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Re: The all-new Basecamp is live

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Post by jashkenas »

It's fun to poke around under the hood a little bit, and look at parts of the internal API:

    > Object.keys(bcx.models)
    ["PersonOrGroup", "Bucket", "BucketAccess", "Calendar",
    "CalendarEvent", "Project", "Person", "CalendarDisplay", "Todo"]

    > Object.keys(bcx.models.Todo.prototype)
    ["constructor", "isAllDay", "isTimed", "urlRoot", "getBucketPath", 
    "showPath", "bucket", "doesOccurOn", "doesOccurOnOrAfter", 
    "doesOccurBetween", "getDueDate", "summary"]

Re: The all-new Basecamp is live

#14

Post by gr366 »

I notice the new version is running on basecamp.com. The old version is at basecamphq.com and 37signals always made a point about the domain not mattering as much as the product name. I imagine there's a follow-up to that saying that if your product becomes successful there's nothing wrong with going and grabbing the pure domain (thinking Dropbox, Instagram and others. Or basically the opposite of Color.)

Re: The all-new Basecamp is live

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Post by shimonamit »

http://basecamp.com/transition

I want to migrate, but...

> Basecamp Classic and the new Basecamp don't offer the same features, so some data in Classic won't make it into the new Basecamp.

So maybe I'll stay. But wait...

> Will you continue to improve Classic? The majority of our design and development efforts moving forward will be focused on the all new Basecamp, but we'll continue to support Classic as long as customers continue using it. We expect that to be for many many years.

Maybe. Maybe not. The web moves very quickly you know. New browsers, standards, security risks etc. I can think of a million and one reasons Classic will get EOL'd sooner rather than later.

This is certainly faithful to their backwards compatibility intolerance. The new product couldn't be bound by the "burden" of the old. Now I the customer am left with a very distasteful choice to make.

Re: The all-new Basecamp is live

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Post by vijaydev »

gr366 wrote: post #14

I notice the new version is running on basecamp.com. The old version is at basecamphq.com and 37signals always made a point about the domain not mattering as much as the product name. I imagine there's a follow-up to that saying that if your product becomes successful there's nothing wrong with going and grabbing the pure domain (thinking Dropbox, Instagram and others. Or basically the opposite of Color.)

"Your Basecamp Classic URL (which looks like yoursubdomain.basecamphq.com) stays the same. New Basecamp accounts are hosted on the basecamp.com domain. New Basecamp accounts don't have subdomains, so all accounts are at basecamp.com."

From: http://basecamp.com/transition

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