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I decided to start posting weekly updates on L10nhart, but I’m not sure how long I’ll actually keep this up.

First up, as you can see above, @gu1dry made a new L10nhart logo. The old one didn’t look so great on a brown background.

Next up, Twitter (and coming soon: Facebook!) login support. The reason I added Twitter logins so early in the project is because another project I am working on (on my $PaidJob) required them, and I took the opportunity to learn about the APIs and implement them on L10nhart.

Besides Twitter and Facebook, I was thinking on adding Google Account support later. Not sure what other popular account systems are worth adding, but even if you don’t have a Twitter, Facebook or Google account, you can still register and login the “old fashioned” way.

What else has been keeping me busy? General bugfixes all over the place, CSS improvements, ah yes, the @l10nhart Twitter account is up and running, as well as a Facebook page.

The reason for these is quite simple: They’re a requirement to get the API keys needed to implement the login system. I’ll post status updates to both, so you can keep up to date with news, if you don’t follow this blog or my Twitter account (@ElNushio).

Finally, ETAs (Estimated Time of Arrival). There’s a reason why CyanogenMod has as its first rule: Don’t ask for ETAs. Software development speed is sometimes unpredictable. Took me about a day to learn and implement the Twitter API (Go ahead, brag about how it only took you 10 minutes). I had estimated an hour or two.

What I’m trying to say here is that there’ll be no more ETAs. It’ll be ready once it’s ready, but it’s coming soon.