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That didn't show up as a reply because you changed with Link URL when you were entering the comment. Frassle uses that to thread discussions together, so if you change it, frassle assumes you are responding to something else.

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Jessica, the window that the popup bookmarklet creates is intentionally without toolbars. Do you think I should instead have it keep the toolbars? I usually just use it to make a quick post and then close the window, so I'd rather not have the toolbars around just to save space.

The other thing seems like a netscape bug though.

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Thanks for the bug reports, Jessica. FYI, it is possible to unsubscribe from a feed— just remove it from all categories, and it won't show up in your aggregator.

Shimon is a geek living in the Boston area, and the author of frassle. This page is a demonstration of what you can do with frassle's new publisher.

shimon's contact info and such

Frassle is a multi-user weblog community. It does lots of great stuff, but I'm too tired to explain it in this little box right now. Maybe I'll fill it in later.

By the way, if you're getting this over the "I want to see everything Shimon writes" syndication channel, it is probably inexplicably boring. Try looking at the page, http://frassle.rura.org/shimon/frassle.

A while ago my friend Evan Miller tried out frassle and sent me some comments. Turns out he'll be coming to Boston this weekend to join Josh, Dave, and me for frassle development bootcamp this weekend. That means I have to release version 6 tonight!

Anyway, this is a good time to go over Evan's original comments and talk about what's been done, or what we might work on this weekend. I'll go through Evan's points one by one.

A bookmarklet for Safari that mostly works is this:
javascript:window.location.href=%22http://frassle.rura.org/
Directory/note_add?uri=%22%20+%20escape(window.location.href)
%20+%20%22&title=%22%20+%20escape(document.title)%20+
%20%22&body=%22%20+%20escape(%22%3Cblockquote%3E%22%20+
%20getSelection()%20+%20%22%3C/blockquote%3E%3Cbr%3E%22);
It gives me an error about versions, but it works anyway.

We should create a new page for bookmarklets that offers them for IE, Mozilla, and Safari browsers. For each browser, we should also offer a version that pops up frassle in a new window.

I find the "edit categories" link under each post to be confusing. The main purpose of clicking this link is to file a link somewhere in my hierarchy; changing that hierarchy is secondary. I think it would be more clear to say "file this link" or something along those lines. Also, it is unclear to me what happens when I do "Save" someone else's post somewhere in my hierarchy. Does it save the link itself or the post about the link? Where can I find this link later? It's not in "recent posts", and although "outline" implies that this link is in my category, clicking my category just brings me back to "recent posts". I'm mystified.

The link has been changed to "categorize" in alpha 6. The mystery about categorizing another person's post is still there. The link should show up under "related posts" in your category, but this is not clear.

"Related items" takes a long time to load.

This is because I use a slow view on the database end of this page. I will optimize it soon.

It might make sense to let me file a post as I'm creating it, rather than after the fact. I don't like to fill out multiple forms regarding one post. On the other hand, I imagine that a single, unified form could get unwieldy, and so I can see why you could also leave things the way they are.

In alpha 6 you can categorize on the note post/edit form.

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Wait… you mean you don't get a plain textarea if the HTMLArea is not supported on your browser? That would be a bug. We'll see if we can recreate it tomorrow when Dave is here with his Macintosh. But I think he's been actually using frassle from Safari, so I'd be surprised if this was a persistent bug.

Also, I've edited the post you mentioned so that it can word-wrap better.

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Who do you think we are, abusive, criticism-fearing sociopaths who believe everything we do is perfect? Picky (but polite) users are our best friends!

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Oh man, I was wondering where I left that little box. Damnit.

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The one is a small, growing company with a culture that appreciates challenges and risks. The other is an aged, terminally ill industry with a culture that expects gravy and cynically manipulates the opinions and tastes of a large portion of American society. I hope we get more of the former and put the latter out of their misery.