I'm hoping getting some money out of PT would make them act faster on the things most in demand in their user feedback site. http://community.pivotaltracker.com/pivotal [It appears as though] they've not been doing anything at all on these fronts for many, many months:
Also, why not have an expanded, non-editing view? The <input> elements do take up extra space when just viewing the extra fields.
It seems to me that they're missing some of the finer points of Single Page Application design. I wish I had a good guide I could point them to.
Again, though...they're totally nailing other parts of single-page application design. It's an amazing app that could be made a lot better with some refinement.
The recent redesign of the outer pages and the layout was the first phase of a big UX overhaul - viewing/editing of individual stories is next. Working on design for this now, we plan to dive in to implementation in the next few weeks.
You can hover over the left-side icons of a story (such as the comment/speech bubble) to get a read-only popup containing most of the details of the story.
I hope so too... I know that when I'm busy working on client projects, my homegrown stuff doesn't get the attention it needs. I know that for me, a revenue stream would ensure that one public-facing free project I run would get a lot more love.
* markdown (code blocks, anyone?)
* editing or deletion of comments
* grouping stories
* replying to comments by email
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