Just a short note because most of you will (hopefully) not notice anything different. If you use both 43 Things and 43 Places, you have been logging in to both with your 43 Things account. We’re splitting them apart, so now you have separate 43 Things and 43 Places accounts. All existing users have had their usernames and passwords copied over, so you have the same urls, same usernames, and same passwords as before.
If you’re having trouble logging in, I apologize for any bugs, and please contact us so we can get things sorted out.
If you’re curious about our reasons for doing this, it’s mostly to reduce confusion (with things like logging in with facebook, closing accounts, etc) as we develop the two sites in different directions. If you haven’t had a look at 43 Places in a while, go take a look.
Someone forgot to pay the bills around here so our WordPress domain mapping quietly expired yesterday. Sorry if you were unable to get to our blog. Everything should be back to normal now.
Happy almost-Spring! Just a heads up that our web host is doing some scheduled maintenance on Saturday night, from 10:00PM to 2:00AM Sunday morning (Pacific Time). We’re told that the maintenance won’t include downtime, but you know how these things go.
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
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]
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?
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!
