I am highly confident that sometime in the next three weeks (perhaps quite soon) AAPL is going to breach key support and throw fresh gasoline on the tech stock meltdown. I’ve got my SlopeAlert all set and waiting to let me know.
Apple Alarm Set
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Let’s Comfort Each Other
After a day like today, what better opportunity to emoji each other to death? Think of it as group therapy. Also think of it as a more sensible exercise in testing than what we pulled on Monday morning. Please Ctrl-F5 your browser to make sure it’s nice and fresh, and let’s get emotional together.
Time to Truly Test
As most of you know, this morning the site was brought to its knees because a new feature – – emojis – – wasn’t quite ready for prime time. I’d like your help putting it through the paces, and this time I’ve opened up our development test server for everyone. Please go to this post and leave comments and “emoji” other comments that are there. I really need you to emoji the hell out of this thing so we can smoke out any issues. I say again, please go there now and bang on it, because the more real-world data we’ve got, the better. You’ll probably have to log in when you get there (since it’s a development server) but once you’re logged in, have at it! Thank you very much, and I look forward to re-introducing emojis in a condition that doesn’t wreck my beloved Slope.
Regrouping
Hey everybody. Again, thanks for putting up with the very rough ride this morning. It was definitely emoji-related, but I don’t want you turning your back on this spiffy new feature due to some downtime. What we’re going to do is put it through the wringer (this time, on a development server) with your help later today and figure out where the problem is. Anyway, we seem to be back in business 100%, with the temporary removal of our emoji friends. I’ll do a post after the close telling you precisely how you can help. Thank you!
Mobile Comments!
Hours ago, we rolled out emoticons into the comments system, and they are pretty damned cool. With such a complex feature, there were naturally some hiccups along the way, and one of them was the fact that people using the Slope mobile app were, in some cases, only able to see one comment, and for those who could see more than one, well, it was a big fat mess!
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