Ok, maybe not, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve finally released it. Phonese3 got to a point where it was working better than the current version so I released it. I’ll continuously add to it which means you should expect the next feature in 2014 given that the world doesn’t end in 2012.

With the new release, there are a few things you should know.

• Real user accounts. You have a username and password now. You’re going to have to contact me (twitter, jabber, irc, email, phone) to get your password. You won’t be able to submit pictures until you log in and find out the new address to submit to.
• The email to submit pictures has changed. Everyone has their own unique e-mail address to send pictures to. This will enable you to allow multiple addresses to submit pictures to your account. Also, you can control what addresses the system will accept pictures from.
• The Blackberry Pearl works. If you used a Blackberry Pearl, or probably any other Blackberry for that matter, phonese2 didn’t work for you. It will now.
• Your email address and avatars. Sign up for a gravatar account and add the private email address you have in your profile. The public email address is just if you want people to contact you.
• latest.php The address has changed. It’s now http://phonese.cx/api/latest/?username=username
• Bugs and Feature Requests. Throw them in the trac. http://code.twi.gs/phonese3
• User Subdomains They were fun, but served no real purpose. Also not using them turns phonese into a big content site. Maybe one day it’ll get some page rank from the google.

That’s all I can think of right now. I’m sure there’s more. At some point I’ll throw up an FAQ.

Enjoy.

A lot has happened in those years, but one thing has stayed the same. The release is just around the corner.

Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s true this time. Steve has been helping me bust out code and phonese is starting to come together. Tonight I finished changing the URL scheme (no more wildcard domains in hopes for some more Google love as well as easier to code) and threw together a user index page.

I’m hoping that sometime in the first half of February there will be a new Phonese for all.

If you want to see if I’m lying this time you can watch the changes on the phonese3 trac.

I could have finished it. I had plenty of time, but I didn’t. If you want, I can name off all of the things that clouded my mind instead of concentrating on anything productive, but I’m sure you’re as tired of hearing about them as I am clearing my mind of them.

For now, it’s time to eat some Mexican food, and watch a movie in a language I can’t understand. Today is still a good day as long as I say it is.

I originally started writing it in Django, but my work thought I need to write my own web framework for them, so I decided to stop using Django, and start it using Mudfish. About a year after I started Mudfish, work changed their mind and decided to go with Django (like I had originally proposed). So here I am, writing it again with Django. During that time, Django released a new version and broke backwards compatibility so I decided to just scrap a lot of the old views and rewrite them from scratch.

While I would love to rival Duke Nukem Forever for hitting release dates (phonese3 was scheduled to be released on 6/6/06) I would rather have a nice, working version of phonese.

You can track my procrastination by following the changelog: http://phonese.cx/CHANGELOG.txt