Entries categorized as ‘Announcements’
This is a post about two of our lesser-known websites, 43 Places and Lists of Bests.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve begun work on a big revamp of 43 Places. One of our first orders of business is improving the way users can create lists of places. To simplify the list-making process across all our websites, we’re going to move all the Lists of Bests place lists into 43 Places.
No need to worry about missing lists, lost data, or broken links, as nothing will be removed in the process. You’ll still be able to track your progress as you step foot onto each of the 7 continents, and keep checking off items on the 50 places to see before you die.
As always, please let us know if you have suggestions on how we can improve our sites, even if the suggestions aren’t related to hyphenation.
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It’s almost 43 days after New Year’s, and we hope you’ve got your New Year’s Resolutions squared away. We just took the Resolutions feature off the home page, but you can always access your 2010 Resolutions with the tab on your profile page:
Or you can go directly to your 2010 Resolutions if you know your username, e.g. http://www.43things.com/people/resolutions/joe
From that page, you can copy individual Resolutions over to your Life List with the click of a button!
While we were at it, we did an update to the homepage, which should make it easier to add new goals and create a new account. New users can play around with the site, adopting goals which are temporarily saved until they create a 43 Things account. We also cleaned up the log in and sign up pages.
Check it out: http://www.43things.com
As always, please let us know if you see bugs, slownesses, or any other ghosts in the machine.
Thanks, from the Robots
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
January 21, 2010 · 1 Comment
How’s your 2010 going so far? We hope you’re sticking to your New Years Resolutions!
Sunday morning starting at 2:00am Pacific time, we’re bringing all the sites down for database maintenance. The outage may last up to 4 hours, but probably won’t take that long. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and we hope we picked a time that will impact as few people as possible.
update: maintenance completed without any problems. The sites were down for about 2.5 hours. Thanks for your patience (especially those further East from us who had to go without 43 Things in the middle of their days!)
[Photo by andrewscott]
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
Are you curious about how many things you’ve accomplished this year? What your most successful month was? Whether you’ve given more cheers or received more cheers? Maybe you’re making some New Year’s Resolutions and you just want to look back on the past year. We’ve added a new feature for data nerds and anyone who wants to reflect on 2009:
It’s your 43 Things Year In Review. All the gory details in list format are also available. There’s a link to it on the right side of your profile page, like so:
When I looked at my Year In Review I noticed that I write entries and give cheers in fits and spurts. I also found a few goals from the beginning of the year that I totally forgot about. Is there anything interesting, surprising, or totally expected in yours?
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Tagged: 2009, 43 things, 43things, charts, graphs, year in review
We robots love our iPhones (Joe is the only robot without one). Now there’s an all new version of the 43 Things app. It’s gotten a complete UI redesign and some new features that we hope will make it more fun and useful. You can post entries with photos using the built in camera, add new goals, and review your goals, completed goals, and entries. There’s one new feature for iPhone app users only: a 0-100% progress meter for each goal.
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Carry your list of goals in your pocket
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Track progress and review your entries on your goals
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Post entries with photos
Download it for free from the iTunes Store using this link, or search for “43 things” (PS. we had to release a new app rather than do an upgrade of our existing app, so users who already have our app will have to install it again instead of upgrading). We hope you like it!
Categories: Announcements · Software
Tagged: 43 things, 43things, iphone, iphone app
We’ve made some recent hardware changes in our ongoing efforts to speed up the sites and keep things more stable. We just finished commissioning 7 new boxes in our fleet, 
with a net increase of 2 servers.
We are now running on a total of 9 web servers with of 16GB of RAM per box.
New hardware is not all it takes to keep 43things.com running fast and stable, but it is part of the solution, and some of the hardware we replaced was 4 years old. We’ll update you on some of the network and software changes we are also making to deal with the increased usage of the site. Thanks for putting up with some of the site’s setbacks. We feel lucky to have a problem like too much content and too many heavy users – that is the sort of problem we never want to get rid of.
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
You’ll notice some changes on 43 Places today. We’re working on an overhaul of sorts … rearranging and clarifying lots of the good things about 43 Places and adding a few new features. We’ll be working on it in the coming weeks so expect changes and fixes to roll out pretty regularly.
I’m on Maui today, but the other Robots are back in lovely Seattle. Take a look at your turf and let us know how it looks. Mahalo.
Categories: Announcements
We’re getting ready to push some changes to the goal page on 43 Things. First up, the release of How I Did It stories. The How I Did It story allows you to craft a more thoughtful entry about how you accomplished a goal. You’ll be able to share your experiences, resources and pictures with people looking to do the same thing. Here’s how a How I Did It story will look on the goal page (click to enlarge):
This is the first substantive change to the goal page since we launched 43 Things back in 2005. It will take some getting used to — and you may not see these stories at first until folks take the time to write a few How I Did Its, at which point they’ll take the top position on the page.
The goal of these changes is to make 43 Things a more useful resource for people working on their goals. All of us who have accomplished a goal have our own experiences and tips to share with those who are still working on it. Other changes are more housecleaning, as 4 years on the internet leads to stale designs and feature cruft. So when we are done, it will be a pretty new look for 43 Things. Give it a few days to sink in and then let us know what you think.
update: we hope to launch this early next week
re-update: we launched How I Did It stories today (Sept. 9, 2008 @ 4:20pm PST)
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We’re launching a new navigation bar for 43 Things. Hopefully this week. Here it is (click on it to see the full size image):
The new nav bar includes Your X Things, Zeitgeist & Your Account. When you click on Your Account a dropdown box opens up with Subscriptions, Messages, Edit Account and Log Out. The search box is much bigger and the 43 Things logo moves over to the left. The pages will get a little wider (we’re moving from 750 pixels to 930 pixels). We’ve already moved many pages to 930 in the past few months, but we’re getting them all over to 930 pixels wide with the new nav bar. You may notice that there’s extra white space on the goal page – we’ll be tightening that up in the coming weeks as we’re working on a redesign of the goal page that will make use of the new 930 width.
The important links will be readily available to you from any page. You’ll now be one click away at all times from editing your account, viewing your subscriptions and your messages.
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