How Will It Work?

When writing your post, you’ll do as you’ve always done: choose a title, write some content, and click “Publish.” After it finishes publishing to your first blog, you’ll be given the choice to publish it to any of your other blogs:

Simply check the other blogs you want to publish the post to, and click “Publish to these blogs too.”

What do you think?

Since this feature hasn’t been released yet, this is the perfect time for you to give feedback that could really alter the way this feature works. What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

If you run a blogging service that you want ScribeFire to support (or if you’re a fan of a service for which you want support added), here’s what you can do: create a test account for use by ScribeFire and email the blog URL, username, and password to chris@scribefire.com. (Do not send usernames or passwords for your real accounts.) I’ll add these accounts to the gamut of tests that run before I release a new version of ScribeFire; if any bugs have arisen that affect the way that ScribeFire interacts with those accounts, I’ll be able to fix them before causing you any trouble.

I already have test accounts for the following services: Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, LiveJournal, and Xanga. Accounts for Drupal, Joomla, and MovableType/TypePad are high on my wishlist.

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!

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.)

• Synchronize settings between computers
• Ability to delete multiple notes
• Support for Thunderbird
• Automatically check the “Modify Timestamp” box when the timestamp is changed
• Ability to organize list of blogs

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:

• Color code drafts vs. published entries in the Entries list
• Title templates for “Blog This”
• Gallery2 integration
• Clipmarks integration
• Button for code
• ScribeFire in the sidebar
• Customize WYSIWYG editor font
• Better Flickr search
• Better support for blog-specific features (like in LiveJournal, MySpace, etc.)
• Image thumbnail creation
• Image padding
• Better table support
• Google Video support
• Better Joomla support

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.

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

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.