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Scheduled Downtime for Songbird Translate Site Today

dan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:01:06 +0000

Update @ 8:30pm: It took a bit longer than expected, but we’re back.

We’re making some changes to the Songbird Translate site today. We expect the site to be down for about three and a half hours. The plan is to take the site offline at approximately 3:00pm (2200h, UTC-8: view in your timezone) and be back online around 6:30pm.

Talkin bout Translations

dan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:54:20 +0000

We’re striving to make it as easy as possible for people to help translate Songbird and we’d like to hear from the community about what works best for you. Some of the questions we have are:

What features are most important to you in a web-based translation tool?
Do you prefer translating online via a web interface or downloading files containing all the strings used by the application and editing them offline? If the latter, do you have a preferred file format and do you use any existing tools to manage offline translations?

Please add your feedback as comments on this blog post.

Single Sign-on for Add-ons and Translate Users

dan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:24:45 +0000

In order to support upcoming integrations between our web properties and Songbird we’ve started to consolidate all of our user accounts (which currently exist across a myriad of backends). Our goal is to support a single user account that can work across all of our current and future services.

As a first step, we’ve just enabled single sign-on for the Add-ons and Translate sites. For existing users of these services there are two noticeable changes:

you are now required to log in using your email address instead of your username
logging into one of these sites automatically logs you into the other (and vice versa)

If you have any questions feel free to contact us and if you notice any hiccups please file a bug.

Scheduled Downtime for Add-ons and Translate Sites Today

dan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:25:06 +0000

Update @ 4:10pm: we’re back online!

We’re making some scheduled changes to the Songbird Add-ons and Translate sites today. We expect the sites to be down for an hour at most. The plan is to take them offline at approximately 3:30pm (2230h, UTC-8: view in your timezone) and be back online by 4:30 pm.