Found a couple shortcuts so I should have all instances updated in about an half hours. Your instance is alive but please do not use it until I'm done. … [Read more...]

All instances have been updated and are restarting - this will take a while - and then they must be individually reconfigured.  Please do NOT use your instance until I give the all clear.  I am "on track" but it will still be some hours yet before it is done. … [Read more...]

It's about midnight GMT.  I took the cluster down about 20 minutes ago and have been exporting databases, updating schemas and other geeky stuff like that. You will likely see your instance appear online - and even appear to function if you try .... PLEASE DON'T.  :) I'll let you know here and via … [Read more...]

As I write this update very late Thursday, very early Friday, I have completed the tests required to confirm the release of version 2 late Saturday night -- about 40 or so hours from now.  You should have received an email with some of the details.  Email support for a copy if you missed it. Your … [Read more...]

Amazon had an extensive failure in in both the EC2 and RDS services this weekend that resulted in having to do a restart of all the machines that host ResultFlow.  This is now complete and the monitoring service is showing all green. … [Read more...]

UPDATE: The entire ResultFlow farm has to be rebooted which takes a 2-4 hours so we are still in the midst of recovery at this point.  I will publish an "all clear" when it's done. During this weekend, Amazon web services had several inter-related connectivity and power problems in the north east … [Read more...]

Sometime tomorrow evening, the 7th of May, your instance will be upgraded to fix two significant bugs and add several really cool enhancements.  These are summarized below - please read the first one carefully! Single Sign-on There are two classes of ResultFlow users - owners and workers.  The … [Read more...]

A very cool update to the Schedule workflow was just rolled. We want to get this into production over the weekend, but there was a bug in backward compatibility so it was delayed until that could be fixed. The online help - via the button in the upper right corner of the software - is up to date. … [Read more...]

A minor update rolled out this morning to fix one long term bug and to update the MTurk API. The bug was in the HTML editor and would cause the last change before saving to be lost if it was a markup change. The most common problem was (sadly) also the most common use. :( Specifically, open an … [Read more...]

Early this week I found that many of you that have been using ResultFlow for the longest time have older style Persona dashboards. These should have been updated already but some were not. I'm fixing these today by hand so you will see the change sometime over the next few hours. The immediate … [Read more...]