Radio UserLand is great. Seldom have I seen a tool that's so easy to
use, and simultaneously has so mucht to offer if you bother to dig just
a little deeper. You can maintain a weblog, no, hold that, you can
maintain a complete range of weblogs, let your readers subscribe to
them, write and publish stories, and do cool things with the outliner.
And I haven't even mentioned the News Aggregator yet, my personal
reason to actually buy Radio.
But, as to many good things, Radio too has downsides, and I think the
only way to make them disappear is to write them down and publish
what's written. Consider this a public Feature Request form, where I
make my wishlist for Radio.
Dear Santa, I would like to see in Radio the following:
- The checkboxes at the aggregator
When I read my news, I
have the checkboxes checked on by default, so that after reading a page
with news, I can delete all the I've read with one click. Sometimes,
though, I would like to just delete one of the stories, and keep the
rest for later use. To do that, I would have to uncheck 99 stories (as
I have 100 stories at one page), and then click delete.
That can be done easier. Why not put an extra checkbox at the top of
the list? When you check that one, all the others will be checked. Of
you uncheck it? Well, all the others will just be unchecked too. Way
easier to work with. - The font in the WYSIWYG editor
The Wizzy editor is great! In other CMS's, I am used to using HTML-like
code to create links, insert images, underline text and so on. All that
kan be done way easier with Radio. Just use the What You See Is What
You Get editor, and creating links is done by pushing some buttons.
This way, you can see what your writing will look like while writing it.
There's only one thing that bothers me: the text in the edit-window
hasn't got a font defined. Because of that, the words (which I am typing
right now) are ugly. Why? Because Times New Roman, the default Windows
font, is ugly. Of course, I can change my default Windows font to get
that fixed, but I don't think that's the way I should solve this problem.
Isn't it possible to get this editor to show me my writing in the same
font that is used on my blog? - Navigating through the aggregator
While I'm at it.. why can't I browse through the stories in the
aggregator? I have 100 stories on a page, but when there's 150 of them
waiting for me to read them, I have to delete some stories from the
first page to see what else is hidden. Why not add navigator links
there? Something like "there's 250 stories, on 3 pages, you are on page
1 2 3". In that bit of text, the 2 and the 3 would be clickable, so you can jump to the other stories.
