I can’t believe we have a sorta-kinda-Web2.0 site, and our logo doesn’t have any reflection in it. It’s soooo 2005.
To remedy that oversight, our Interface team has been hard at work, improving your user experience with something like the following logos:

Wotcha think? Brings us into the mid-2006s? Or should I add a yellow starburst with “Beta!” in it?

In advance of switching to the new url format, I’ve made it so new users can only use lower case characters in your site id. See the announcement for more info. It made me think though, I wonder if anyone will miss that. I checked the stats and found that there are over 300 people with uppercase letters in their site names. Camel case names are quite popular. Also sites like like myGTD for example. Of course the reason is because the subdomain urls are case insensitive. Does anyone have an opinion either way on losing the upper case letters or on the adoption of subdomain based urls in general? At this stage I’m aiming to eventually decomission the tiddlyspot.com/sitename urls in favour of the new sitename.tiddlyspot.com urls. Will anyone miss those old urls? Is the new url format more or less Web 2.0 cool?

See the article here. It’s a quite long one introducing GTD in general. Also there’s another mention here with some comments (and one guy who couldn’t save). I wonder if that’s what happens when the server is down. Dreamhost has had some periods of intermittent reliability lately. I hope it improves.

tiddlyspot.com acquired it’s 1000th site last night.

We’d like to make a bit of a big deal about it, but the site was created but never updated, and the control panel hasn’t been accessed. So if you created a site starting with ‘v’ in the last 24 hours, please add a tiddler or two, and put your email into the control panel so we can get in touch with you!
I’m planning on making a filter to only count sites that look like they’re being used.. then we can find out the 1000th “real” site.

Anyway I’m starting to feel that our little experiment can be called a “success”. Thank you to all those who have supported tiddlyspot by linking to us in your blogs, telling your friends about us, and generally being supportive.

And remember, we want to hear from you — please comment on this blog, or write with your questions and suggestions either to feedback@tiddlyspot.com, or in a post on the TiddlyWiki mailing list. If you just like (or dislike) tiddlyspot but don’t have a specific suggestion, we want to hear that too.

;Daniel

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/07/18/monkeygtd-a-tiddlywiki-productivity-tool/

Thanks Larry on the mailing list for the link. MonkeyGTD’s turn for a traffic spike. Over 1300 hits yesterday.

If you’re reading this then you automatically qualify for the advance preview of the brand new control panel. Here’s how to access it:

http://tiddlyspot.com/yoursitename/controlpanel.cgi

Authenticate with your sitename and update password.
Suggestions and feedback welcome. Post comments here or email feedback@tiddlyspot.com. Still no change password or rename/delete site.

Update 20 July by Daniel:

This service is now live for everyone! And as JasRandal points out in comment #8 below, the “username” to use is the name of your site.

Update 17 August by Daniel:

The new URL for the control panel is:
http://yoursitename.tiddlyspot.com/controlpanel.cgi

Judging by some of the referers we must have appeared briefly on delicious/popular. Also getting hits from stumbleupon (not sure how that works), MicroPersuasion, and some others. Here’s our traffic chart:

Unfortunately right in the middle of that our server went down for a long horrible outage caused by technical problems at dreamhost. Well it’s back now. Apologies to anyone who couldn’t access their site for the last day or so. Bad dreamhost.

Developing tiddlyspot.com is a lot of fun. We’re using Ruby, a language so clear that once you write down what you want, it runs, and you’re finished! It’s so easy it feels like I’m cheating or something.

On top of that, Simon is a freakin’ coding machine — we’ll think up some new cool thing over a coffee break, and two minutes later he sends me a URL to a demo. Here’s a little peak at something he’s working on right now:

Can’t make any promises about when you will see it on your tiddlyspot site though. We could easily get distracted by some other new feature.

Daniel

This new extras panel on the create site form works nicely (in our development environment). It slides down alluringly when you click “custom” and slides back when you click “standard”. We even connected it up so it created your site with the extras you asked for. We have decided not to use it though for a combination of reasons:

• Too much thinking required for new users
• What if you want to change your mind later? The site control panel is needed so why not make that the place to add plugins.
• We realised that the goal of making it easier to install plugins in your TiddlyWiki shouldn’t be tiddlyspot.com specific but rather it should be be addressed more holistically for any TiddlyWiki. I’m picturing a PluginManagerPlugin that can ship with (or fetch) a list of recommended/certified plugins with some meta data, and provide one click install/upgrade of those plugins in your local TiddlyWiki.

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