Things that I love about Radio (and what it does better than e.g. TypePad):
- real WISIWIG formatting (and not buttons that add the code)
- including the fact that it preserves formatting while copy-pasting (this is bad if you copy from Word, but I have my workaround ;)
- lists as formatting options
- shortcuts (in fact I use them to style quotes, so almost in every post!)
- trackbacks to my own posts (= if I link to my earlier post, the trackback is shown there, so all my posts get bi-directional linking)
- liveTopics
- built-in News Aggregator
Things that I hate about Radio:
- unexpected and mysterious breaking up: e.g. not upstreaming unless you restart everything or even reinstall it (and I hate reinstalling Radio: went 3 times through the process)
- lack of documentation and slow reactions to questions
- broken RSS of categories: shortcuts are not expanded and page title
- shortcuts are not expanded in trackback text as well
- no way to host my comments and trackbacks on my own server (and I’ll try moving to Python Community Server asap)
- News Aggregator that doesn’t know how to deal with many RSS feeds
- that there is no hope with bug fixes: I wrote about categories RSS problems 1,5 years ago with no luck
Radio is a mix of many great “user experience” ideas, but most of them are half done. For example, I stopped using categories only because they produce broken RSS. I really don’t understand why these guys are not paying enough attention to their customers :(((
The bottom line: if TypePad developers add something like liveTopics (not k-collector in its current functionality) and provide easy way to migrate from Radio with comments and trackbacks I’d probably move. Or may be I just wait for Tinderbox for Windows :)
Tags: citedCh3, RadioArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/02/28.html#a1100; comments are here.
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