Partial Image Embed Code – If there is a partial image embed code in the HTML then when you try to publish your post Blogsy will just close. This will no longer happen after this update. Until this update comes out you can resolve this problem by flipping to the HTML Side and deleting any partial image embed codes.
Tistory Blog – If the publish date is set to automatic then the categories do not get posted with the blog post when the post is published. This only effects Tistory blogs. Until this update comes out you can set the date of the post and the categories will get published with the post.
[Changed]
German Language – “Automatisch” changed to “Autom.”
Yesterday we discovered that Squarespace was having trouble the their API. We sent them an email asking about this and they responded with the following.
Thank you for taking the time to email us here. Our developers have this as a known issue and are working on a fix as soon as possible. I've marked this message for follow up and we'll let you know as soon as this is resolved.
We appreciate your patience — Thank you!
So if you are having trouble posting or uploading photos to your Squarespace 5 blog then it will be resolved as soon as Squarespace gets this fixed.
Blogger Page – If you set the Post Type as a “Page” in the Post Info. menu then left Blogsy and Blogsy got cleared from memory then when you came back you would not be able to open that page from the local draft list. This only effected Blogger blog users. If you are a Blogger user you should not set the Post Type to “Page” until right before you post that page to your blog.
Load 10 More Pages – If you tapped on the “Load 10 More Pages” option for your online pages the menu would just close. This only effected online pages and not posts.
Tumbr attachment view – Blogsy didn’t close the attachment view when switching from the Rich Side to the HTML Side.
Tumblr attachment clear – If you had attached images to a Tumblr post in the attachment box then tapped on that same Tumblr blog in the Online list the images would disappear from the attachment box.
iPad Photo Library – If you first opened the iPad photo library panel then an album then switched between the Envelope and Direct upload views and tried to drag an image into an envelope the image would drag in as a blank square. If you tried to upload it this way Blogsy could freeze or crash.
German Language – If the blog title was long it would partially overlap with the publish date and time.
Satyr (Blogsy 4.2) can now be found on the App Store.
This is the full list of the things we have added, changed and fixed in this update. But I will be doing blog posts each day explaining and showing with screenshots the features we have added and the changes we made.
[Added]
Markdown Support – Add support for writing and converting Markdown.
HTML Keyboard – Added option to turn on an extended keyboard for typing HTML.
History – Keeps versions of your post so you can revert back to a previous version.
Save Button – We added a save button so you can save a version.
Add URL scheme – If other apps add support for this URL scheme then you can send content from another app into Blogsy to create a blog post.
Resize to thumbnail – When you drag in an image to your blog post from the iPad photo library iOS provides Blogsy with an address to where that image can be found on the iPad. If the image can no longer be found at that address Blogsy will display a message and resize the images to 100 by 100 which can’t be found to make it easier to find which images have the problem and need to be deleted and dragged in again.
Added Draft setting for TypePad blogs.
Added parsing when fetching Joomla posts to check for special HTML entities and converting them to plain text.
Triple “+” tap – If you tap three times quickly on the plus button “+” it will move the current open post to the local draft list and start a new post.
[Changed]
User Interface (UI) changes.
Moved button for the (direct/envelope) upload option to the top of the iPad Photo Library panel.
Moved Local drafts from the Post Info. menu to the Plus button menu.
Moved Online post list from Post Info. menu to the Online menu next to the Plus button menu.
Moved the Default Photo Upload Location setting option for the General Settings menu to the Post Info. menu.
Search bars – Changed the style of all the search bars at the top of the panels.
Vimeo – Blogsy now detects and uses original video dimensions of dragged in video.
Posterous – The Posterous API no longer functions and Posterous will be shutting down soon so we removed Posterous from Blogsy.
Changed from Crittercism to Crashlytics to track crashes.
Switching Button – For UI reasons the option to enable/disable the switching button in the General Settings button was removed.
Tumblr – Tumblr changed their OAuth so Tumblr users could not set up their blogs in Blogsy. We have updated our code to work with that new Tumblr OAuth.
