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A few Basecamp gripes
I’ve been using Basecamp a lot to organise all the projects across Rolled At and here are a few of my gripes with the web app. Don’t get me wrong - it’s close to perfect, but there are things that bug me about it.
1. Remember me!
Why doesn’t it forward me from the log-in form if I’m already logged in?
2. Backpack has a better calendar
I want to be able to set events, not milestones. I don’t want to have to tick off a milestone when staff member X comes back from holiday - it should just happen.
3. Why are write boards and the chat still separate?
It’s a separate product, we know that, but why is it kept separate on the product that is the overall offering of all the products offered by 37 Signals? I’d certainly be annoyed if the to-do lists where still kept separate like this. I feel it removes from the overall together product by keeping these separate, especially in terms of making it feel like it’s a single product.
4. No education in Textile
I feel this is the only part of Basecamp we as users have to teach our clients and people we invite in to use the system with us. The helpful small guide that was there a while back has been removed, luckily there’s guides out there on the internet but it would be nice if users had the chance to know that Textile was being used, and have a quick guide on how to use it available.
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Future of web apps feed has last years Kevin Rose
The future of web apps podcast/RSS feed actually has last years presentation by Kevin Rose. It’s the 2006 presentation, not the 2007 presentation.
Maybe if they made it possible to actually report bugs like this… maybe I’d be able to report it. What crafty campaigns can we come up with in order to bring this bug to light for the Carson family?
p.s. There’s a reason why the people who had ten minutes only had ten minutes - they aren’t very good presenters, and seemingly lack passion when talking about their product. (They all sound like sales pitches)
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Best presentation I’ve seen yet
Saw this one over at Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning and loved it. Much better than the normal business lecture and simply flowed awesomeness all the way through. I particularly liked how they measure their success in awesomeness.
If you want a video about the passion of making ‘Web Apps’ instead of the business of it, this one is for you:
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Xing needs to concentrate on features rather than press releases
I don’t rant often, but this one annoys the heck out of me.
*Start rant*
Xing (formally openBC - a much better name) is really starting to annoy me.And it’s not down to their annoying use of the word ‘articles’ instead of ‘threads’ or ‘posts’ on their discussion groups. Or the ridiculous amount of non-English content that gets into my view of the site even though I’ve chosen not to view anything other than English content.
No ladies and gentlemen I have a far bigger beef with ‘Xing’ - they have no RSS feeds. Don’t get me wrong.. they have RSS feeds for their blog, their press releases and their podcast. But if you want something that’s actually on the site - it’s all up to the group owner.
The group owner gets to decide (and they have to, it’s off by default) whether the users of the group can subscribe to their RSS feed in order to keep up to date with new posts. The group owner - the majority of which aren’t as active as you’d think, get to decide how usable their group is. To show you how bad it is, of my sixteen groups I am subscribed to - three have RSS feeds.
Now - why RSS feeds you ask? Because with my subscription to sixteen of the most active groups on the site (and all them get at least 50-100 posts a day), what does Xing offer to keep up with this? A hard limit of 10 pages of latest posts to browse through… most of which aren’t even in English. Something that basically gets out dated every three to four hours.
Another thing that annoys me is they show nothing towards developing or enhancing the site - but can post once a week (on the dot, it’s very obviously time tabled) on their blog about something that is never really news, but more of a ‘this is an entry from our help section’ update.
Could it be that they hired someone to build the site as a ‘one off’ job? - of course it is.
*End rant*
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