Foodle updates

[Andreas Åkre Solberg]

Recently we've made some significant updates to Foodl.org. Let me quickly go through the changes, and then try it for yourself.

Speed speed speed

Foodl.org was really slow, and we're sorry about that. We've added php-apc caching, timezone caching, calendar freebusy caching, and also done some other minor performance improvments.

Delete

Late is better than never. You can now finally delete all the test Foodle-s you made that messes up your frontpage.

Timezone planner

When you create a new Foodle, you'll notice the new option called timezoneplanner.

The timezoneplanner results in a Foodle with 24 time slots, and allow each participant to select which times are most suitable. The time entries is not associated with a date. The use case triggering this functionality is having multiple participants from multiple time zones and you want to find the best spot for meetings throughout the 24 hours of a day.

Yes / No / Maybe

Often users would not say yes or no to a time slot, but instead may be. Answering may be results in a yellow box, and indicates uncertainity.

The Yes / No / Maybe functionality will be turned on automatically for time-based foodles, but you may also override the default setting in the advanced pane:

Entering a Foodle that supports Yes / No / Maybe will look very much a serie of traffic lights :)

And the final list of responses will look like this:

Feedback

All these new features probably introduces some new bugs. Please let me know as soon as possible if you find some, allowing me to fix them before they bother too many.

Kind regards,

Andreas