Is it me or is the development /improvements to Diigo's browser addons, particularly the Chrome version become stagnant? Over in their feed back section there are requests for changes for ove a year now and nothing has been done with them. After using Firefox for years and its Diigo addon I must say I find the Diigo Chrome addon more difficult to use that its Firefox counterpart.
The Diigo blog has no new announcements on the browser fronts since March. Perhaps its time for me to see what else is out there.
During this period,we mainly focus on developing products compatible with other platforms,such as diigo browser for ipad and iphone, quick note and awesome screenshot for firefox,chrome and safari,power note for android. Now these projects are nearly finished,we bring back our attention to the rebuild of the infrastructure of our website. What do you like our website to be? We'd like to put ourselves in your shoes and listen carefully to your voice.
Well I would suggest moving Diigo Community and Feedback over to a service like Getsatisifaction so that requests for help and Feedback do not get lost. Right now under the Comments for feedback items it is filled with spammers that no one regularly removes spam from.
Not to belittle anyone's frustration, however if you want to see really slow and stagnant development use Delicious. It is because of that and the fact that every time Firefox updated my Delicious plugin broke (for months) that I gave up and moved to Diigo. I haven't looked back since. If anything I think Diigo is under-advertised - I didn't even know I needed the highlight and screen capture functions, but I totally do. Completely worth the premium price.
That said, I'll stop being a "fanboy" and note that I too would like to see the Chrome add-on extended to have similar capabilities to the Firefox version. I'd also like to see the Diigolet for iPad expanded.
Finally I like the Diigo browser for iPad but it's not only a little slow, but it doesn't seem like it gives as easy access to tagging as the (Windows) Firefox plugin.
Still, for me, while things could be better, I'm fundamentally satisfied with the functionality as of current (I don't find anything horrifyingly remiss).
Thanks for all your feedback. We really appreciate it. @pcguy999 Uservoice forum has been abused with spam.We are quite headache about it. Uservoice's anti-spam policies are not very efficient.We decide to take more action. As user Geoffrey Milos mentioned, most SPAMMERs in this Ideas forum are not particularly creative. common features include: - recent joiners - no bookmarks - no highlights - no activity outside of ideas. - single vote per "idea" Given those features,it should be only trusty users who have published normal bookmarks and annotations are entitled to publish new idea in this forum. As for Diigo community,it exists for a long time and some users have been getting used to the community. We will consider merging diigo community with uservoice. I try my best to interact with our users. Sorry for not being available to take an active participation in the forum discussions lately. As you can imagine, I have to deal with tons of requests from over 3 million users. As much as we'd like to interact with our community users (we really like to whenever we have a chance), I only have limited time and energy. @Matt Fahrner We appreciate your positive encouragement and recognition for our hard work! Awesome screenshot,another chrome app developed by diigo can be used for capturing screenshot. As for the tag issue of diigo browser, you can sign in and then click on the action button for sharing, you can enter tags in the pop-up bookmark window. We do like to make improvements on user interface. Do you have any ideas?
Well, I find the Diigolet a little buggy - sometimes it will load, but I can't "bookmark". I'd like it to remember tags (ie: pick list) between bookmarks similar to Firefox. It would be nice if you could lock it to default "private" not public.
That said for the most part it gets the job done sufficiently. I would be, as I noted in another post, happy to see more development in the Diigo browser, perhaps merging it with iPad Diigo tool itself.
But as pointed out earlier, to me most of this stuff is "tweaking" - the essential functionality is there and I love the product.
BTW - as an IT guy who constantly uses Google to find solutions to problems, Diigo's bookmarking, tagging, and highlighting capabilities are enormously useful. I think you should make sure you look beyond just academic, where it has obvious uses, but also push toward IT developers and administrators. I know many like myself who do web research everyday to troubleshoot, code, etc. (later forgetting the solution if not written down - which Diigo resolves) and if marketed properly there are probably a lot of users to be gained in that space. Your product, when using highlighting and screen capture also avoids the dreaded "linkspam", where your carefully saved off link becomes a dead end later - another big win for us IT types.
The Diigo blog has no new announcements on the browser fronts since March.
Perhaps its time for me to see what else is out there.
diigo browser for ipad and iphone, quick note and awesome screenshot for firefox,chrome and safari,power note for android.
Now these projects are nearly finished,we bring back our attention to the rebuild of the infrastructure of
our website.
What do you like our website to be? We'd like to put ourselves in your shoes and listen carefully to your
voice.
That said, I'll stop being a "fanboy" and note that I too would like to see the Chrome add-on extended to have similar capabilities to the Firefox version. I'd also like to see the Diigolet for iPad expanded.
Finally I like the Diigo browser for iPad but it's not only a little slow, but it doesn't seem like it gives as easy access to tagging as the (Windows) Firefox plugin.
Still, for me, while things could be better, I'm fundamentally satisfied with the functionality as of current (I don't find anything horrifyingly remiss).
@pcguy999 Uservoice forum has been abused with spam.We are quite headache about it.
Uservoice's anti-spam policies are not very efficient.We decide to take more action.
As user Geoffrey Milos mentioned, most SPAMMERs in this Ideas forum are not particularly creative. common features include:
- recent joiners
- no bookmarks
- no highlights
- no activity outside of ideas.
- single vote per "idea"
Given those features,it should be only trusty users who have published normal
bookmarks and annotations are entitled to publish new idea in this forum.
As for Diigo community,it exists for a long time and some users have been getting used to the community. We will consider merging diigo community with uservoice. I try my best to interact with our users. Sorry for not being available to take an active participation in the forum discussions lately. As you can imagine, I have to deal with tons of requests from over 3 million users.
As much as we'd like to interact with our community users (we really like to whenever we have a chance),
I only have limited time and energy.
@Matt Fahrner
We appreciate your positive encouragement and recognition for our hard work!
Awesome screenshot,another chrome app developed by diigo can be used for capturing screenshot.
As for the tag issue of diigo browser, you can sign in and then click on the action button for sharing,
you can enter tags in the pop-up bookmark window. We do like to make improvements on user interface.
Do you have any ideas?
That said for the most part it gets the job done sufficiently. I would be, as I noted in another post, happy to see more development in the Diigo browser, perhaps merging it with iPad Diigo tool itself.
But as pointed out earlier, to me most of this stuff is "tweaking" - the essential functionality is there and I love the product.
BTW - as an IT guy who constantly uses Google to find solutions to problems, Diigo's bookmarking, tagging, and highlighting capabilities are enormously useful. I think you should make sure you look beyond just academic, where it has obvious uses, but also push toward IT developers and administrators. I know many like myself who do web research everyday to troubleshoot, code, etc. (later forgetting the solution if not written down - which Diigo resolves) and if marketed properly there are probably a lot of users to be gained in that space. Your product, when using highlighting and screen capture also avoids the dreaded "linkspam", where your carefully saved off link becomes a dead end later - another big win for us IT types.
Thanks.