Fantail — Tag

Since the release of Fantail 0.1 I have been hard at work getting a bunch of new features ready for Fantail 0.2. Of course, I am the only one that’s working on this, so things can take a bit of time to come to fruition, but trust me, I’m working on it!

Fantail 0.2 is about bringing in different views, and that’s exactly what it has got. In the original release, you could only view your Timeline, Replies and Direct Messages from other people (as well as the Catch Up window).

The biggest request I heard from people is to allow for groups, so yes, they’ll be in there.

Plus, search is quite important now, so Fantail 0.2 will support Twitter Search as well, including saved searches.

That’s not all though, but over the coming weeks I’ll let you know more as it comes along. Just believe me when I say, it’s being worked on.

Update If you were still having issues before, I have reuploaded it. It should solve this mess.

Fantail 0.1.1 has just been uploaded. Sorry about the lateness, unfortunately a back-up went awry causing me to rewrite the minimal install script.

This actually fixes two problems:

• Will no longer suffer from the Twitpocalypse. A database conversion needs to take place, so it may take a minute or two to get going at first.
• Has the sending bug fix that affected a number of people at random instances.

Download it now

Oh dear, I’m quite embarrassed about this. I have discovered that Fantail wasn’t quite ready to handle really, really big numbers. The Twitpocalypse has happened, and this has affected Fantail.

Fantail won’t update, and may crash from time to time. You can still send Tweets, but you won’t get any notification that it was sent successfully. The only way to fix this is to release a new version. 0.1.1 will be released later tonight.

After working on it for months, and having a month of testing I’m pleased to finally present the first proper release of Fantail!

I started Fantail purely because I didn’t think the other solutions were adequate enough, they required AIR which didn’t work on my computer, and I thought there were better ways to show tweets.

This first release, admittedly, doesn’t have a bajillion features just yet. It is just the beginning. I have many ideas and I hope to realise them through Fantail. A special thanks goes out to all those who helped test out the release candidate versions and gave feedback and support.

You can download version 0.1 now by clicking the link. Go over the break to read a quick start guide, and any changes made since the release candidates.

Before you begin, please make sure you have the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 installed. If you have Windows Vista, you already have this. If you have Windows XP, visit Windows Update to make sure it is installed.

Download now!
For Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32-bit only) – .Net Framework required

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