System Maintenance Update:
We will be performing system maintenance on both Saturday, April 22nd (from 6-8pm Pacific) and on Sunday April 23rd (from 5-7pm Pacific). Although the amount of time necessary to complete the maintenance may be less, the system will be largely unavailable until we have completed the process.
Saturday's maintenance is purely a hardware upgrade. We will be enhancing some of our core switches, which will allow us additional growth while improving our backend performance.
Sunday's maintenance on the other hand, will be a major software upgrade. A couple of the highlights include:
- Reduced login time - making it faster than ever to access you goowy account
- Enhanced mail view, with both classic and modern views, and resizeable panels
- Support for additional folders
- Public release of IM and File Storage - Although we still consider this functionality to be Beta, we are opening it up to all of our users. Thanks to our Alpha users for your great feedback!
- Automated contact import for AOL and support for manual import for Hotmail
- Guest accounts - allowing your friends to preview goowy functionality prior to creating a real account - and simplification of the account creation process - this should make it easier than ever to get them to join in the fun!
- And as always, some bug fixes thanks to comments that our members have submitted to us!
We'll be looking forward to hearing your comments and suggestions once you've had a chance to explore... have fun!
Yay! Can't wait for the updates. I got the first comment too! Woohoo!
Posted by: Brian | April 19, 2006 at 10:21 PM
Enhanced mail? Now I'm REALLY interested? Do we have flags? Filters? A Folder view? This could be Christmas in April.
Posted by: Ryan Stewart | April 20, 2006 at 12:13 AM
I just can't wait for the yummiest "goowy(re) mail"...I 'm lovin' it. Thanks for the good news...WOw! Goowy....no!no! 'My Goowy' is really rocking.
Thank u...Gowwy team
Posted by: Madhu | April 20, 2006 at 03:13 AM
Bring it on am ready for it,your outdoing yourselves you over achievers,this is like a drug i can't believe how am so addicted....monday can't come soon enough...Yay Goowy is the real "G" mail...the saga continues...am rambling stop me... am too excited...hahaha and fourth to post not bad ehh....see you monday.
Posted by: Bobby | April 20, 2006 at 06:19 AM
Will the new mail, allow me to mark all my messages as read as i have 2000 unread messages.
Posted by: Alistair Attrill | April 20, 2006 at 12:14 PM
why not take off the 'Search' in the navigation bar! when there r minis to do it.
By the way, wat abt the goowylovers community? is its making over?
Posted by: Madhu / Help | April 20, 2006 at 11:12 PM
don't know if this has been asked before, but will there be a filesize limit for file storage?
Posted by: me | April 21, 2006 at 10:41 AM
i can't wait!!!
Posted by: xSxCx | April 21, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Thanks a million times.Now I will be able to chat with my friends who have yahoo accounts.
I cant wait for Sunday night.
it's like being tied up and wanting to have a candy that's just out of reach.
To my School:
Hey! i'm on leave and wont be coming to school on monday.
Posted by: Bhargav | April 22, 2006 at 03:50 AM
I'm looking forward!
Posted by: Jorge Watanabe | April 22, 2006 at 04:57 AM
goowy rocks...
make improvements for music playback(palylist)...
thats it for now...
Posted by: arun | April 22, 2006 at 03:45 PM
We are working on it now and it should be ready tonight...this is a very exciting release for us! Let me try to answer some questions you guys have asked.
1. File size upload limit will be 10mb - you can increase it with a premium account which we will roll out in 30 - 45 days.
2. We will have support for more folders and a 3 column (new outlook) or classic email views. Filters and other major enhancements to mail are coming in the next 30 days.
3. We will add mark all as read soon :)
4. We are working on a goowy community and forum - it should be coming soon :)
Let us know what you think when it comes out tonight!
- alex
Posted by: Alex | April 23, 2006 at 04:19 PM
U people are really rocking the big things on the buisiness.
I'm the first to comment after the update ..amn't I?
Posted by: Madhu | April 24, 2006 at 12:36 AM
The story looks damn cool to interface...but..is it looking so robust?
Posted by: Madhu | April 24, 2006 at 12:46 AM
this is awesome! good job guys!
Posted by: xSxCx | April 24, 2006 at 08:29 PM
I *LOVE!* the new e-mail design. As Goowy just keeps getting better, I continue reverting my Hotmail accounts back to their thousand year-old classic view--the one that actually works. Conversely, Goowy's e-mail works like a charm. Good to see Microsoft's butt getting kicked. Keep it up!
Oh, and I finally used the storage feature just yesterday. It worked perfectly. My life is being made easier by Goowy. Thanks.
Even as a hardened beta tester, I'm ready to give up on Microsoft's recent pathetic "Live" attempts. Of all their Live offerings I am presently testing, not a one comes close to Goowy. Now, please go after their Office Live where I can set up shop with my own domain name. Do that and I'm a "Goowyte" forever.
Hey! Who's that in the rear view mirror? {Gasp!} It's Microsoft!
Posted by: ZenWarrior | April 25, 2006 at 01:36 AM
Maybe it's just me, but the new e-mail design seems very, very slow. I find myself waiting now, but did not before the redesign. Part of the problem seems to be page refreshing. Even after deleting an item, it remains visible in the view pane for at least several seconds. So, I wait. :(
Posted by: ZenWarrior | April 25, 2006 at 10:42 AM
Wow! the updates are so many.....3of'em I encountered within 2 succeeding days..
Total rocking
Posted by: Madhu | April 26, 2006 at 05:27 AM
The new mail layout is great, but I think it got rid of the Hyperlink button in the email composer. please bring it back, my emails feel so empty without hyperlinks. i NEED hyperlinks!
(ironically the hyperlinks I put in here were filtered out. darned plain-text-only comments.)
Posted by: Gabriel | April 26, 2006 at 05:45 AM
It only logs into goowy for me. I can't get it to log into any of the other messengers nows.
Posted by: Darkneoboi | April 26, 2006 at 06:56 PM
Faster all around, we're lovin' it!
Posted by: Drew Olanoff | April 27, 2006 at 02:12 PM
Man, this service sucks...numerous products out there kick your butt functionally, and they somehow manage to keep the service running while doing maintenance and upgrades. Guess that's the difference between pros building SaaS solutions and children playing Web 2.0
Posted by: Egrog | April 29, 2006 at 10:58 AM