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Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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Paul from Geckoboard here. Would love to hear how we can do better. Happy to respond here or you can shoot me a mail, paul at geckoboard.com

All in all, minor issues, but: you filter out "target" attributes on URLs. I have links in my dashboard that I want to automatically open in another window so I don't close the dashboard window. Not sure why "target" is a banned attribute. Also, public loop URLs don't appear to actually loop: I have 2 dashboards both added to the public loop, and nothing I seem to do will make them do that in either Firefox 11, Chrom…

Thanks for the feedback.

The filtering of the "target" attribute is down to an overly aggressive attribute whitelist but I've created and story and that's being added now.

Looping issue - it's working for us and we've had no other reports of failure. Can you check the Sharing URLs tab under the account link to ensure that the dashboards in question are enabled for read-only viewing? This is off by default for security & privacy considerations but agree that the UX is currently sub-optimal. If you're still having problems then just ping me a mail: paul at geckoboard.com and I'll look into it.

We're just about to make the push API public for everyone (early next week), in the meantime feel free to shoot me a mail with your account deets and I'll enable it for you.

Re: Show HN: Ducksboard launched a new API and is giving away free subscriptions

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I don't see any data in the widgets, the javascript console tells me that the websocket closes and tries to reconnect every 10 seconds or so. Browser is chromium 18, let me know if you need any more information.

Hi manveru. Your username (email) in Ducksboard would help us track down the problem. You can create a support ticket using the application's menu "Support" option to handle this communication and future question we may need to ask.

No answer after three days.

Ticket is https://support.ducksboard.com/requests/824

[Edit: I just noticed that this isn't even visible to people not logged in, I'm not even gonna comment on what I think about that practice...]

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