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Re: Help Wanted! - C/C++ & Objective-C Developers

Nic_Newman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:56:21 -0000

Hey, I'm an experienced iPhone and Mac dev and I'd love to help. I sent you guys an email but in case you didn't get it I'm posting it here.

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dan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:09:36 -0000

would love the ability to run my own connection server

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Zell — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:19:52 -0000

Why do you say this? Each client's server-side session is completely self-contained and can be load-balanced onto any server. This seems to me like a problem that scales nearly indefinitely just by adding more machines (technically speaking, economics is a different matter). If you wanted to get really fancy you could perhaps even do something with Amazon EC2.

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stealth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:10:47 -0000

because of all the hype. I can't believe it myself that this program is garbage.

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Johnyy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:54:32 -0000

Why didn´t I wait a little before purchasing a construction site? :(

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monkeyrun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:44:17 -0000

At this point I am starting to doubt if you'll ever be able to handle all the connections.

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Jeremy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:42:19 -0000

Goodness.... now you are putting out desparate pleas for programmers???

I want my money back.

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stealth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:42:01 -0000

its not just the server issue, the actual program itself is incomplete and buggy.

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Kyle Howarth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:40:40 -0000

Hey guys,

Keep up the great work! I'm sorry you launch didn't go as expected, but growing pains are a part of development. I'm sure you'll have everything up and running very smoothly in no time. I'm sending you an email and I'd like to help. I know iPhone dev pretty well!

Kyle

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wasabi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:16:38 -0000

mobilechat seems to be buggy with unlocked iphones. i have the 1g running on tmobile usa. i'm using tmobileweb and mobilechat keeps crashing. once in a while it goes through.

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ellis_v — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:13:35 -0000

i have to agree. right now the i-am-rich app is looking like a better value.

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iName — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:00:46 -0000

this crap is inexcusable. you have been developing this app for a long time and you had a lot of time to prepare while you were awaiting approval from apple. if you're gonna charge for an app make sure its working to its full potential. dont give me that crap about how its only 2.99 (technically its not even really 2.99 when you think about the long term and future upgrades) when i pay for something i want to get my money's worth and seeing how this app doesnt even work yet, i shouldnt have spent a dime.

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Ken — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:51:39 -0000

Better fix these issues fast...especially for a paid app. I feel like I just got screwed since I just paid for something that hasn't worked AT ALL in the past two days. And to my knowledge, there's no way to get a refund.

What the app promises is great. What it's currently delivering is not.

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Ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:48:03 -0000

yes im serious y would i just lie about something so random

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Bummed — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:41:59 -0000

That was happening to me, now it just tells me I've been logging on and off too often and need to wait 10 min before logging on again - no matter how long I wait.

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Anon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:39:56 -0000

Your servers are going to take a beating, and probably will continue to. You guys need to think about long term options. Will you pay for the servers with new releases of MC? Donations?

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Mike — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:39:25 -0000

Reboot.. your Iphone..

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paul — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:33:36 -0000

are you serious?

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Ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:26:37 -0000

MobileChat is no longer working for me. I open it then it crashes. Any fixes?

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parnassus — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:01:36 -0000

I'm a little worried about your dev cycle. It seems you went straight from implementation to release. This lack of attention isn't confined to your load testing, because I'm seeing rendering glitches in the client and poor error handling. Perhaps you could run the login process in a seperate thread, so it doesn't freeze up the UI.

I was about to start coding my own chat client but i saw yours and thought it was quite nifty. Oops. I will see if I have time to lend you guys a hand, otherwise good luck! You have a promising product.

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Anson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:01:19 -0000

Sorry to sound pessimistic. I actually hope I'm wrong, but the fact is you've got a very tall order on your hands.

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Anson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:55:22 -0000

This application isn't going to get any less popular. And I really don't think that you'll be able to handle the number of connections you'll need to. I totally saw this coming.

The only solution for an indie outfit like yourselves, in my mind, is to allow users to install the server software on their own servers that they have access to. They could then specify the server to use in the client on the iPhone. I'm sorry, but when you consider the possibility of needing to handle 100,000+ connections (a low estimate), I just don't see it happening with your centralized system.

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André — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:41:31 -0000

aaaaand we have a new one instead:

if you close mobile chat and reopen it the complete message history becomes unreadable if there was one single ö ä or ü used in it.

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André — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:39:44 -0000

seems like you updated the problem with the unicode support for received messages like öäü... they now come in fine..