Make it Better
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005OK, so I’ve provoked some discussion about what people are getting from WB at the moment. My list of things that would make this a more useful tool for work (and reflection/PDP) is:
- Excerpts in all the aggregate lists.
- Trackback to and from external blogs.
- Multiple categories selectable per-post.
- Multiple references (writing about) per post.
- Notify when a trackback is created on my blog
- Some less corporate designs. More ability to personalise.
- A more human admin. Needs to be more transparent, perhaps
- Display commenter IP. “Report a Comment”
- Take external RSS feeds. It’s all very well being able to harvest the RSS that WB puts out with bloglines or whatever, but that’s of limited use because it can’t authenticate as you. If you could parse RSS on the site (as software such as Drupal does), it’d become useful. Yes, I know bloglines does it well already, but I want to read posts that are restricted.
- Export entries.
- Search restricted stuff. At the moment the search only works for public entries. This is utterly useless. If I want to go back and find something that I noted in a restricted entry, I have to guess what category it was in, then just read back. Not helpful, especially since most things that I may need to refer to are in restricted posts.
- Scrapbook – favourite posts. I’d quite often like to just note an interesting post to come back to later.
Most of these are other people’s ideas, and some have been discussed in great detail. There are probably already JIRAs for some of them. I remember having a long discussion here or in forums about how categories should work, perhaps a year ago. As it is, it’s just not enough for me at the moment, not if I want to try and organise my thoughts using WB.