Comments on: Tweetcraft: Nice Idea, Poor Execution

By: Shadow

Shadow — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:13:40 +0000

Horrible idea all around, if you need explaining on why its horrible than you are most likely a tool or a little preteen girl.

By: Wobin

Wobin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:03:13 +0000

If there were a purely ingame (Completely separate from the real Twitter) twitter client, would you use it? What would you want to be able to do with it?

By: Lulyenaya

Lulyenaya — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:23:15 +0000

You neglected to mention another BIG problem with Tweetcraft: its inability to remember settings! I don’t want to clog anybody’s feed, ESPECIALLY my own, with “Luly has entered Dalaran!” or “Luly has left Desolace!” and that kind of stuff, so I immediately went in and turned all of that off. Imagine my surprise next session when all of those boxes I distinctly recalled unchecking were checked again.

Having a program force a UI reload to work is an unavoidable annoyance.
Having a program defaulting to autospam is rude.
Having a program unable to remember its users’ custom settings is poor planning.

I don’t have time for a poorly planned, rude and unavoidably annoying program.
That gets fixed though, and I’m so back.

By: Psynister

Psynister — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:42:48 +0000

I’m with Grimtorn and the others here. I’ve been excited about mixing Twitter and WoW since I first found them, and while the different products have looked cool, they have turned out to be disappointing.

I haven’t actually put tweetcraft to work just yet, though I do have it downloaded and ready to go. When I saw it was a .exe file I paused and decided not to move forward until other people had tried it. So far I’m not seeing a whole lot of good about it except from those that use only a small portion of it’s functionality.

If I can only use a small portion of a set of tools though, then I’d really rather not bother with it in the first place. I’m not about to wait for a UI reload, and I don’t enjoy having to alt+tab back and forth either. That’s why I don’t bother even opening using twitter when I’m at home.

Sadly, I don’t think tweetcraft, in it’s current state, is going to do anything for me. And I’m not entirely sure that anything else will either. For now I’ll just kick back as I always have and wait for someone else to try for a stronger product.
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By: Puhoi

Puhoi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:04:40 +0000

@Lumz He acknowledged that in the article… “Unfortunately, not much can be done about it as this is the way WoW is wired.”
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By: Grimtorn

Grimtorn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:35:53 +0000

Likewise, I was also disappointed in the actual product after having seen the video. Premise good, and I’d agree, execution poor.

I’ll stick with alt-tabbing, typing an update in twhirl, and then alt-tabbing back into the game. Takes a matter of seconds, and if I’m doing it when we’re looting a boss (or conversely, I’m lying dead), then there’s no issue.
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By: Ripdog

Ripdog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:49:03 +0000

This is one area where having a mac is a BIG advantage. Since 3.0.3, the mac client of WoW has run in “pseudo-fullscreen” mode, where it fills the screen, hides the dock/menu bar, disables standard shortcuts – but it doesn’t take over the screen.

WoW only disables things like the Cmd-Tab switcher, or the spotlight command, and this means you can install an application switcher with a non-standard activation shortcut (I use quicksilver, <3 quicksilver) and you can switch in and out of WoW *instantly*. No, I mean instantly.

There is no difference from switching from Mail to Firefox. Because WoW isn't in real fullscreen, if you can find a way of switching apps, WoW acts just like a window, but it's still full-size in the background and you can switch back instantly and it all works near flawlessly.

This also means you can have windows on top of WoW, and they can stay there while you play, if you set them to Always on top (I use Afloat for this). Shitty twitter addons away! I enjoy using this to watch anime while the RL prattles on yet again about the next boss in Naxx25. Oh yeah, Aloft also does transparency, if you want that.

The "near flawless" part is caused by WoW's lack of awareness about spaces, if you are not on WoW's space and you switch to WoW, you will stay on your current space, the screen will lock just like normal, but WoW will still be on another space! This means you have to switch out again and manually move to WoW's space, but it's easy enough to work around.

Quicksilver: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list
Afloat: http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

By: Lumz

Lumz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:38:54 +0000

Gotta be honest Matticus… kinda shitty to call it a poor execution when in fact it’s a BLIZZARD imposed limitation from within the game client. The addon author I’m sure did everything in his/her power to ensure a seamless experience. Is it his/her fault that the UI must be reloaded for every external file update?

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:23 +0000

Just do what I did, buy a second monitor.
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By: Lassirra

Lassirra — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:58:23 +0000

It would be nice (and likely easier to manage) if there were a twitter add-on for xfire that interfaced much like the other features of xfire (hotkeys to pull up specific features without having to alt-tab out).
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