Instagram – Instagram changed their OAuth so OAuth users could not set up their Instagram accounts in Blogsy. Instagram reverted back to the OAuth for a few weeks then will change to this new OAuth again. We changed the code so you will be able to set up your account with the old or new OAuth.
iPad Photo Library Refresh – If you drag an image from the web browser and save it to your iPad photo library then Blogsy will refresh that view so you will see the new image right away instead of you first having to tap on another dock item to force a refresh.
[Bug Fixes]
Link crash fixed – If you tried to create a link and you pasted in a URL with a blank space at the beginning of the URL Blogsy would crash.
Freezing problem fixed – If Blogy could not find the photo on the iPad/Photostream at the address that iOS provided then Blogsy would freeze. Now Blogsy will display a message saying that the image(s) cannot be found at the address iOS provided.
WordPress tag refresh fixed – When you created a new tag Blogsy would not refresh the list of tags.
Invalid HTML crash fixed – Blogsy would crash when trying to post or if you tapped on the Post. Info. button and there was mismatched brackets (< and >) in the HTML.
Flickering bug fixed – If your blog sends back an error message you get an option to email that to us. After choosing one of the options in this menu the screen would flicker until you cleared Blogsy from memory and launched it again.
The Instagram people left a comment on the forum thread explaining the problem.
Hey folks,
We started appending an empty hash parameter to our URLs, to avoid hash-parameters leaking across an Instagram authorization flow.
Unfortunately, not all URL parsing libraries properly parse this out of request parameters, so we’ve started accepting codes either with or without the #_ at the end. Also, we’ve now added a whole separate parameter to separate the code from the hash, so the callback now looks like:
?code=<thecode>&_=_#_
It seems like some apps are still having issues even with this fix, so we’re going to do the following: we’ll remove the empty hash for the next 3 weeks, and then re-enable it, to give folks times to update apps in the App Store etc. Just a reminder that it’s not enough to just read the code= and then everything afterwards; you should use whatever built-in URL parsing library for your platform to just parse out the code parameter.
-Mike
We just got a tweet today from someone saying they were not able to set up their Instagram account in Blogsy. We tested it and we are also having the same problem. What we found is that there is currently a problem in the Instagram API. We have tweeted Instagram, sent an email and also commented on forum threads about this.
We have found that other developers are having the same problem with the Instagram API.
Us, along with some other developers, got an email from a Tumblr employee on Saturday asking about the details of the problem. We sent in the details but still have not received a response. But we figured out a solution to the problem.
Developers, along with us, were having a similar problem with Instagram. An Instagram employee sent an email out to the developers explaining the change they made which caused this problem. They also said they would undo the changes for 3 weeks to give developers time to update their apps to work with these changes. So we were working on making those changes for Instagram and we were wondering if the same solution would work for the Tumblr problem. We tested it and it does work. So it seems that Tumbr made a similar change to their API.
We have now fixed the Tumblr problem and this fix will be in our next update. We hope to submit this update (Blogsy 4.2) early next week and Apple takes about a week to approve updates so it will be in the App Store then.
There is currently a problem with the Tumblr OAuth API. This means that if you try to set up your Tumblr blog in Blogsy you will get “Failed” message.
We first started getting emails about this last Wednesday and we tweeted, emailed and commented on forums about this issue. A Tumblr engineer responded on Saturday and he is currently looking into this problem. When I have further information I will update this post.
Because this is a Tumblr API issue it is effecting other app developers as well. Here are some forum threads about it and some comments on the forum.
mikeysee
Anyone noticed any problems with the Tumblr oAuth API lately? I hvae been having quite a few reports of people having problems 3/5/13 11:46 PM
mikeysee
Okay there is definitely something going on with the tumblr oauth system. Anyone read anything about any changes being made? 3/6/13 2:34 AM
mikeysee
WTF? Tumblr’s oauth_verifier now returns illegal chars “_=_” 3/6/13 3:27 AM
This is just a quick update with a few fixes for things users found.
Bug Fixes
1) Tumblr – If you fetched a post from your Tumblr blog that had tags and you had the “Posted with Blogsy” footer turned on in Blogsy then your blog post content would not be shown. Fixed.
2) Tumblr – If you tried to publish a Photo type post then you could receive an error message when trying to publish. Fixed.
