Favor Development 

Favor is currently in beta-stage. Our development team spends all day to fix bugs, but also creating new features.

Here's a brief list of the things we intend to create:

  • iOS -support. Favor already works well when viewing different content but creating favors with iPhone is another thing.
  • FullScreen button for the video-player. DONE! 
  • Publisher can decide whether to include direct download links
  • Ability to use custom css-styles. This one is easier said than done but that's what's coming - eventually. DONE! 
  • Prev | Next -buttons for quick link to read more Favors from the same user DONE!
  • Some sort of homepage-banner -which a user can create and use with Favors and Favor homepage. DONE!
  • The ability to create RF:s for many users at once. I would like to be able to send and RF to my biggest supporters when I publish something worth their time.
  • The ability to create automatic RF-campaings, for example: $2 RF every time a user X publishes a new Favor.

Here's a list of the things we intend to improve/fix:

  • Overall customization. For example profile info.
  • IE8 support (IE9 is ok, but 8 is way too slow)
  • Editor. I think it's fine, but sadly I might be in the minority -Jaakko
  • Returning the Favor should be simple as possible. We have some ideas on how to streamline the process.
  • More payment methods. SMS, Google, Amazon, more CreditCards and perhaps...gasp... bitcoin :)
  • Overall graphical layout & UI
  • A bunch of little annoying bugs that are never that easy to fix...

If there's a feature you're missing, please let us know. Or a bug that's bugging you.

If you report it here as a Return, we will pay your Favor Value back.

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favorcompany
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Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

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ilkka
Economist.
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4.6

A few important bugs:

When deleting a word using ctrl+backspace, this editor deletes the preceding word and the space before it. It should only delete the word and leave the space intact. It actually looks as if the space was preserved, but when starting to type a new word the space disappears.

When doing an “undo” after deleting a word, the cursor is transported to mysterious places in this editor. Quite annoying.

If one selects “back” at the confirmation dialog after clicking the “Return the favor” button and then proceeds to publish the text anyway, the text apparently disappears and one is transported back to the “All in Favor” view.

A few suggestions for improvement:

It would be convenient if posting Youtube videos could be done simply by copying the URL of the video, rather than the longer embed code. Not a big deal, of course.

Automatic updates about new Favors should be posted to the creator’s Facebook .

At some point it might be useful if all updates to a blog or Youtube channel could be automatically sent to Favor via an RSS feed or something.

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Jaakko
I'm Jaakko Saarenketo, the founder & CEO of Favor Company Inc. My other favorname is Partajaska, which is a lot less formal.
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1.7

I just tested with win XP + firefox and the first bug you described is gone!

The Undo-issue might be better, but there's still some funny business.

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At the moment there's couple very handy tools for automatic posts and updates:

 RSS-feed icon in case anyone reading this is wondering...

You can set the publish date favor-specifically, so you can create a weeksworth of releases at one time. And, since every user has an RSS feed, you can use tools like feedburner to transform that RSS-feed into a machine which post automatically to Facebook and Twitter. It also has a subscribe with email-function.

If you've missed our last update report, please read it. I think we really improved a lot of stuff.

Thanks again for your input. We always look forward to any comments, suggestions... or anything :)

-Jaakko

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1.6

A few important bugs:

When deleting a word using ctrl+backspace, this editor deletes the preceding word and the space before it. It should only delete the word and leave the space intact. It actually looks as if the space was preserved, but when starting to type a new word the space disappears.

I agree, but it doesn't happen on my browser (Chrome, OSX). I'll notify the testers to see if they can reproduce the problem.

When doing an “undo” after deleting a word, the cursor is transported to mysterious places in this editor. Quite annoying.

Thanks. That is annoying!

If one selects “back” at the confirmation dialog after clicking the “Return the favor” button and then proceeds to publish the text anyway, the text apparently disappears and one is transported back to the “All in Favor” view.

Thanks. We'll look into it!

A few suggestions for improvement:

It would be convenient if posting Youtube videos could be done simply by copying the URL of the video, rather than the longer embed code. Not a big deal, of course.

