DISQUS

Mathew's comments: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

  • Mark Evans · 3 years ago
    mathew,
    i've tried flock and came away disappointed because it came too early and i don't see how it's going to be different enough from IE, opera and firefox to carve out a niche. i think what the performancing extension demonstrates is flock's lack of raison d'etre. if flock's biggest sizzle can be defused so easily, then what's the appeal?

    mark
  • Chris Messina · 3 years ago
    Hey Matt,

    Thanks for the feedback. I very much appreciate the rationality of your response -- and the point about folks becoming "binary" about these things is pretty spot on.

    I didn't ask Mike to write his post or to come to our defense or anything -- I did point him to my post in a conversation that he and I were having last night and an hour later he said that I had "inspired" him (!).

    So I think the bigger point that he was responding to -- and which is why I think he continues to like Flock -- is that there is a bigger idea here and more at work in the way the web is changing that current thinking simply doesn't yet address. I'm working on Flock as a 10 year project; I'm working on Open Source as a 10 year project. Damn, the web has made us an impatient lot. Yeah, well, a little patience, a little hope and some elbow grease, yeh, that's what's gonna make this thing better and no longer just the neighborhood of the geeks. Well, that's what I'm hoping for anyway.
  • Mathew · 3 years ago
    Mark:

    I know what you mean -- I was disappointed too. But at the same time, I did like the Flickr integration and a couple of other things Flock had. Could those all be handled with extensions to Firefox? Sure -- and that's what the success of Performancing's plug-in shows. But I think it's a little early to say Flock is dead as an idea. As Chris says in his comment, I think we're getting a little impatient.

    Chris:

    Thanks for stopping by. And I wasn't trying to suggest that you got Mike to respond in your defence -- I think he felt he had to because of some of the things that were being said, which is a shame. It's one thing to say the Performancing extension is great, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should be giving Flock the last rites.
  • Manish · 3 years ago
    Performancing is a nice add-in, Flock's pretty nice too. For a *much* more advanced blog editor, check out RocketPost:

    http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost

    (I designed it.)

    It supports built-in photo editing, auto links to related posts, Technorati/Delicious tags, AutoCorrect, and lots more.