We have re-opened the post rank widget (now the star rank widget) in the control panel. The better part of our second public beta day has been spent addressing the issue described in our prior post. We are happy to report that all outstanding issues have resolved. To that end there are some new things about the MajikWidget service that you should be aware of immediately:

• If you are currently using a post rank widget, the code you currently have installed WILL NO LONGER OPERATE. You will need to log in to the control panel and generate new code for EACH USE of the widget. You can replace your existing codes with the new code. What about all those credits? We'll cover that in a moment.


• As alluded to in point #1 the implementation method has changed. Like the poll widget you will now need to generate new code for each time you plan to use the post rank widget. This will guarantee a unique identifier and allow the system to correctly keep track of the voting. The initial problem was in part due to the fact that we were using bleeding edge technology to try and automate this earlier. We're just to far ahead of things for now.


• In the process we have re-tooled both the post rank widget and poll widget to be 5x more efficient. We reduced the overhead (load time) of everything and dropped about 50Mb of back end load. This should increase load time as you implement widgets.

In closing we would like to thank each and every one of you again for be patient with our beta launch. Though we anticipated many things prior to launch, Murphy's Law is just undeniable. The experienced team here has voted this beta launch one of the perfect storms in product launches. We are confident that we have aligned things in the right direction and will continue to work hard to earn your business.

When you login to your control panel in the next few hours be sure to look under the "My Account" tab. We are going to reset everyone's usage credits back to the day you first signed up. This means any polls that you have in use will continue to work and your account will not be debited for its use. Everyone who was present during this outage gets to start over with a clean slate. Thank you for being a MajikWidget client!

Tags: MajikWidget, Blog, Widget, Bug Fix

Permanent Link posted by The Widget Master @ 8:07 PM