I agree. When we have time :)

Automatic updates about new Favors should be posted to the creator’s Facebook .

Yes. It would be helpful. Automatic updates are a little risky because Facebook might more easily consider it spam. But I think sooner or later we'll develop that feature.

At some point it might be useful if all updates to a blog or Youtube channel could be automatically sent to Favor via an RSS feed or something.

Maybe. But when you have Favor, why use a blog? It's so 2010's. :)
That feature will probably come up in the future when we open up the API for publishing Favor. It would be cool to create Favors just by sending the content to a specific email-address.

Huge thanks for you comments and suggestions!
-Jaakko

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Vilhelm
Hello there! I`m Ville Saarenketo, but I´m also known as Vilhelm Valloittaja(Conqueror) and Vilhelm Valittaja(Complainer). Cheers!
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1.1

Pöö!
Aina pitää painaa päivitä nappulaa kun on kirjautunut sisään. Ei kovin vakava juttu mutta prompi olis ilman. Toisekseen, pystyykö Favorissa selaamaan julkaistua tavaraa ihan julkaisujärjestyksessä? Minusta on hyvä että presettinä on se juurikin tämä, että mitä sponsoroidumpi teos niin sitä ylempänä. Mutta ois jees jos ois vaihtoehto selata eri laillakin, esim juuri julkaisujärjestyksessä. 

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Stina
I'm Stina Varkkola, the co-founder of Favor Company Inc. I take care of the marketing and the distribution and all kinds of co-operations. My personal account in Favor is StinaSateenkaarina. See you around!
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0.9

Pöö.
Tuo refreshaus-ongelma tulee poistumaan jahka päästään nostamaan ankkurit ja irtautumaan betasta ja .fiistä.

Luotujen sisältöjen selaaminen aikajärjestyksessä on mahdollista niin All in Favor -sivulla kuin käyttäjien profiileissakin, kun valitsee oikeasta reunasta All, Favors tai Returns ja sitten Recent. 
Aukeavan sivun tuloksia pystyy alareunan nuolista kahlaamaan syvemmälle historiaan.

:) 

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Choose an amount that feels right. Even a small amount can be a huge Favor!
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Manundi
Hi! I'm not a new Favor User. I have updated my profile yet and this will be the place where I tell something about myself.
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0.3

Hienoa työtä!

 1. maksaessa oli ongelmia. Saatoin maksaa kaksi kertaa! painoin op logoa, mutta mitään ei tapahtunut. Sitten painoin visa nappia ja laitoin visanumerot, sitten avautuikin osuuspankin tunnistus! Ainakin siinä kohti ohjeistus oli sekava.

2. Värit. Heti ensimmäisenä iski silmään että käytössä olevat värit luovat sivustolle halvan tunnelman. Esittelyvideon ja Logon graafisuus loivat lupauksen jostain hienommasta... Mieleeni tulee ilmaiset wiki-sivustot kuten wikispaces.com. Muutenkin ulkoasu on jotenkin wikimäinen. 

3. Hieno, että favoreita (r) :D voi säätää ja muokata  niin monella tavalla, mutta kehittelisin favorin muokkausta vielä käyttäjäysävällisemmäksi (yksinkertaisemmaksi?) Esim. Kuva, jonka lisäsin tuli esiin aivan liian suurena. Se täytyi itse osata pienentää. Ehkä se olisi voinut muuntautua palikaksi, niinkuin alkuperäisen facebookin aikaan ne wall palikat.

4. Tiedostojen uploadaus ikkuna ja osa muitakin ikkunoita sekavan näköisiä

5. Kun olin maksanut, näin kuitin. Kuitti sivulta ei päässyt pois. (?)

6. Development chatin tunnukset?

7. kuva, video, ääni, exe/dmg logot tossa sivulla ovat hyvässä paikassa ja aika selkeät. Minun silmään ne ovat kuitenkin vähän rumat/karut. S- kysyi: mitä kukka tarkoittaa?

