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Beta Test ScribeFire 3.4

Christopher Finke — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:22:51 +0000

Version 3.4 of ScribeFire will be coming out soon, and it has a few big new features, like exportable settings and customizable post slugs. The preferences system has also been rewritten, and lots of code cleanup has been done.

If you would like to help test these changes before they are made available to all ScribeFire users, download version 3.4pre of ScribeFire and start playing around with it. (The list of all the changes is here.)

if you find any major bugs, you can either comment on this post or fill out a bug report. Thanks for your help!

Responding to Your Feature Requests

Christopher Finke — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:47:05 +0000

Last month, we asked you what new features you’d like to see in ScribeFire. Since then, we have been investigating the feasibility of the enhancements you requested, and we would like to respond to your feedback.

For the following features, we’ve started working on them and they should be present in one of the next releases: (You can click on the linked words to comment on the feature or view its progress.)

Some of the features you asked for have since been completed or were already there, but you just didn’t know it:

Word count (Right click, choose View > Word count)
Live Preview (ala Windows Live Writer); added in version 2.3
Image uploading for Blogger; has been in ScribeFire for a while now; if it’s not working for you, file a bug report
Keyboard shortcuts; they were broken for a few versions but have since been fixed
A better publishing workflow was added in version 2.3
Spellchecking; ScribeFire has always used Firefox’s spellchecker; if it’s not working for you, file a bug report
Image titles; just select the image, right click, and choose “Edit Properties…”

There were a few requests that we’ve decided not to take any action on, mostly due to time constraints:

Make ScribeFire an independent application
Send comments from ScribeFire
Automatic posting to multiple blogs. This one has come up before, and our current response is still to just click “Keep Content” after it posts to the first blog, and then change blogs and publish again. We may reconsider this feature in the future.
Facebook Notes integration
Multi-user support (multiple users in one Firefox profile). This is handled well enough by Firefox’s mulit-profile support.

For most of the other features that were requested, we haven’t started working on them, but we’ve put them on our To-Do list and will get to them eventually:

We appreciate that you took the time to give us your feedback; in the future, you can request a new feature or report a bug at any time by filling out this form.

Multi-lingual? Why not help translate ScribeFire?

Christopher Finke — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:16:30 +0000

Do you know more than one language? Why not help us translate ScribeFire into as many languages as possible?

There are about 400 words/phrases that make up a full translation, but you don’t have to translate all of them yourself. Multiple translators can work on a translation, and any phrases you don’t translate will still appear in English.

If you want to help out, just sign up at Babelzilla, select a language, and start translating!

ScribeFire project in Google Code

Christopher Finke — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:55 +0000

I’ve created a project at Google Code for ScribeFire. This will allow you to view the latest source at any time, download nightly builds (once I start creating them), and most importantly, read and file tickets (bug reports and feature requests). If you have a problem with ScribeFire, and it isn’t already in a ticket, go ahead and create a new one.

I’ve already entered a ticket for every issue that has been raised in the discussion forum at Mozilla Addons, and I will be entering tickets for issues in our own support forum and comment threads at ScribeFire.com.