Mfop Fever

More people are using the mfop system than I expected (at least this early).

It's making me all glad 'n stuff.

So far there are between 13 and 18 active moblogers using it and every day someone experiences a problem :-)

Some of these problems are because of poor instructions on the registrations page... I'll fix that up as soon as possible. Other problems are quickly solvable as soon as I notice it... for example I didn't have it set up to handle Japanese until someone tried to post Japanese, and I didn't have it set up top do text only (no image) posts until a few people tried that. Next I have to make it able to upload multiple images to one post... because someone tried that yesterday. Now that I know people are using it, I'll try my best to get it working for as many people.

Paul from IN-duce has written a very nice little blurb about Mfop at his own site and over at MarginWalker, and has requested support for Gallery. It shouldn't be a problem at all. I'll download Gallery soon as I get a chance and set it up. Or if Paul can give me access to post photos to his gallery in a test account, I can forgoe the trouble of setting it up on my server. (although it looks like something I might want to use anyway).

Seeing as I will be on vacation for two weeks from Friday, I'll try to get as much done before that so as many people as possible can moblog without problems, and without waiting 2 weeks for me to get home and fix whatever bugs I programmed in in the beginning.

Carsten, The first mfop Guineapig, is also one of the planners for the First International Moblog Conference happening in Tokyo in July. He asked me to talk about mfop a bit and I said it sounds like fun... I didn't realize the conference was such a big deal at the time... I guess now it sounds like more fun.

On my to do list in no particular order:

1. Find out why people's posts are not going to the correct category
2. Find out why the trackback link doesn't show up when people want it to
3. Spruce up the Mfop page with the fity design and logo that Kristen whipped up for me.
4. Re-write the instructions
5. Set up support for Gallery
6. Allow multiple images
7. Add link list of people using mfop
8. Clean up code so I wont be embarrased to let other people look at it (and host it on their server too if they like)
9. Check through my emails and make sure I didn't miss anything for this to do list
10. Figure out why Jeffrey can't post from his Sony T68i (no I didn't forget about you Jeffrey)