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Please let me know if you get doubles tonight.
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What format are you trying to upload. If you let me know I can add it to our allowed formats list.
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Amiloo – There wouldn’t be room on your phone for all the videos, so an app wouldn’t fix this problem 🙁
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I want to clarify, we aren’t planning an app. The thread was posted to see how many “app” features we could potentially encompass with our web interface.
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Onceuponapole – Could you share your opinions on why an app would make it easier?
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Nope I just fixed the bug she was referring to.
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Mary Nightingale – Please reload the home page of the site then try replying to this thread. I think your concerns have been addressed.
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Thanks Kobajo we’ve put a lot of work into insuring that the mobile experience is complete and accessible.
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Mary Nightingale – That is a very excellent point. Maintaining state is a nice feature and I wish I could recreate that for you. Let me think on this, there may be a way to do it inside the web interface.
It’s not that sites think its perfect this way, its that creating an “App” is a very expensive and time consuming endeavor. Creating an app that recreated the full functionality of this site and would work on both Android and iOS would be just as much effort and expense as creating the website itself. Then, once the app is created, you have to add features to and regression test three platforms every time you make a change.
I would very much like to make an app but the cost would be so prohibitive as to make it functionally impossible.
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grayeyes
– you can currently search for any of our lessons by their name and common aliases.
– You can favorite a lesson or user video– You cannot currently make categories or groups of lessons or sort in a way the site does not sort
The things you can’t do is functionality that is not intrinsic to an app but simply something we would have to develop. I have added them to our idea list and we will evaluate it for inclusion in a future release.
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CapFeb – In general there should be no difference in power consumption between your web browser and an app. However an app has the potential to burn much more power as rather than operating through a standardized piece of system software (your browser) it has complete access to the network interface and can create and use network connections willy nilly (yes I said willy nilly).
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You can add icons to your devices screen with the following instructions:
For android http://mobile-pixels.com/pin-webapp-website-android-homescreen/
For iOS http://lifehacker.com/5809338/add-web-site-bookmarks-to-your-iphones-homescreen
As far as making a site easier to access, UI design is all that really matters, not how its delivered. The big problem I have with apps is that since its an additional architecture to maintain most companies actually reduce functionality in their app.
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A little background on the videos and why they aren’t currently in the the newsletter.
First: we couldn’t fit all the uploads into the email we limited it to five that were randomly selected from that day’s uploads.
Second: They had a tendency to break the emails because of the required layout.
I am exploring notification options but haven’t come to any kind of decision yet.
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The site will accept videos up to 2 gigabytes in size. There was previously a problem with the Silverlight plugin crashing so I have set the flash plugin as default. This problem should be resolved, if its not please let me know so we can troubleshoot and I can try reprioritizing the upload mechanisms. There are 5 different plugins that manage the uploads so that we can cover as many systems as possible, including most phones.
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That is a good point Charley. Offers do need to be better crafted. Perceived value is better if your offer is an add-on rather than a reduction in price.
Get a free $50 individual assessment and training and fitness plan with the purchase of two group lessons. (for example)
Then you can meet Group On’s 50% discount requirement while maintaining your product value and selling something that doesn’t cost you anything.