173 karma · joined July 13, 2009
I've been using it for a while now, love it.
If you're a web developer+designer, it's probably not as useful, but for everyone else it rocks - and I hope to see people use/customize it to their liking. I love how it pulls so many services together. It seems like there's still some desire for some basic template for blogging after Dustin Curtis' last ordeal and now this, although it kind of seems like Twitter's Bootstrap has solved all of those basic problems for a lot of people.
If you want to run it yourself on a public-facing server, you'll need to change the connection to Socket.IO on line 2 of /public/js/script.js to point to your server instead of localhost. I also had to edit /views/themes/default/room_list.jade and put the 'each room,key in rooms' bit inside of an 'if rooms' statement because that was throwing an error.
Also worth noting, nothing is filtered (you can send <script> tags for example and they'll run for everyone).
Anyways, that would definitely piss me off a bit as well, crappy deal. I'll keep using Groupon, I can't pass up half off concert tickets and delicious foods :D.
Edit: Oh, this guy says it much better: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1698788
Also pretty popular to remap capslock to esc, I tried it but never got used to it.
Hardware: 15" MacBook Pro, w/ 19" external LCD and external Apple keyboard if I'm at home.
Software: MacVim, MAMP setup w/ BIND for local dev (using this configuration: http://postpostmodern.com/instructional/a-smarter-mamp/), git for vc, Parallels for IE testing, Firefox w/ Firebug and WebDev extensions for debugging js and editing css, and I prefer iTerm over Terminal.app (sadly just for 256 color support, I'm sad I know).
Web apps: http://www.getcloudapp.com/ for sharing, http://www.freshbooks for time tracking/billing
Supervision: 8-month-old boxer-lab with an attitude.
I agree that the New York Times designer's version is a big improvement. A few things that really bug me about the current version that are fixed with this design include the left aligned headers / fixed page flow, more obvious search box, and fixed colors. In my opinion if you're going to use default browser link colors you should be using the default browser background color. Maybe that just bothers me though, who knows, I'm weird. Also, why do we need to see a list of countries / states / anything besides local cities? How is that not just more useless clutter?