1. We used to actually have this feature (with our old, crappy look), where the site would collapse itself down to fit inside 800x600 browsers. (which now account for about 5% of our traffic, so we don't do that anymore). I've always wanted to sniff for bandwidth though, and throttle down the graphics that get sent.

Lately I've been trying to get the page sizes down all across the site, but still there are things that you just want ripped out when you're sitting at a dial-up connection in Laos. I'll get on it!

2. Done. Sorta. You can get RSS feeds for anything, but as of today, there are no links for them and no instructions. I could never find a good non-intrusive place to cram the "geek stuff", where it wouldn't confuse your mom when she came in to read your blog. Here are a couple feeds for you and your stuff:

http://www.blogabond.com/rss/rss.aspx?userID=1744
http://www.blogabond.com/rss/rss.aspx?tripID=1526

Simple, eh? Sure... If you're me. I'll get links in for that stuff.

3. Got the code sitting there ready to go. You'll be happy to know that I've left it out thus far because I couldn't decide where to put the Instructions link. Smart. I'll flip it on this afternoon.

4. Ahead of you there too. There's actually a Blogger importer/exporter sitting around gathering dust. I could never come up with a good way to handle the [import ... modify_here and modify_there ... import_again] synchronization scenarios, so I let it slide. Of course, the smart move would be to just accept that it will write over everything each time, but I got caught up in details and eventually lost interest. If I find time, I'll dust it off and do an HTML export as well.

But yeah, I agree that a "Gimme Back My Stuff" button is pretty important to keep people from feeling locked in.

Anyway, have a great time in South America! That's the one continent I'm still missing, so I need all the good inspiration I can get. Thanks again for keeping me motivated to continue adding features to the site!

Jason

written by  Jason Kester on October 8, 2007