Topic: Feature Requests / FTP Storage - No discussion allowed?

Maybe offer it up with a no-support option?

Just give us a useful log if a problem occurs and call it a day.

Topic: System Announcements / Read/Unread improved in messages list view

Oooh, that’s right. They were just using the visited link stuffs. Fixed.

Topic: System Announcements / Read/Unread improved in messages list view

“There was no way to keep the data from the old way.”

How about reading in my cookies and updating the database the first time I log in?

That probably would NOT have worked, as you never used cookies. And I’m a jackass.

Topic: Feature Requests / Message Template

I’d use a typing template program like QuickKeys or TypeIt4Me. More convenient than copy/paste.

Topic: System Announcements / Some adjustments to the Overview screen

dan – Jason and team did go about tweaking the design, and will hopefully continue to do so. Whether this screen is better or worse than the old one is something hard to call. Folks complained about the original overview screens, they tried to present a fix, and now folks are complaining about the new screens not being enough like the old ones. Designing an interface for as many customers as they have, and keeping everyone happy is a tremendously hard task.

They’re right, you should give it time, and be vocal about what doesn’t work for you. That’s the only way these things get better.

Topic: System Announcements / Some adjustments to the Overview screen

Holy god at the drama about the drama.

Look, folks are just speaking up about what they don’t like. Calm down. Constructive, precise wording isn’t something everyone is good at. I’d say the vast majority has been very reasonable, “Here’s what I don’t like and why.”

Topic: System Announcements / Some adjustments to the Overview screen

jeffpatt – “How these guys roll” seems to be in mesh in what I’d expect as a customer. They posted a change, folks complained, and they went about fixing it.

Your belief that feedback “stifles” creativity is just ridiculous. Worse, your statement that we should be quiet, lest we harm their delicate egos is even more ridiculous. They’re big boys. They can take criticism, and they can use that criticism to make their product better.

Topic: System Announcements / Some adjustments to the Overview screen

jeffpatt – I’m sorry, but if I’m spending 150 dollars a month with a company, I could care less about stifling creativity. This is a tool I use to run my business.

37signals should have posted this for comment before implementation.

Topic: System Announcements / NEW FEATURE: Interface design refresh

The date headers are certainly an improvment.

The subtle blue (obviously borrowed from Highrise) is just a weird addition. It doesn’t quite blend with the palette, doesn’t stick out either. I’d prefer it were gray.

Placing important actions and selections on the right hand side of the screen, in the header, annoys me. While it does make the page appear cleaner, on my largish 20in monitor, the amount of mouse travel isn’t an improvement at all.

The overview page is a bit … cluttered and unreadable. While I appreciate the new list narrative, the color block placement works against a quick scan (as the blocks will move left/right depending on the length of the person’s name) and the vertical rythm is just ever so off.

The main issue to me is that, when scanning the page, I rarely care WHO posted, so much as I’m interested in what was posted. If you take the narrative text idea and reverse it with the name text, it could still work as a sentence. “New message” posted by Brian K., “This is a new message”.

Oddly, it feels like this design focused less on usability and more on cosmetics.

Topic: Feature Requests / People Overview

It wouldn’t suck.

Topic: Feature Requests / Dismiss Basecamp Announcements

Only the account owner can do that though. It really should be an individual preference.

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Working Offline

Basecamp has some awesome print style sheets.

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Can Basecamp help my company?

No.

Topic: Miscellaneous / Not getting email notifications for own posts

Or did you?!

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / To Do List - Dragging First Item in List

Dragging the first item in a To Do List moves the entire list, instead of the intended item.

Safari 2.0.4 (419.3), OS X 10.4.9.

Topic: Campfire / How do I send a direct message?

Well, it’d be handy if the name in the left-hand list where AIM or mailto: links.

Topic: Miscellaneous / Absolutely essential web programing languages

If you’re interested in doing more ambitious web development, you should ignore the languages, and learn the fundamentals of programming first.

There’s nothing in Ruby you can’t do in PHP, or in Python, Lisp, Perl, et al. The language isn’t what matters. You’re just trading one bandwagon for another.

Learn your fundamentals, find a language you like to code in, and go from there.

Topic: System Announcements / The new Basecamp Forum

Pretty.