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Ramit Sethi replied on July 26, 2008 01:28 to the idea "Can we set our own comment length limit?" in PBwiki:

Hi Marc,

Interesting request -- thanks for making it. This isn't a common request so, unfortunately, we're not planning on changing the length of comments. Instead, we suggest that your users either (1) leave multiple comments or (2) create wiki pages and point people there.

Thanks!

-Ramit

PS--Can you point me to your wiki? I'd be curious what your users are writing about!

Ramit Sethi started following the discussion "Being Banned for criticizing pbwiki staff???" in PBwiki.

Ramit Sethi replied on May 09, 2008 06:55 to the question "pbWiki is yummy but I want my own darnit!" in PBwiki:

I understand -- thanks for letting me know!

Ramit Sethi replied on May 09, 2008 04:52 to the question "pbWiki is yummy but I want my own darnit!" in PBwiki:

Hi Babak, I'm curious: How come you want a downloadable equivalent rather than using PBwiki online?

Ramit Sethi replied on May 09, 2008 04:51 to the problem "Badge for pbwiki v2.0?" in PBwiki:

Michael, this is a great idea. We don't yet have badges, but I'll look into this. Thanks!

Ramit Sethi replied on May 03, 2008 21:43 to the problem "Email update to me when someone makes a comment. How?" in PBwiki:

I wanted to give you an update: We're currently testing new notification emails that will include comments in them. When we roll this feature out, we'll update you here (and on our blog).

Ramit Sethi replied on April 08, 2008 18:29 to the question "PBwiki Quick Start emails" in PBwiki:

Geoff, I'm sorry about that. 240 Quick Start emails! I'm going to look into simplifying those.

Ramit Sethi set one of Ramit Sethi's replies as an official response to "YackPack Stopped Working" in PBwiki

Ramit Sethi replied on March 26, 2008 21:23 to the question "YackPack Stopped Working" in PBwiki:

I spoke to the founder of YackPack. Their service has been down for a number of days. They are working on restoring it, but we've removed the YackPack plugin from PBwiki and are working on finding another service for voice chat. With all the urgent work on PBwiki 2.0, this isn't something that's likely to happen tomorrow, but I wanted to keep you updated. As I know more, I'll post it here.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 25, 2008 23:51 to the question "Premium, early-adopter wikis and 2.0" in PBwiki:

Sraymond, we're working on this right now (literally, we have different teams all coordinating this week). Although I don't have an exact date for you, we intend to release this very soon. Thanks for being patient as we iron out the last details.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 20:00 to the question "YackPack Stopped Working" in PBwiki:

Update: I checked with the YackPack team. They're migrating servers and it looks like there's been a slight delay. The service will be back up, but it will take at least 24 hours.

Thanks for being patient.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 16:38 to the question "Can Users See Each Others Emails" in PBwiki:

Guy, I wish we could serve every single request, but if this is a critical feature that you need, then PBwiki probably isn't the best choice for you.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 16:09 to the question "Can Users See Each Others Emails" in PBwiki:

Ok, this helps me understand a little better. Thanks, sraymond and Kevin.

Kevin: We can't really help with fundamentally human issues like that. Yes, technically we could add options, but you see how quickly the amount of choices and options add up.

In fact, David (PBwiki CEO) and I were chatting about this the other day (another similar case). He was surprised that people didn't want their email addresses to be shown. In his words, "Don't you want to know who made the edit?"

Because this feedback is so uncommon, we're not planning on making any changes for this any time soon. But with both of your comments, it is something we're thinking about.

Thanks again.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 04:26 to the question "YakPak Won't Talk Back" in PBwiki:

Hmm, I'm looking into this tomorrow and should know more.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 04:26 to the question "YackPack Stopped Working" in PBwiki:

I'm looking into this and should know more tomorrow.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 03:24 to the problem "point and click editor indents one space at start of every line / table cell" in PBwiki:

This will be fixed in PBwiki 2.0.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 04, 2008 03:18 to the question "Can Users See Each Others Emails" in PBwiki:

Hi Kevin,

Your users will be able to see each others' email addresses. The way we built it, anyone who's trusted enough to be a contributor is trusted enough to have their contact information shown to other logged-in users.

I'm interested though -- why would you not want contributors to see others contributors' information?

Ramit Sethi replied on March 03, 2008 20:51 to the question "Managing Users" in PBwiki:

This is a really tough one. We have users who want more control over who sees their wiki, so PBwiki Accounts are a natural fit for them. Usernames/passwords are pretty standard online.

But for some people, they value simplicity -- especially educators, whose students often don't have email addresses.

Offering both as a choice is very confusing, which has led to many of the login-related questions you see here. We're trying to simplify this, so I really appreciate your thoughts.

No matter what solution we come up with, we'll test it in beta and make it as simple as possible.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 03, 2008 20:27 to the question "Managing Users" in PBwiki:

Hi sraymond,

We're working on improving user management right now. The first step is transitioning most/all users to PBwiki Accounts (which we're doing).

Next will be making managing those users easier. PBwiki 2.0 does a better job of this, and we have a roadmap for even improving upon that.

We know this is something we need to improve, so please stay tuned for interface improvements.

Ramit Sethi replied on March 03, 2008 16:36 to the question "3rd grade wiki users and email addresses????" in PBwiki:

bjforney: We're working on this issue right now. We know that educators have different login needs than businesses, so we're holding an online focus group/forum tonight to chat with educators and hear what exactly they're looking for.

Stay tuned -- we want to get this right, and we'll keep you updated.