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Go.diigo.com been hacked? - 35 views

started by Onno van der Straaten on 20 May 13 no follow-up yet
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    "skimresources.com" appears to yet another analytics/tracking company. I suspect if anything there is a misconfiguration, however hopefully the Diigo team will comment.
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Diigo development stagnant? - 104 views

  • Matt Fahrner
     
    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).
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    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.

    Thanks.
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How to become an "active and trusted user"? - 112 views

started by Daniel Gauthier on 17 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    Yeah, but sadly a lot of us use a lot of browsers depending on the circumstances - I use Firefox mostly, IE when pages are too braindead to support Firefox, Chrome when pages don't work with either, Safari on iPad (would use Diigo Browser if they get it totally snazed up).

    But you're right, it's easy to get watered down in an overly large support base. I could survive as long as it worked on Firefox and iPad Safari...
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iPad Suggestion - merge Diigo tool and Diigo browser - 42 views

started by Matt Fahrner on 10 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    I sort of implied this elsewhere, but the Diigo browser I think could actually use more Diigo integration. For instance, as far as I can tell you can't add a URL to a Diigo List. Also I think the whole "Send to" paradigm is klunky given that this is Diigo browser ostensibly for Diigo users. Ideally the Diigo browser should have at least as many capabilities for bookmarking as the Firefox Diigo plugin.

    Toward that end I really suggest just merge the iPad Diigo tool and the Diigo browser, and blend their functionality together. Even if not, at least make the Diigo browser a very powerful interface into Diigo bookmarking, highlighting, capture, etc.

    Finally, if beggars are being choosers, find a different icon for the browser. Of course this is only taste, but the pinwheel doesn't do it for me (yes, picky!).

    All of this said of course, I love Diigo - so please take these comments in the constructive method they were intended.

    Thanks!
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Diigo iPad app doesn't launch on iOS5 - 133 views

  • Matt Fahrner
     
    I have the same issue since upgrading - starts and immediately disappears...
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    Uninstall/reinstall seems to have done the trick. Seems to be some config that is incompatible between iOS versions.

    In short, remove it and reinstall it from the Apple store and all seems well.
  • Matt Fahrner
     
    Excellent! Glad I it was useful!
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