Comments on: Upgrades

By: Bert Rodiers

Bert Rodiers — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:45:45 +0000

Maybe this is a valid alternative for cron: http://www.bitfolge.de/pseudocron-en.html

By: Phelps

Phelps — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:53:26 +0000

Actually, the updated chron instructions were spot on for me. And if they have cpanel or something similar with the webhosting, controlling access is dirt simple.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:24:40 +0000

You’re right, forcing the poor user to muddle around with .htaccess files or whatever the mechanism is on their server is lame. Even lamer is asking them to figure out cron! I wish there were an easier way to schedule tasks.

By: Arnstein

Arnstein — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:51:06 +0000

Categories is defenitely something that would make this user super-happy. Assigning feeds to many categories would be nice, but having the opportunity to point my browser to http://www.mysite.net/fof/cat1 or cat2 (in frames-view) would be unbelievably good and satisfying. FoF is simple, easy and super – it’s got all i’ve needed so far – giving me an excellent way to follow a lot of cool sites I wouldn’t have time to follow otherwise. No if I only had categories, I’t be watching even more feeds (not that i have the time…).
That, and an easier way to set a password on the admin-functions. :-)

By: steve

steve — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:14:49 +0000

There would be lots of applications of grouping or categorization or tagging or however you want to look at it. That should really be the next thing I do.

Just today I was exchanging email with somebody who made a special verison of FoF for use on a mobile device. I said “sounds cool! can I take a look at the code?” and he said “sure, but I only look at a subset of my feeds on my mobile, and I had to hard-code that list in since you are too lazy and/or stupid to put in categories”. Just kidding, actually he was very nice.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:00:00 +0000

I’m a devited FoF user, and I can say that from my outlook, the backroom stuff doesn’t matter to me nearly as much as the frames. The only thing interface-wise that I find myself wanting now is to be able to group various feeds.

Something that programmers and designers (I’ve done some Director stuff but no real programming) is that 90% of your users will never change the default settings. Hell, something like half the people on the internet have never scrolled a web page.