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What is Owl?
Owl is a “message board client” for OS X and Windows. It offers a simplfied user interface to browse message boards. It is currently compatible with Tapatalk 4.x and most vBulletin 3.x message boards.
Todo List
Owl has mostly been a on person job working on this project between work, school and family. As a result there are several improvements the code could use and a number of features that either to be implemented, refactored or removed. Here is a broad list of things that should be completed before a 1.0 release.
New Features
These are features that are considered a must-have for a real 1.0 release
- Forum Runner support (Lua or native (C++))
- vBulletin 4.x and 5.x support
- Other board software support (phpBB, XenForo, SMF)
- Spell checking in post editor (Note: Hunspell’s licence may not be Mac App Store compatible)
Nice to have Features
Features that do not have to be in 1.0 but would be nice to have
- Improved wizard interface when adding a new board
- Improved error reporting
- Lua toolset for parser writers (?)
Code Cleanup
Some items in the code that need to be chaged or removed before a 1.0 release
- Remove server listening code that was to be used for single app instance in some OSes
- Remove the hardcoded seed value for encryption used for password storage
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Releases
- Version 0.7.2 released - 2015-01-22 (Based on Qt 5.x)
- Version 0.7.1 released - 2014-10-13
- Version 0.7.0 released - 2014-09-27
- Version 0.5.0 initial release - 2014-09-22
History
Owl was originally developed by Adalid Claure (aclaure@gmail.com). The program was originally released a closed sourced project in 2014. Many of the icons were created by Robert Burnham (burntham77@gmail.com) and the original vBulletin encryptor plugin was written by Joe DiBiasi (joedibiasi@gmail.com).
Owl is named in the spirit of the popular OSX email client, Sparrow, from which many UX ideas were taken.
