What do you want on Snippets? (See related posts)

Peter, it's a great idea. well executed, and the new design makes it even better.

Some suggestions

-- my snippets - where I can collect what's interesting for me like del.icio.us my bookmarks
-- tag suggestions, to make the tag space less noisy

Oron

Searching? unless I'm missing something, I can't find a way to search for a snippet. It would be nice to be able to specify a certain category to search within as well.

Add back the ability to narrow a tag ala

tags/ruby/arry.

from the UI

The problem at the moment is that I click "ruby" then I want to see all the snippets on ruby arrays. However if I now click "array" I get a whole load of non ruby associated snippets. This problem will grow as the number of snippets in the database increases. Eventually some snippets will become inaccessible. For example if there are 5000 snippets posted with the tag array but you just want stuff about C arrays the current UI will not allows trivial access ( short of typing the url manually ).

Perhapps two icons for each tag. One for a narrowing jump and the other for a a top level jump.

Regards

Brad

Oron totally hit what I was thinking on the head,
-- my snippets - where I can collect what's interesting for me like del.icio.us my bookmarks

I'd love this.

1. Concat the rails and rubyonrails sections (tags) into one.

2. Possibility to list all entries for one section in one page.

3. Provide a REST api.

brad: You can do that already, but we removed the links which made this obvious in Snippets 2. I'm not sure why! I guess I should add them back.. :) For an example: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/tags/ruby/array .. it's a tag combo :)

oronoa: I've been thinking about this myself. I've seen a bunch of stuff I want to 'remember' and realized that Snippets doesn't let me do that. It'll be implemented.

And, yes, searching is important. Not that hard to add either, so that'll happen too. Thanks for the pointers guys!

kmart: What would you find the API useful for? Just wondering. I like APIs too :)

I'll third the request for "my snippets". That'd be hot. A combined feed of the posts I've made and other's post that I've marked as favorites would be one hell of a feature.

First, thanks Peter for CS!

Here are my ideas:

1. More clean categorization to make less nois

I think it could be good to have a list with available categories to select while posting new snippet.
What I mean nois is e.g:
rails rubyonrails
file files
lighthttp http
both categories are for the same topic

Such huge flexibility in categories can be replaced by good search engine, so if I search for http then lighthttp will be matche and I don't need to have separate category for lighthttp :-)

May be a kind of categories tree could be nice, just like on the SF.net:
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php

What about some highest level categories like Operating System with Unix, Windows, All etc.
I think it could be available for selection, because may be useful to know if particular snipped is platform dependant or portable etc.

Finally, no matter what is the case of category name given by user make all categories lower-case.
Just like so called unix-name on the SF.net, every project has its unix-name which always is lower case.
That helps much to keep things clean and in order :-)

2. Comments Threading

Possibility to replay for particular post in comments and then to display comments as tree of threads.

3. Snippet Request

Instead of posting working snippet, users could be able to post a request for new snippet
e.g. Looking for regular expression to find all URLs in HTML source.
Then somebody who knows how to solve the requested problem can provide snipped.
After snipped is provided by someone, the request changes to entry with working snippet.

For now, that's all from my side. Thanks!
Cheers

peter: One usage that I can think of with an API interface, is the abilitiy to make a command line interface to the service (please don't laugh).

I.e. $ snippets list tags
tag1, tag2, tag2
$ snippets list tag2 content
heading1, heading2
$ snippets show tag2 heading2

 and the cut-and-paste...

And imagine what grep can do with the output above...

Just a pointer to what a Ruby-based API could look like: http://jots.com/about (a social bookmarking website)!

The full correct URL is: http://jots.com/pages/xmlrpc_api.html

"source code soon to be available"

when it is, we will be happy to give you a hand with some of these !

CodeSnippets is great! I'd like to see it get more usage. I only landed on it by accident by snooping around del.icio.us. If it had a simple, catchy domain name and more publicity on related websites, it might get more traffic from both amateur and professional coders.

An "Email this snippet" might be useful to some.

Another vote for an API.

It'd be great to be able to post from other than the website (I'm thinking of TextMate in particular, but Quicksilver could also work).

A good example of something similar is the Flickr API. I created an AppleScript/Ruby script that runs the screencapture utility, saves it to ~/Pictures/Screenshots with the date, uploads it to Flickr, sets it to private, and tags it with 'screenshot'. Finally, I bound it to Shift-Command-5 with a Quicksilver trigger. The power of OS X!

Now, how great would it be to dump snippets this way?

Alpha sort the tag listing on my snippets page.

RSS feed for comments (either for the whole site, just comments on my snippets, or both)

I would very much love a Search as well - preferably with the option to search only your own snippets, or to search everyone's. Sometimes I see a piece of coding go by that I want to find again later, and it's nearly impossible to do that now unless you remember who posted it - which I don't always do!

Other than that, awesome job on the site, I really love it. :D

Another vote for search.

The API can be interesting to integrate your service with an external programmer's editor (one of my favourites features of Smultron is text snippets).

Thanks for your job.

Edu, Barcelona, Spain

I created a feed for the comments using feed43.com:

http://feed43.com/8055673348816228.xml

mark snippets, taht are interesting for me (see frist entry by "oronoa")

"/2-bug": tag_xxx -> user_yyy leads to http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/user/user_yyy
thats intendet and ok. But
tag_xxx -> older snippets -> user_yyy leads to http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/user/user_yyy/2
with a wrong "/2" at the end. (This is the only bug i've seen so far - the main functions work perfect and overall "snippets" is great!)