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I've asked about this on HN before (whether others feel the same way). It makes me feel safer to use pivotal knowing they're going to charge for it.

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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:

* markdown (code blocks, anyone?)

* editing or deletion of comments

* grouping stories

* replying to comments by email

[Edit: list formatting]

I'm surprised how beautiful the UI is in some places while being ugly in other places. I think they ought to redesign the form for editing stories.

http://skitch.com/benatkin/rkecs/pivotal-tracker-story-view

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.

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.

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.

Great to hear!

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.

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