Fits in the iPhone again

Took a bit of time for me to get to it but I finally fixed the CSS to where Crusher (especially the event page your guests see) is accessible and looks good in the jesus-phone, I mean the iPhone. Editing your page is still limited cause the iPhone can’t do stuff like drag & drop for reordering modules, but this is okay I think. The main use case we want to support is where you as a guest gets an invite in your email or SMS and you choose to visit the page.

I also fixed a few of the themes, just made them look a bit better. And added a “Cola” theme

Found: rockstar RoR coder

Thanks to Bob Z. for introducing us to Dusty M. of New York who has now officially taken on the spot as the next Crusher coder (start date Monday, July 21st). I now owe Bob a BBQ dinner at Memphis Minnies (yum).

Looking for rockstar RoR coder.

Not so good news: It’s time for Russell to move on to a real gig. By real I mean those that actually make money and pay money. Not a shock, always been part of the plan. So now I am solo on Crusher and searching for someone to take his place.

Are you a Ruby Rails developer who comes up with lots of cool new features and ways to optimize an app - but not getting them deployed at work? We have a test driven process and we push every week! If you are ready for something fun on the side, something that doesn’t come with a big bi-monthly paycheck, something you can call your own - Crusher is looking for you. Offering nice equity now.

Dear users, those bugs are fixed!

Well, our engineering team finally got back from Nicaragua vacation and was able to fix the two bugs. Unfortunately there are still some people left out there with dead Stuff pages. I am hoping our engineering team will find some mercy time and kill that particular break - possibly a residual from the previous bugs. 

Please don’t get us wrong. Crusher doesn’t usually have so many glaring bugs. This is a special time when our engineering team is distracted and unmerciful. But we’re working on a remedy. Haven’t found one yet but am praying.

Dear users, we have some known bugs

So our engineering team is away for several days and the last deployment introduced a coupla bugs that can’t get fixed until the team gets back. By team, I mean Russell. He’s in Nicaragua.

BUG #1 - The background image of your page does not show up for you but it does for your guests. Possible remedy for now: Go into your Customize pane and change the background image setting from “None” to “Custom”, then Save.

BUG #2 - Pages which use an older background pattern will break if you try to clone it. This means some of our templates break because some of them use the older background patterns. Possible remedy for now: Go into your Customize pane and pick any of the patterns available (which are new) in order to get rid of the old pattern, then Save.

I apologize for these bumps in the road. Time compression often leaves us forgetting to test some of these use cases before deploying.

Better than evite!

I just found out about this site, or I should say page, which lists out alternatives to evite. Crusher is on top of the list Thanks, to whomever you are.

http://evitealternatives.com

Video avatars are here!

We just did a quiet push today of a feature that lets you make video avatars of yourself which appears on your event pages and reacts when your guests RSVP. Give it a shot. Just go into your Account page and opt into it - record using your web cam - and you’re set for your next event.

No event in the near future? Here is a demo page. Just add yourself as a guest in the guest module, then RSVP. Watch Cole’s reaction on the top left.

Uber-hip Event Service: Crush3r

Cool Webware write-up on p0pulist which mentions dear Crusher as the above

“Populist is the first project from the folks at Particle, who include the founder of uber-hip event service Crush3r (review) and the designer of many of Yahoo’s mobile apps. Keep an eye on these guys.”

Set your settings

You can now update your settings here.

Up next: Notification System

What’s been in the works recently is to re-engineer the whole notification system and give users absolute control on what, when, how much to get in their inbox. By default we will have all new users receiving a digest of all activity every 3 days, if any. Today, you get one once a day if there are any activity. That seems to be too much to most people. Especially when the majority of the activity are comments on the page made by people you don’t necessarily know (yet). In contrast, organizers can set it up to where they get immediately emailed (or SMS texted) each time a guest RSVP’s.

You’ll find this in your Account page by Thursday if all goes well.

About yesterday: The site went back up after three hours. Sorry for the down time. Was out of our control. We expect that stuff to be rare since our provider is pretty good about that stuff.