This week brings some nice improvements. First, a lot of you have asked for the option to protect discussions. And here it is.

sharing settings

Behind the link “sharing settings” you will now find the link of the discussion as well as the option to protect it. Protection takes place by a self-chosen password which you then give to your cowriters separately. Plus, protected discussions are automatically encrypted via https.

Then, the handling of the edit mode is improved. Until last week, when you clicked into a line you had to wait for the server for a reaction before being able to start editing. Most of the time and for users with a good bandwidth that’s not a problem. But, nonetheless, technics might not always be that exemplary. Therefore now the edit mode is reached at once, without waiting for the server.
Paired with that, saving is now faster as well. You will experience the difference by an immediately disappearing save button and the appearance of the well known spinner.

• Here we would like to hear your opinion! Are you happy with that way of saving the changes? Do you happen to have any problems? Tell us down in the comments or by sending an email to support@doingtext.com. Thanks.

Next, some of you have asked for shorter URLs. These are now available in 6-character-length so can you can easily give away the URL while being on the phone and it’s more than simple for cowriters to write it down somewhere.

Last but not least, our introduction video is finished and published. It appears on the starting page and gives a short 1:33-min-intro on the core features of doingtext.

doingtext.com intro on Vimeo.

We wish you a lot of fun with the improvements and please remember the spinner-feedback.

Tags: discussion url, feature, protection, security, sharing, usability, video

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