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Manundi
Hi! I'm not a new Favor User. I have updated my profile yet and this will be the place where I tell something about myself.
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0.1

Ei tartte vastata! Toivottavasti mun havainnoista on apua. Käyttäkää se vastaamiseen meneväkin aika tämän kehittämiseen niin hyvä tulee!

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Partajaska
I'm Jaakko Saarenketo. I hope you like Favor! We sure do!
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0.2

1. Ei avadu eka silmäyksellä (mikä tämä on), pitäis varmaan nähdä suoraan nuo jo katsottavissa olevat favorit, vaikka ei olis logannukkaan vielä..

2. Ei avaudu tokallakaan silmäyksellä..

3. Tienesti mahdollisuus pitäisi kertoa vielä selkeämmin

4. Tää maksupolitiikka on mielenkiintoinen..en tiedä toimiiko niin että voi lahjoittaa rahaa vaikka ei olisikaan logannut sisään? ja ladannut tilille rahaa.. Esim jok mobiilimaksu voisi olla kätevä? Voi olla että tää toimiiki niin..

5. Jotain ulkoasujuttuja, käyttistä vois viilailla..

Mutta loppujen lopuksi ihan toimiva ja selkeäkin sittenkun ymmärtää mistä kyse, mutta tohon ensikertatlijan ymmärtämiseen satsaisin itse vielä resursseja.

Tälläista kommenttia tuli eräältä huippu ammattilaiselta :) Otamme maanantaina puheeksi.

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ilkka
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0.2

Is it a feature or a bug that continuing a thread becomes progressively more expensive, since to reply you need to pay the minimum sum to all previous posters? Of course much of the cost is returned if you have been a participant in the thread earlier, so it's not a big deal.

I tried to post with a smaller sum going to each earlier comment so that my netcost would be $ 0,1, but it failed. The error message received was partly blocked by other UI elements:

 After the error message I was unable to add pictures or video to the post. Perhaps for unrelated reasons. After refreshing I recreated my post and I managed to add pictures, but couldn't resize them except horizontally. Trying to post resulted in an error "J is null", after which I was sent back to the "All in Favor" view.

This is with Firefox 4.0.1 using Windows 7.

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favorcompany
The official user of Favor Company Inc.
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0.1

It's is a feature. But, like you said, usually a big part of the cost gets returned back to you.

$0.1 is the smallest amout you can reward one Favor. And considering a chain or Favors and Returns has many Favors, the smallest total amount is (the size of the chain) * $0.10.

Having the Value on only increments of $0.10 helps the counting and prevents the need for smaller amount than $0.01. It's all a part of the big plan :)

Anyway, thanks for the error messages you posted. Those aren't features but clear errors and they'll be fixed soon.

-Jaakko

RF (Return the Favor)
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Joni
Developer at Favor Company Inc.
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0.1

Kiitoksia palautteesta. Mikäli selkeitä epäloogisuuksia ja virheitä ilmaantuu, kehitysosasto ottaa kaiken palautteen mielellään vastaan. "Quick Feedback" on helpoin ja nopein tie antaa palautetta. Sähköpostilla info@favor.org. Tukichatissä ei tällähetkellä aina ole työntekijää päivystämässä, mutta sieltäkin kannattaa käydä huhuilemassa. 

Aina saa myös kertoa "Returnilla" virheistä, kuten tässä tapauksessa. Palautteen laadusta & virheen vakavuudesta tai hyvästä ideasta riippuen vastapalvelukset on hyvinkin mahdollisia.

- Joni 

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Vilhelm
Hello there! I`m Ville Saarenketo, but I´m also known as Vilhelm Valloittaja(Conqueror) and Vilhelm Valittaja(Complainer). Cheers!
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0.1

Terveisiä yhdeltä kaverilta, joka juuri kuuli Favorista ensimmäistä kertaa: 

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voi juku
tämä juttu on hyvä juttu
Ei voi olla huomaamatta että tähän on käytetty työtä
paljon

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