, which will cost them money.

I'm pretty sure that's normal with Gmail. Gmail won't show you the second copy of the email, it's actually only one, on their interface. Sent mail doesn't go to Peek, and that message is considered a sent message.

Anyone confirm or correct me?

Sorry if this is off topic, but I don't want to start another thread.

Has PDF support been changed? I just received a PDF on Sunday and noticed I wasn't able to open it. I think I remember hearing that not all PDF are supported (if they don't have text), I think I have opened the same PDF type from the same sender before.

@impel I think in general it's better start another thread. Makes it easier for people to find your question.