Cool app. I was looking for something exactly like this yesterday and I was surprised no one had made it yet. Your UI is nice, but the icons are a little crowded on the view activity panel. Also it took me a minute to figure out what "group threshold" does (actually I'm still not sure how grouping works).
Suggestions:
- A filter to ignore certain files within a subfolder (regex or strict selection would be fine)
- Express time in relative as well as absolute terms (ie, "five minutes ago," "two days ago," etc.)
- For premium: A built-in diff viewer for those of us who haven't paid for Kalidescope, etc. Maybe you could integrate Mergely (mergely.com)?
The only other thing: I hate the App Store and I'm not alone. It'd be great if you integrated the premium payment option with the direct-download version and added it to the (Home)brew cask repos.
Yes, will definitely need to do a better job explaining how grouping works (and perhaps also fine-tune how it actually does work). Currently the time setting (e.g. the default 10 minutes) is the time threshold between successive edits for grouping edits together. Note that this only affects grouping while the table is loading, it does not update existing groups. The "Group" button groups the whole selection together, while the "Ungroup" button shatters the whole selection into individual atomic edits. It's a bit complicated and could definitely need some work still, but I feel something similar to this is needed to provide an easy default overview of edits but also allow users to fine-tune to view the exact diffs that they wish to see. Any further suggestions here would be more than welcome.
Ignoring certain filenames based on regexp is coming soon, probably already in 1.2.1, within a week or two. (This has been suggested by several users.)
With regards to diff viewers: I'm trying to offload diffs to existing software. Currently, all the supported diff viewers cost money, so am definitely looking into connecting with existing free apps as soon as possible. There is at least Apple's FileMerge (though it is cumbersome to obtain since it only comes as part of Xcode), other suggestions are welcome! I'll look into integrating Mergely as well.
Finally, will definitely be adding the ability to purchase the premium version outside of the Mac App Store. I'm not a big fan of the store myself. (I'm trying to combat some of the existing problems of the store by having separate web download versions that can read the App Store receipt. This helps for instance if the user would like to install the latest update without waiting for App Store review to go through.) Will need to look into (Home)brew as well.
To whoever stumbles upon this thread: version 1.2.1 is now out (now live at revisionsapp.com and mac app store version in review) and introduces the following two main new features
- Ignoring certain files and folders based on regular expression match (note: premium-only feature)
- Ability to launch any diff app (including Apple FileMerge), by calling a custom AppleScript script (this also gets around the restrictions imposed by the app sandbox). Sample script for FileMerge provided.
Correcting my earlier post, actually TextWrangler (one of the natively supported diff apps) is free of charge, and now with the custom diff script users can connect to other free diff apps as well (such as FileMerge).
Will soon be adding the possibility to purchase Premium functionality outside the Mac App Store, probably within a week or so.
Where are the photographer credits? Where is the licensing information for each photo? What is your mechanism for compensating the creators of the original works you are republishing?
Lump is a visual search engine, so we conform to the same basic copyright and ownership rights respect that other image search engines do.
1. Credits: Each image is linked to its referring site. You'll also find the name of the referring site in the title tag and the image alt tag. In other words - we really encourage the user to find the original source and engage with the content on its own site.
2. Licensing and copyright notice: All photos are copyright by their author. You'll see that in the footer of the site. Since images published on the web do not have embedded copyright information, that's about all I can do. :(
3. Compensation: There is no mechanism for compensating the creators of original works who have chosen to publish them on the web and allowed them to be indexed by search engines.
And, of course, we honor robots.txt. :)
I think I'm doing the right thing within the boundaries of the technology we're stuck with. Let me know if you have any questions.
Which is why this acquisition was more about PR than talent or technology. It says (or tries to say), "You might think we're just dusty old Yahoo!, but we're hiring 17-year-old wunderkind too! We're hip to the next big thing! And remember we have a new CEO..."
Thanks but also sorry, because I should clarify—it's not my app, I just found it last night while looking for just this for a new Chromebook. I'm a heavy NValt user and there's sadly no Dropbox support on ARM as yet. Also saw that no one had posted to HN yet so thought I'd share.
Dev is a Japanese fellow on Twitter @kazuhiroshibuya, I'm sure he'll appreciate new users and any kudos. It's really well-designed and like others who commented here, I'm very glad for the prominent privacy disclosures on the homepage.
Suggestions:
- A filter to ignore certain files within a subfolder (regex or strict selection would be fine)
- Express time in relative as well as absolute terms (ie, "five minutes ago," "two days ago," etc.)
- For premium: A built-in diff viewer for those of us who haven't paid for Kalidescope, etc. Maybe you could integrate Mergely (mergely.com)?
The only other thing: I hate the App Store and I'm not alone. It'd be great if you integrated the premium payment option with the direct-download version and added it to the (Home)brew cask repos.
Good work.