It is with some sadness that I write this post to inform you all that I am saying goodbye to Flock (after more than a year) as my blog editor. To me Flock was the perfect combination of FireFox with all the right add-ins preconfigured with a lovely blog (html) editor that works a treat with my Flickr photos.
Unfortunately the last update (to v ) just turned it from great to bloatware. Too many features, too much integration T O O O O O O S L O W.
What a pity - I just loved they way I could start a blog post by dragging any flickr photo of my friends from the toolbar to a blog post and save it locally to my disk as a .html file. The integration with wordpress was cool with handy dandy technorati tag creation at publish time. But alas the performance sucks so badly since the last upgrade I just cant use it.
Enter ScribeFire - (aka Performancing) add in for FireFox. Not perfect but just good enough as a HTML editor that can save ‘Notes’ (wherever they go, not .html files in my documents). Good tag integration with technorati and even better Wordpress integration. AND - nice an zippy - fast, lightweight.
Sold
Fang - Mike Seyfang
4 responses so far ↓
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Beth Kanter
// Nov 16, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I’ve used performancing for a few years now and love it ..
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Evan Hamilton
// Dec 10, 2007 at 6:46 am
Hey Mike,
Sorry to hear that you’re leaving Flock. It is odd to me that 0.9 gave you performance problems, as we improved performance in that build. 1.0 has also been released with significant performance improvements, and most people report excellent speed.
If you still have Flock installed and are interested in helping us hunt down this bug, please email me at the address below. We can work with you to try to figure out the source and fix it for others in the future.
I hope Performancing continues to treat you well, I’ve heard very nice things about it.
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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mseyfang
// Dec 10, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Evan,
I’m impressed with your VRM capability!
I would be delighted to help you identify the root cause and/or find a workaround so I can keep using flock.
Fang - Mike Seyfang
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mseyfang
// Dec 11, 2007 at 9:53 am
DARN - just loaded up flock to see if the performance issues are still there (took forever to load and become usable) and an automatic update to v0.9.1.4 happened in the background. Only option was to restart flock now or later. I chose later but suspect that next time I load flock it will update and could change the performance.
(was hoping to trap the evil behavior in action for the Flock team)
sorry
p.s. checking the about flock before quitting shows v0.9.1.3. Will keep it open as long as poss.
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