We’ve been working on a whole slew of features to make the core Pring experience better. Here is the latest batch of freshly baked features:

Death to Typos!

Nobody’s perfect and we all make mistakes, especially while we’re sending SMS. Mobiles make it so easy to make typos. The small keys, weird T9 word auto-completion and our tendency to press send just a bit too quickly. It’s no wonder we receive so many typos from our Pringers.

How many times has this happened to you: you wanted to follow waqas but instead of writing follow waqas, you accidentally wrote folow waqas (missing L) or follwo waqas (common swapping typo) or foollow waqas (extra letters)? To make matters worse, the wrong command gets sent as a broadcast to all your followers! Not good!

Well, worry no more! Starting today, we will be accepting all common typos for commands. That means that if you missed a letter, added an extra letter, swapped two letters or mis-typed a letter, we treat it as a command. We’ve built nice fuzzy logic so that you will have lesser errors, lesser typing and more action! And no more embarrassing typo updates!

Forgot your password and your Email?

We get a lot of emails for help from people who can’t remember their password and can’t remember which email they used to signup. Not to worry! We’ve come up with new ways to retrieve your forgotten passwords. Now, you can enter your username or your mobile number in the Forgot Password page. If you have a mobile setup, we will send you a verification code which you can then use to reset your password or if you have an email configured, we will send you an email.

Better SMS Delivery

When we send an SMS to you, it first goes to your Mobile Operator who then sends the SMS to you. Sometimes, because of various reasons, the SMS we send to your operator is rejected or gets lost along the way. Starting today, we have rolled out new connectivity logic that will improve the delivery rate of the SMS we send to you significantly.

What do you think?

We’ve also made lots of speed improvements and UI tweaks. We will continue to update Pring to make it better for you based upon your feedback. What do you think? Facing a problem? Have a suggestion? Let us know! We love feedback!

by @Nash

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