Hi everyone,

I apologise for the recent spam, it seems all SMF boards (of which ours is one), have been attacked since Nov 10th onwards.

I’ve increased the security against the spammers, and I hope it’s now under control.

After spending about 2 hours trying to manually delete the spam, I realised I was no where near the end (200 spammers, 60 new topics and 180 new messages); so I took the phillistine approach and just deleted everything in the database after a certain date – including new users.

If you’re account or message has been deleted, I’m sorry – please join or repost.

Here’s to a return to sanity on the forum!

Andy

This is set to be the next public release of GTDInbox, added lots of little fixes to the faster code base.

Thanks go out to Matt Buchanan, Nathan Sudds, Andre Branco, Jim Passmore, Simon Stacpoole, and of course, Paul Thompson.

Until I push it to Mozilla, you can download it as an experimental release from http://www.gtdinbox.com

(Email me if there are any probs!)

PS Jim alerted me to the mess in the forum, I’ll get ‘em kicked out.

Install Now from http://gtdinbox.com/
(Be sure to click the lower link for 2.0.11, not the main green button).

This is a pretty major update… but it’s not that easy to tell!

It’s basically running on the brand new GTDInbox 2.1 engine (the final iteration); but with none of the new features. I thought it worthy of a release, because while 2.1 is about to enter beta, the mainstream users will want more speed and stability now.

So, lots of useless code has been removed. Infact 100kb of the downloadable size (and about 300kb internally) – which means GTDInbox’s load times are faster (which in turn means Firefox and Gmail load faster). A lot of major routines have been completely rewritten, yielding about a 50% increase in speed and the same again for memory-usage reduction. You should also notice the Preview box (and the label select box in the Conversation view) load much faster. Finally, all bugs I could find have been fixed, and it is even more friendly toward Gmail’s servers.

So, all round a pretty invisible improvement; but a big improvement nonetheless! Your computer, Firefox and general productivity will be thankful

Let me know if you face any issues with the upgrade.

PS A few bits have been tweaked. The Preview icon double-click shortcuts have changed; the Related functionality when you right-click a label/contact has been dropped. Both weren’t working right before, so I hope no one will mind the inconvenience. They’re both due to return in far superior forms in the imminent 2.1 beta.

As some of you may know, my ‘day job’ (that supports GTDInbox) is a growing company/service called LocallyCompared, which is a local business search engine to compare the most detailed business information and largest number of deals in the UK. We include restaurants, plumbers, accountants, solicitors, electricians and all the other usual suspects. If you’re in the UK, you can use it by going to LocallyCompared, and you can read more about where we’re going with the Blog.

Why am I mentioning this? Other than a little promo, I know a lot of GTDInbox users normally have great feedback, and as this is very early days all feedback is welcome. You can send an email to hello@locallycompared.com – it will be appreciated!