August 1, 2008
Responding to Your Feature Requests
Filed under: Development, Feature, Feedback, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 02:47pmLast month, we asked you what new features you’d like to see in ScribeFire. Since then, we have been investigating the feasibility of the enhancements you requested, and we would like to respond to your feedback.
For the following features, we’ve started working on them and they should be present in one of the next releases: (You can click on the linked words to comment on the feature or view its progress.)
- Synchronize settings between computers
- Ability to delete multiple notes
- Support for Thunderbird
- Automatically check the “Modify Timestamp” box when the timestamp is changed
- Ability to organize list of blogs
Some of the features you asked for have since been completed or were already there, but you just didn’t know it:
- Word count (Right click, choose View > Word count)
- Live Preview (ala Windows Live Writer); added in version 2.3
- Image uploading for Blogger; has been in ScribeFire for a while now; if it’s not working for you, file a bug report
- Keyboard shortcuts; they were broken for a few versions but have since been fixed
- A better publishing workflow was added in version 2.3
- Spellchecking; ScribeFire has always used Firefox’s spellchecker; if it’s not working for you, file a bug report
- Image titles; just select the image, right click, and choose “Edit Properties…”
There were a few requests that we’ve decided not to take any action on, mostly due to time constraints:
- Make ScribeFire an independent application
- Send comments from ScribeFire
- Automatic posting to multiple blogs. This one has come up before, and our current response is still to just click “Keep Content” after it posts to the first blog, and then change blogs and publish again. We may reconsider this feature in the future.
- Facebook Notes integration
- Multi-user support (multiple users in one Firefox profile). This is handled well enough by Firefox’s mulit-profile support.
For most of the other features that were requested, we haven’t started working on them, but we’ve put them on our To-Do list and will get to them eventually:
- Color code drafts vs. published entries in the Entries list
- Title templates for “Blog This”
- Gallery2 integration
- Clipmarks integration
- Button for code
- ScribeFire in the sidebar
- Customize WYSIWYG editor font
- Better Flickr search
- Better support for blog-specific features (like in LiveJournal, MySpace, etc.)
- Image thumbnail creation
- Image padding
- Better table support
- Google Video support
- Better Joomla support
We appreciate that you took the time to give us your feedback; in the future, you can request a new feature or report a bug at any time by filling out this form.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Posting to multiple websites is all I really need Scribefire to do.
I think there’s developed a big gulf between ‘a neat software toy we can push together out of a bunch of existing services’ and suddenly discovering it could be something that people actually need and were excited about your plug-in being able to do. As it stands, you have something of a glorified web editor, and to suggest people just save drafts and repost them…really laughable. I bet at least 60-70% of traffic comes to this site wanting to be able to do JUST that.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 am
I posted in detail my Twitter suggestion over in response to your older request post:
http://blog.scribefire.com/2008/07/04/new-features-you-want-to-see-for-scribefire/#comment-40581
I thought I’d mention it here too though.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
Impressive list
Thanks for making this (kind of) roadmap public.
I am missing color coded source code.
Of course with the possibility to add your own CMS specific template tags
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I think you should concentrate more on improving your quick ads algorithm. It serves Google public ads most of the time for my homepage witch aren’t paid and that can’t keep up with your statement of having a cool algorithm that calculates witch ads will get us the most PPC value and then serving thees ads. How can google public service ads get me the most PPC value when they are free? :S
August 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Could we possibly get integration with Zemanta? It seems like there are complimentary features in their product and yours, but it takes too much jujitsu to make them work today.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Just a bugfix request this time. I put a HR-divider at the end of each post. But when editing the en slash within the HR-tag vanishes. Then on publishing i get a message the publisgin can not be made as the slash is missing. This slash disappears mysterisosly every time I switch from HTML view (where I insert the HR-code) to the regular view to in the sage editor. it’s a bit annoying as I keep forgetting this aaaaallways happens.
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August 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am
@Fredrik
Why do you put an HR-divider at the end of each post?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Very cool indeed, I use it for my blogs and find it extremely useful.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I’m still trying to get back technorati tags which I lost back at the beginning of July. My blog is WP platform on my own domain. I add the tags in the option area of SF but nothing posts on my blog posting.
Any suggestions???? Do I need to uninstall SF and reinstall?
August 12th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
“better Joomla support”
Is there any Joomla support now? If so, is there any documentation to tell me how to connect my Joomla blogs to ScribeFire?
Most of my blogs are in TypePad. Now that TypePad has a “quickpost” feature, I fear I am going to migrate away from ScribeFire. I appreciate the tool and the level of support, but I because ScribeFire doesn’t support Post Splitting in TypePad, I have ended up going into the TypePad editor a couple times a day to clean up my ScribeFire posts. Now that I can post via QuickPost into TypePad with post splitting, ScribeFire makes less sense for me. Because there are so many other nice features - and I’d love to monetize (when I figure out how to get the dollar sign tab to come up on my screen), I do hope you decide to support post splitting in TypePad.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
The one thing I would like to see ia a “Broadcast” function included, so posting to multi blogs can be possible.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I will definitely be happy when ScribeFire loads in a side bar. For some reason I cannot get used to a split top/bottom screen. I use AIOS quite a lot and when ScribeFire will load there I will be thrilled. I don’t blog as much as I’d like but ScribeFire makes blogging things much easier.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
#7 Shahryar
Well I just like to have a divider separating the blog text from the links (tags, blogs on … etc)
But development unit has now fixed this. Great service indeed!
September 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Well folks. Sribefire is one of fav add-ons on firefox. It made posting way easier and quickads is a nice touch too. keep up the good work.
March 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I’d like WYSIWYG support for tables!!!
April 16th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Yes - I’d like tables support to be finished. Looks like you’re nearly there, given the little insert/delete widgets that show up in existing tables. Nice approach.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I’d like to see sidebar support too. We all have wide screen monitors. We don’t have tall monitors. I’d love to blog 1/3 and browse 2/3 on the width.
By the way, HOW should the spell check work. I’ll go search now, but count me among those who didn’t know it had one. Which brings up my second suggestion:
I’d like like to see a “Always Spell Check Before Publish” option like most email programs have to make sure you remember to spell check before you hit send.