The Buzz

It's taken a bit longer than we expected, but we're proud to announce the first major revision since we launched. We've been working away and have a ton of new features and fixes in this release, so how about a brief overview?

Free Account Changes: Again? Yes! We're doing away with the 5 page limitation and adding 30Mb of storage space. On top of that, bandwidth has been pushed up from 50Mb to 500Mb - now go out and build something cool!

Paid Account Changes: For our awesome customers we've also bumped your storage space to 150Mb (Personal), 500 Mb (Power), and 1Gb (Team). And, since we're on a roll, we're increasing allocated bandwidth to 1Gb (Personal), 2 Gb (Power), and 5 Gb (Team).

New Templates: After weeks of work, we're ready to introduce our second official StikiPad template, available in three color schemes! Of course, since we built it entirely using Liquid, you can duplicate any of the templates and use those as a starting point for your master creation.

Improved Domain Mapping: For Power accounts using our nifty mapped domains feature, we're pleased to give you what we are calling "soft" domain mapping. This allows backwards compatibility with previously hosted Instiki users that will let you retain your incoming search engine links by "softly" redirecting any page request from http://wiki.example.com/show/HomePage to http://wiki.example.com/mapped_wiki/show/HomePage. This also leads to being able to just type http://wiki.example.com and then having the user redirected to http://wiki.example.com/mapped_wiki/show/HomePage. Neat, eh?

Syntax Highlighting: For the developers among us, code syntax highlighting now joins our StikiMarkup, enabling beautification of Ruby and Yaml using a simple tag:


# ruby code here 

International Users: Last but not least, we had a few nefarious issues with international characters and wiki words, which is now fixed!

Wow, what an update! But, we're hardly near the end of our ideas. On deck next: StikiOps - our API, importing, an overhaul of the search engine and spell checking. And, if you have any other ideas, let us know what you'd like to see!

Building StikiPad has been a learning process from the beginning, and as much as we think we’re doing things right sometimes we miss the target. We've read blog posts and e-mails, and we've talked to you every chance we've gotten and realize that although we didn't feel the free account was too limiting when we devised our plans, you told us it was. Essentially, we underestimated what you needed, and after much debate we’ve decided to change our free account to give you more freedom.

Effectively immediately, any StikiPad Free plan will have the following account specifics:

• Public or Private wikis (Changed from Authors Only or Private)
• Unlimited Revisions (Changed from 5 revisions)
• Maximum 5 Pages (Changed from 5 revisions)
• Maximum 3 Tasklists (Changed from just one)

We thank each and every one of you that posted feedback about our Free account (whether good, or bad) - we appreciate it, and we promise to keep our ears open for the future.

We've also been working on two things that we're planning on launching quite shortly, and we're excited to get those into your hands so you can start using them. It's a belated Valentine's Day gift that's going to impact both Free and Paid accounts - we know you're going to love it!

All quiet on the Western front? On our blog, perhaps.. in actuality, I think not.

We launched a little over 2 weeks ago and have had an absolutely amazing response. It's an absolute treat to wakeup each day with no idea how it's going to end (aside from pure exhaustion, which I'm pretty sure has become such a commonality between Jonathan and myself it feels normal).

Boy oh boy have we been busy plugging away at the StikiPad engine after receiving a bunch of feedback. Our forums are becoming busier with activity, we've had some fantastic ideas for some new things we'll be launching in the coming week, and we're hearing about some pretty fantastic uses for StikiPad. More on all of these later when we can sit down and have a pow-wow.

Also, we're officially putting the word out to StikiPad users who wouldn't mind beta testing some new features we'll be rolling out in the future. If you're interested, send an e-mail to feedback at stikipad dot com.

And finally, we can't forget our dear StikiPad's 1st birthday which was officially on February 2nd. That's when the idea for StikiPad was born, and it's hard to believe it's been over a year we've been building on that initial inspiration. But, lets all raise our glasses and cheers to another fantastic year!