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Jessica has some interesting thoughts on using frassle within an intranet, which is something I've been thinking about a lot recently. Particularly important is her list of crucial features that frassle is missing. I'll let you know my plans for each below.

file/picture posting

• I think I could start this with a simple file attachment mechanism, and perhaps later expand it to e.g. be smarter about handling photos. Still, this is at least one version away.

user documentation

• I have started writing a lot of this, and over the next 2 months I think we will be in much better shape in this regard.

privacy options

• I think I have a simple but reasonable design for this and am going to try it tonight.

trackback

• I haven't quite figured out the design for this. Sending trackbacks is easy — frassle can just look at all your links and try to find trackback URLs at each one. But receiving trackbacks is tricky. Ideally, a received trackback would tell frassle where to get that blog's RSS feed, and then frassle would simlply start aggregating that feed and properly threading its notes with other notes in frassle. Trackback provides a lot of this information, but I have the feeling trying this will show me some unexpected difficulties and limitations. Therefore, I've been procrastinating until I can set aside a good chunk of time to experiment and back down if something goes dreadfully wrong.