DISQUS

funkyboy · 1 year ago

I see your point.
Sometimes it is not easy to find the added value of tools like Posty.
I personally had needs similar to yours, that is tools which do something more than the things I can do in a regular browser.
I am not trying to justify my work on Posty, but I feel I can say we are not yet ready for that, for two reasons: api provide a good gateway to a service, but servers are not yet ready to be hit by tons of requests as it would be needed by the requests you made.
The second reason is related to the frameworks you adopt to develop your app. The one I use - Adobe Air - is great, but it has been released less than a year ago. It is still young and needs to grow, to address all the needs of RIA developers.

For example you talk about thread visualization, and I'd love a tool with such a feature, being it a web mashup or a desktop application.
In twitter there are no threads, at least not in the sense of forums. There are just updates prefixed by a username. In that case threading is useless, because you will end up with a list of partially unrelated statuses.
In this case let me reply with one question: if threads are important, why twitter or FF don't display them on the website?

My response is easy: they did conceive their services as threaded conversations, but just as flat lists.

Anyway, thanks for the criticism. I appreciate it.

Roger Kondrat · 1 year ago

Funkyboy thank you very much for adding your voice. It is really appreciated and you make some great points.

Cheers

Hund · 1 year ago

ave one interface and have a cross-platform
chat with contacts in FF, Identica

Artificial · 1 year ago

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