Fifty Pages for Friday
on 31 Jul 2009 21:29
With a little luck, I'm getting this blog posting out before midnight CET. I've just finished the draft of the open source template site and am handing over to leiger.
New Blog Template Site
on 29 Jul 2009 17:46
About a month ago we (Ed Johnson, leiger and myself) started on a project to build a blog template site and it's ready to test.
Tuesday Rant
on 28 Jul 2009 08:47
It's Tuesday, again, and that means it's time for the Tuesday Rant. This is the thread where you get to complain to us, and we get to ignore you totally without even reading your comments. Just kidding - we read every comment carefully before totally ignoring it.
17,000 Threads Later
on 28 Jul 2009 08:17
I just updated my Gmail filter to send traffic from the new polls.wikidot.com project to my Wikidot Community label. Gmail said, "Updating 17,000 conversations". That's the number of conversations (not emails, but threads) that have happened on the various Wikidot community sites since I started following them all about three months ago.
Design Blog
on 24 Jul 2009 20:02
Something that's happening quite regularly now is (a) someone suggests new feature or change and (b) I realize we've already got a detailed design that covers this feature, in our internal issue tracker, and (c) I explain what we want to make, and regret not telling that person in advance.
Comment Ordering
on 24 Jul 2009 09:14
You'll have noticed that there is a very common stone-and-sand pattern: person A writes something, and people B, C, and D discuss it. Such a common pattern, but still hard to use when the discussion gets long.
Sand and Stone
on 23 Jul 2009 20:26
Today, a question to those using Wikidot for ongoing projects. Do you make a distinction between discussions written in sand, and those written in stone? And if so, how do you make this distinction using Wikidot?
