Great start - some constructive criticism
My initial reaction is that threadsy does solve a common problem and in a fairly intuitive and easy to use way. Keeping the UI simple (2 panels) makes navigation easy, as well as
providing a good separation between the "inboud" and "unbound" feeds (I'm not too keen on that terminology, but I don't really have a better suggestion.)
As far as constructive criticism of a beta product - I would offer the following thoughts:
1. There is no Loading indicator when the page initially loads. I reloaded the page several times before I checked Firebug to see that requests were being sent and the page was waiting for a response.
2. The "unbound" stream offers an easy way to post simple status updates to facebook and twitter, but does not include the google talk status - that would nice.
3. If people are going to use threadsy as an email client, it needs to have some more features including the ability to CC and BCC. The ability to view an emails full source (including headers) is important as well.
Thats all I've got for now, but it really looks great.
Question about the JS library choice - why choose mootools over a more full featured UI library like ExtJS or Dojo? Seems redundant to recreate a full UI when there are libraries that provide full featured and extensible frameworks to start with. It seems it would have cut back on cross browser compatibility issues and provided more time to add features.
Best Regards-
Mark
providing a good separation between the "inboud" and "unbound" feeds (I'm not too keen on that terminology, but I don't really have a better suggestion.)
As far as constructive criticism of a beta product - I would offer the following thoughts:
1. There is no Loading indicator when the page initially loads. I reloaded the page several times before I checked Firebug to see that requests were being sent and the page was waiting for a response.
2. The "unbound" stream offers an easy way to post simple status updates to facebook and twitter, but does not include the google talk status - that would nice.
3. If people are going to use threadsy as an email client, it needs to have some more features including the ability to CC and BCC. The ability to view an emails full source (including headers) is important as well.
Thats all I've got for now, but it really looks great.
Question about the JS library choice - why choose mootools over a more full featured UI library like ExtJS or Dojo? Seems redundant to recreate a full UI when there are libraries that provide full featured and extensible frameworks to start with. It seems it would have cut back on cross browser compatibility issues and provided more time to add features.
Best Regards-
Mark
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The company has this in progress.
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Inappropriate?1. Agree, we'll add!
2. Interesting idea, that could be cool. We'll consider it.
3. We're working on adding more of the missing email features... our goal is a full email client. Stay tuned!
Mootools: we chose this because it suits our needs of handling large JS codebase well. Also, most of our UI is custom so we couldn't leverage a lot of ExtJS or Dojo etc. -
Inappropriate?1. It's also not obvious which account I'm tweeting or retweeting from. It's not always the case that I want to retweet from the account that received the message. I like how Hootsuite handles this by letting me select.
2. If an email message fails to send, what happens to it? It'd be good to have an 'outbox'.
3. The 'search' bar overlaps some buttons in for me in Firefox 3.5.X on OSX Snow Leopard and Leopard.
Over all I'm loving threadsy. Lots of potential and it's already replaced a few apps that I used previously.
I’m satisfied.
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search bar overlap is a known issue on our list. you can get it to display correctly by resizing the width of your broswer -
Inappropriate?Quick update:
Loading indicator is there now. We have a solution for emails that fail to send going live shortly (synchronous send).
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