UpSiteDown change log

V 1.6, Sunday, September 15th, 2024

• UpSiteDown can now check websites asynchronously, resulting in faster, more efficient monitoring.
• The program will now update the list of monitored websites automatically when you modify the sites.txt file, no more having to restart the program to monitor new sites!

V 1.5, Monday, July 29th, 2024

• You can now delete your outage report at any time. The default hotkey is Windows+Shift+Control+E.
• If you try to launch UpSiteDown when it is already running, the program will be restarted.

V 1.4, Saturday, July 27th, 2024

When a site comes back up, UpSiteDown will now generate an outage report that contains details about the downtime, including the date and time of the outage, the reason the site was reported as down, and the duration of the outage. This file, named outage.txt and stored inside the UpSiteDown program folder, can be accessed at any time with the Windows+Shift+Control+V hotkey by default.

V 1.3.5, Saturday, June 29th, 2024

• Adds a first time setup dialog where you can add a site URL to initialise the program.
• Attempts to fix the updater.

V 1.3, Friday, June 28th, 2024

Changes the library which handles keyboard input, fixing an issue where all hotkeys would stop working under certain circumstances, such as opening the NVDA screen reader menu with NVDA + N.

V 1.2, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024

• The program now includes an on-command updater that allows you to check for, download and apply updates in your own time. Take heed, Microsoft! You can invoke this updater by pressing Shift+Windows+Control+C by default.
• There is now a user customisable sleep/backoff timer that controls how long, in seconds, to wait in between website checks. This is set to 60 seconds by default.
• The program is now better at distinguishing between different client side and server side errors, such as refused connections, SSL/TLS errors and request timeouts.

V 1.1, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

• There are now 4 different output modes to toggle between:

1. SAPI 5 speech. The program speaks through SAPI 5.
2. Screen reader speech. The program speaks through a screen reader, such as NVDA or JAWS.
3. Screen reader speech and braille. The program provides both speech and braille output through the screen reader.
4. Braille only. The program will only provide braille output.

• 2 new hotkeys have been added. You can now open sites.txt and opts.ini with a hotkey. By default, these hotkeys are Windows+Shift+Control+S and Windows+Shift+Control+O respectively.
• The screen reader library will no longer be needlessly reloaded when toggling between output modes.

V 1.0, Tuesday, May 28th, 2024

Initial release of UpSiteDown.