links for 2007-08-28

Aug 29th, 2007 | Posted in Misc
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  1. Paul Annett
    Sep 2nd, 2007 at 20:41 | #1

    Hello Stuart!!
    If you ever get to work at 37 Signals, let me know – I have a list of things about Basecamp which really annoy me ;-)

  2. Sep 3rd, 2007 at 11:48 | #2

    Really? Like what?

    I’ve been using Backpack ever since it was launched, and Basecamp and Highrise more recently and I have very few complaints. The major issue I have is that I’m consistently finding that they don’t do something I would find very useful, but I know they’ve deliberately kept them simple. Those extras I want are unlikely to be the extras you want, and if they were to add both they’d quickly end up with excessive bloat.

    I definitely prefer the cut-down approach. And if I ever find something I do need I know I can use the APIs to build an add-on myself.

  3. Paul Annett
    Sep 3rd, 2007 at 22:45 | #3

    In the ‘add new milestone’ view you can no longer see your calendar of milestones. That’d be really handy.

    And they’ve removed the “formatting guide” from the messages section. Although I know how to use Textile, clients don’t. And wading through unformatted client messages can be a p.i.a. (not that they’d bother to use it, anyway…)

    There’s no permalinks next to individual comments, so I can only refer to a thread and say “third comment down” rather than linking directly to them. The permalinks exist (the dashboard screen and email notification uses them), but they can’t be seen on the page anywhere, so can’t be used by users, just by the system.

    There’s more, but I can’t think of them at the moment. Nothing which I think would make the apps ‘bloaty’

  4. Sep 6th, 2007 at 09:27 | #4

    Those sound reasonable. Have you emailed them with those suggestions?

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