The new idek is live

That’s right, last night idek got a much needed update. At 12:40AM I moved it over to the latest software. Part of this upgrade also involved switching over to a new machine hosted at slicehost. The software upgrade and server swap occurred without any idek downtime. All links were created and url forwarded without a hitch. Woohoo.

We got your user accounts right here

One thing that a lot of people of have been waiting for is user accounts. Well, we finally have them at idek. That’s right, you can create a user account in a couple of seconds and idek will automatically pull in all the urls that it was tracking for you previously. It will also go out and pull in any idek urls from your tweets.

Did you create some urls with beak or in another browser while you weren’t logged in? No worries, idek will pull in any idek urls that were sent out via tweets - it checks all user accounts nightly.

So what else?

There were a number of small bugs and annoyances fixed as well as some general cleanup and spiffying up of the metrics page.

A lot of time was spent converting idek over to a new platform and new database. Together this gives us acccess to a much richer set of data and much more solid and extensible backend. This means that you’ll be seeing a lot of new features coming out over the next few days, weeks, and months.

Thanks for using idek, the exciting times (and features) are still ahead!