3) IBM Connections Blog and Naver Blog – After you published a post the blog would send back an error code even though the post had published. This has to do with a string type tag missing in the response data and Blogsy not accounting for that. Fixed.
4) Settings Menu – In the blog and service setup menus if you tapped on “Edit” then scrolled the menu the “Delete All Accounts” button could disappear. Fixed.
1. Photo Library – Fixed a crashing problem if you’re running pre iOS 5.1 and try to access the iPad photo library.
2. WordPress – If your blog did not have the title set then Blogsy would not set up the media library.
3. Link Setting – If your link URL had a space in front of the URL Blogsy would crash.
4. Naver Blogs – Blogsy would show an error report popup when Naver blog users tried to publish a post which had unicode data in it.
[Added]
1. Show “Can’t Use Emoji” message when you’re trying to use the Emoji keyboard. Blogs don’t recognize the iOS Emoji code so they delete post content after the Emoji in a post.
2. MovableType – support multiple category setting and fetching.
3. Blogger – Blogger chooses to us a tag instead of the standard
tag. For Blogsy to conform with this the post is parsed and
tags are converted to two tags and
tags are converted to a single tag when publishing. Now there is an option in the Settings menu to turn off this parsing and converting.
[Improved]
1. Memory usage improvement for using photos in the iPad photo library.
[Changes]
1. WordPress – Blogsy no longer publishes a post as “Standard” if the post format is not set. Instead Blogsy sends empty post format information and WordPress will set it to “Standard” itself. This means there will no longer be a second “Standard” post format created and a listing of your posts in the WP-Admin will no longer show “Standard”.
Currently you cannot post to your Posterous blog with Blogsy because the Posterous API is down.
If you try to post to your blog you will get a “HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error”. We emailed the people at Posterous and tweeted them last Friday and we are still waiting for a response. I will update this post when we have more information.
This is the error code Posterous is sending back when you try to publish your post.
And when we go to the Posterous API site for developers you can see that we get the same 500 error code.
These are the things which can be found in this update.
Bug Fixes
WordPress – Geolocation locality no longer shows as “null” in the Geotagging section.
WordPress – If the value type of the Featured Image ID was a number instead of a string then Blogsy would crash. Fixed.
Blogger – The <br> tag in a <div> tag would get stripped out in a post fetched from the blog. Fixed.
Tumblr, Posterous – Corrected text in the photo attachment box to reflect when it is possible to drag in photos to attach them to a post.
Picasa – Blogsy now uses the longer image dimension to set the Picasa image display size source.
Instagram – If a user had their Instagram account set to private Blogsy would crash when trying to drag in an image from Instagram. Fixed.
Typepad – If a post was created in the HTML view in the Typepad admin and a user hit enter (creating a new line) when writing that post then Blogsy would treat this as a new paragraph even though Typepad did not. Blogsy now treats it the same way as Typepad and collapses those.
Cannon CR2 RAW photos – If a user had imported Cannon CR2 images and there were more than 6 of those images in an album Blogsy would crash when accessing that album. Fixed.
HTML / Photo Uploads - If the HTML sent from the iPad for embedded images was different than the typical HTML Blogsy would publish is as that HTML instead of first uploading the images. Fixed
Link Button – If a user selected more than one word to create a link the “Link” option would not appear in the text selection bubble. Fixed.
HTML / Lists – The placement of </ul> and </lo> in the HTML code would be incorrect in some situations. Fixed.
Delete Button – The “Delete” button in the Image, Video, and Link Settings menus would move when scrolling the menu up and down. Fixed.
Function Changes
Accessing iPad Photo Library – Improved memory usage so loading speeds are greatly improved.
iPad Photo Library – Changed default setting so Blogsy will open to direct drag in method instead of envelope view after first installing Blogsy.
Tumblr, Posterous – When a user is working on a Tumblr photo post or a Posterous post then Blogsy will default open to the envelope view when tapping on the iPad Photo Library. This is done because Tumblr and Posterous have the option to attach images to a post but do not have the option to embed photos from the iPad Photo library and have the embedded photos uploaded at the time of publishing.
Translation – Updated translation for all languages.
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