Hi Folks,

As many of you Facebook users may know, Facebook is in the process of rolling out some pretty dramatic changes to their website.  They have been kind enough to make most of their changes available prior to
release for testing, but of course some things change along the way. Fortunately, to make your experience with transitioning to the new pages as seamless as possible, we've been able to make several updates to Flock before the new design is even generally available.

Nevertheless, we know of two issues with the new Facebook that we're still actively working to address.  The first is that you can't update your Facebook status through Flock's people sidebar when using the new Facebook.  Secondly, we're in the process of tweaking how Flock's drag-n-drop works with Facebook's overhaul of their Wall feature. 

We hope to have fixes rolled out in the next week or so.  Thanks in advance for your patience and keep on Flocking!

Mike

Hi Folks,

Second Update: Just as were deploying the Automatic Update tonight, Facebook changed their site again. Fortunately we were able to handle this change with a simple Web Detective fix that has already been deployed. If you're running Flock 1.1.4 and are still experiencing issues with Facebook sidebar issue, please follow the following instructions

Update: If you've got to Facebook and can't wait for the automatic update, Flock 1.1.4 is available for download at http://www.flock.com. All of your previous configuration information will still be available to you after installing 1.1.4. We're still targeting for later this evening to have the automatic update available.

As some of you might have noticed, the Facebook People sidebar is not populating with your friends at the moment. We are aware of the problem and are working on a fix to accommodate the Facebook changes.

We anticipate having a fix pushed out very shortly. Flock will update itself with the fix and you will simply need to restart your browser.

Thanks for your patience.

The Flock Team

Hi Folks,

We've recently released a patch to Flock 1.0 that allows Flock to run on Mac OS 10.3.9.  While we're happy to be able to make this fix available, Mac OS X 10.3.9 is no longer supported by Apple.  In fact Mozilla’s Firefox, the code that Flock is built upon, will no longer support Mac OS 10.3.9 in their upcoming release of Firefox 3.0 this spring.

If you are a Mac OS 10.3.9 user, you will continue to receive Flock security patches and enhancements for the next couple of months.  Please note that at some point in the near future we will no longer be able to provide ongoing support for Flock on this version of Mac OS.

Keep on Flocking. Love to the Macs.

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Hi Folks,

As is customary with most software products when a new version is released, the older versions get phased out. Now that Flock has released 0.9 (with much fanfare) and we're now well on our way to releasing 1.0 (aka Falcon), it is time to retire 0.7 (aka Cardinal). We plan to officially end support this month.

By retiring 0.7, Flock will no longer make maintenance or security patches available for this version. This is really for two reasons. First, we’re aggressively focusing our collective brainpower by pushing towards the completion of our 1.0 release. Secondly, our 0.7 version is based on an older, unsupported version of Firefox (1.5), so as with all good things, it’s time for us to focus our efforts against continuing to deliver great innovative features in our latest releases.
 
We strongly encourage you to download the latest 0.9 version of Flock here.

All of your stored Favorites, Media Streams, Account log-in credentials, and history will be automatically transferred during this upgrade process.

In the next couple of days you'll be getting an automatic upgrade notice where you'll have the option to upgrade to the latest version of 0.9. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to the latest version so that you can take advantage of all the latest feature enhancements.

Click here for a chart comparing all of the feature improvements between Flock 0.7 and 0.9.

We have greatly improved the usability of our latest version. The feedback from our users has been overwhelmingly positive.

We’re working hard to continually delight you with great new features in the latest 0.9 release of Flock. We greatly value your feedback hope that you’ll continue to provide your extremely valuable comments to us by submitting them at at http://www.flock.com/feedback. We read every item that comes in and are constantly making fixes and improvements based on your feedback.

For all those folks who've been with us since Flock’s 0.7 release and before, we thank you for your loyalty, and hope that you’ll remain with us for the next releases. We’re on a roll!

Thx,
Mike

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Hi All,

UPDATE: Thanks to the good folks at Wordpress.com everything is now working as it should be. "Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before".

We've recently experienced some integration issues with two of the services provided with Flock.  Some of you may have noticed some odd behavior when logging in and activating Flock with Wordpress where you see the following error:

"ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser"

Wordpress is actively investigating these issues and we hope to have a resolution soon. If you're already logged into Wordpress you should be able to blog to your heart's content.

We also noticed that Flock's integration with Ma.gnolia's favorites sharing service had stopped working for a brief period of time.  Many thanks to Todd at Ma.gnolia for helping to clear this up.

One of the most difficult things to accommodate with Flock is the ever changing web sites that we integrate with.  We do our best to stay on top of these and get any issues resolved as soon as possible.  Thanks for your patience.

Thx,
Mike Dosik
Director, Engineering Services

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Hi Folks,

Just a reminder that we're going to do a weekend Flock community test day this weekend on Saturday, 5/12.  0.8 is coming together quite nicely and it would be great to have a bunch of people put it through the paces.  We'll be on the IRC channel, #flock, starting at 8:00am PDT.  Hope to see you there!

http://wiki.flock.com/index.php/Cormorant_Test_Days#Cormorant_Test_Day_Information

Thx,
Mike

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Hi Folks,

Due to popular demand we're going to try a weekend edition of the community test day this weekend on May 12 from 8:00am PDT to 2:00pm PDT.  Several of us will be online during that time to answer any questions.  In addition to just doing the Flock things you do we'd like to get some focused attention on testing configuration migration from Cardinal (0.7.x) to Cormorant (0.8.x). 

More details will be populated on this page shortly.

Thx,
Mike Dosik
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Hi Folks,

Just wanted to thank all those that participated in the Flock Community test day this past Monday with *nods* to Guillermo, jsuplido and ChrisVance for the extensive time they dedicated.

There were some really good bugs found and we got some great feedback on the usability and potential improvements that could be made to Flock.

I know several of you have requested a weekend test day.  If we were going to hold one in the next several weeks or so, which weekend day would you prefer and at what time?

Sat, May 5th
Sun, May 6th
Sat, May 12th
Sun, May 13th

Thx,
Mike
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Hi Folks,

I sent an email out to several mailing lists but I was remiss in posting to our blog.   Please join us for our next community test day on Monday, 4/23, from 10:00am to 7:00pm.  We're closing in on wrapping up development of the next release which will be the public 0.7 (aka Cardinal) upgrade and we'd love to have your help shaking out some bugs and putting the product
through it's paces.

We've added a couple of features since the last test day and since we made the 0.8.0 developer preview available including a dashboard called My World, an updated theme, better messaging to make Flock features more discoverable and a new accounts & services sidebar.

Generic test day information is here: http://wiki.flock.com/index.php/Flock_Community_Test_Days

Specific release notes are here which we'll be keeping up to date through
out the week. http://wiki.flock.com/index.php/Cormorant_Test_Day_No._2_Release_Notes

Flock wouldn't be where it is without the amazing help of the Flock Community.  If you have any questions feel free to email me, mike at flock.com, or evan, evan at flock.com.  Hope to see you all on Monday!

Hi Folks,

Mozilla has released their 1.5.0.11 patch for Firefox. We have incorporated this patch and have made 0.7.12 available for download from the website (localized versions should be available on Thursday). We expect to turn on the automatic update sometime on Thursday as well.

Thx,

Mike

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