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Just a quick update to let everyone now we’ve changed the sort order for projects on the Overview page.

Previously, they were sorted by name, which is fine when you have just a couple of projects, but gets very frustrating when you have 5, 10, 15 or more projects and you need to know what happened with a quick glance at the list.

Projects are now sorted by most recent activity, thus the one at the top is the one which was updated most recently, while the one at the bottom is the one who has received the less love. ;)

We hope you’ll enjoy the update. As always, feel free to comment.

P.S. Replying to email notifications is nearing launch time and is looking swell: you’ll also be able to make changes to a bug by replying to the email.

In the last post, we told you we’ve got a lot of things in the pipeline for 16bugs.
And we ought to make that true, indeed, we’re getting ready to release a new feature you and us have all been waiting for for quite a long time. What is it, you ask?

In a few days we’ll allow you to post a comment to a bug via email!
If you’re on a paid plan, you’re already receiving emails when something happens on a bug you’re watching. Unfortunately, it’s not always possible to open a browser just to send a quick comment to a bug, or it simply would be much faster to reply to the notification email from within your mail client.
Of course, it makes life much easier for those reading emails from a mobile device, too.

We’re currently testing the feature on a few selected accounts and, if all goes according to plans, we’ll launch it in just a few days.

Two years ago, I launched 16bugs and let me tell you so far it’s been an amazing ride.

This year was a special one for our beloved 16 ladybugs, indeed, back in December 2007, “we”:http://blog.wonsys.net/ launched the all new version which was a huge leap forward.
And we’ve still got a lot of new stuff we’d love to introduce during the next year, so watch out.

To celebrate the second anniversary with all of you, we’re adding an extra week to all of our loyal subscribers.
And for those who haven’t upgraded, yet — or if you’d like to move to a bigger plan —, this is the right time: use coupon code “*two*” and get 50% discount for up to one year.
Yep, you can upgrade your account to a bigger plan for up to 12 months — or just one, if you prefer — and pay only for 6!

Today, we’re introducing something we wanted to add for a long time: secure SSL connection.
SSL is available on bigger plans only. However, it’s always active when logging in and signing up, as we want to make sure you feel safe when entering your account details.

Since a few people have asked for bigger plans, we decided to create two new plans:

* *Plus*: 25 projects and 3GB for only $49/month
* *Premium*: 100 projects and 10GB for $99/month

Sure enough, both plans come with RSS and email notifications, anonymous submission and SSL connection.

Two months have passed since we launched the new version of “16bugs”:http://16bugs.com/ and the response has been mostly ecstatic.
We’ve been receiving a lot of feedback since the launch and we’d like to thank everyone for sending emails and bug reports our way.

Today, we’re introducing a few features which have been highly requested:

* Change group to a member of a company (very easy: just drag and drop)
* Invite a new person from the project’s people page
* And, finally, _customizable custom fields_: you can now choose between check box, select, text area and text field when creating a custom field

Please, keep sending your feedback as we’re constantly working to improve 16bugs.

BTW, just drop us a line if you’d like to test the API.

It’s been a long time coming, but today we’re very happy to introduce the new version.

This is not _just_ an upgrade, indeed, the app was *completely* rewritten from scratch.
16bugs was working fine, but we felt the need to make it better, to implement some of the feedback we’d been getting in the past months and there’s no way we could build what we had in mind without starting from a blank slate.

Today, we’re releasing the first part of the upgrade, with a few more features coming in the next weeks.

This upgrade includes:

* Custom member groups inside each company (no more Project Manager, Developer and Beta Testers)
* Per-project permissions for each single member of the company
* Project activity to always be on top of what’s happening
* Improved syndication feeds and email notifications
* Watch single projects/bugs via email
* Ability to pay in advance for more than one month
* Bug IDs limited to company
* Increased upload size (because 1MB wasn’t enough) and no more limits on which files you can upload
* Refined UI and lots of small tweaks

We tried to make the app even simpler while adding a few missing things here and there.
We hope you’ll enjoy the update.

For those of you wondering why the API isn’t there, yet, don’t worry, it’s here and it’s working, indeed, we’ll be starting a private beta tomorrow.
Please, let us know if you’d like to help us test the API.

To celebrate this release with you, here’s a coupon code to get 50% off when upgrading or extending your subscription for up to 1 year: *newbugs*.

As always, please, “submit a bug”:http://16bugs.16bugs.com/ if you notice anything strange.
Or just send an email to support@16bugs.com if you’d like to tell us what you think about the new version.

You might already know it, but the all new version of “16bugs”:http://16bugs.com/ is almost here, which is why we’ve been so quiet lately.
A lot of thought went into it and we’ve been busy the past few weeks putting that thought into code.

There will be a lot of improvements, like per-project permissions, activity on each project — here, we adopted an a-la “Basecamp”:http://www.basecamphq.com/ approach, since I personally think it’s very useful to have a quick look at the activity and immediately being able to understand what happened —, better RSS feeds, per-bug email notifications and, finally, a fully working API — which will be released in the days after the launch —. Plus, a lot of small tweaks which will definitely improve the overall experience.

You might be wondering how long it will take for us to release the new version.
Well, it’s almost done, indeed, we should be running a private beta starting today or tomorrow — “let us know”:support@16bugs.com, if you’d be interested in taking part in it, keep in mind we won’t migrate your account, so you’ll be free to test and break things as you like without risking to lose your data.
If everything works fine, we’ll be launching the new version before the end of the year, otherwise we’ll wait a few more days and release it in 2008.

Now, back to “TextMate”:http://macromates.com/! :)

Last week, I was flattered to discover I’d been nominated by “BusinessWeek”:http://www.businessweek.com/ for it’s annual contest to find the best European entrepreneur under 26.

Given it all started with “16bugs”:http://16bugs.com/ “more than a year ago”:http://finotto.org/2006/03/27/16bugs-launched/, I felt like I ought to share this with all of you using 16bugs and making it what it is today.

You can “read the article”:http://tinyurl.com/yoltbs, “my bio”:http://tinyurl.com/yrhnnn and, in the end, “*vote for me!*”:http://tinyurl.com/2bzzwh :)

P.S.
We’re currently planning a general overhaul of 16bugs which will hopefully see the light in Q4, so make sure you send your feedback to “our Google Group”:http://groups.google.com/group/16bugs or send an email to support@16bugs.com.
Help us make 16bugs better!

Lately, we’ve been getting quite a good amount of SPAM on “our forum”:http://forum.16bugs.com/ and while we’ve got protections in place, a few messages a day still manage to get through.
That’s why I was thinking about moving the forum to “Google Groups”:http://groups.google.com/ which would also allow to use it as a mailing list — it’d be nice to make sure we’re always on top of what’s happening.

Having a hosted forum is good, but I must say that the latest version of Google Groups is not bad either. Indeed, we decided to go that way when we launched “Pagety”:http://pagety.com/.
By using it for 16bugs, too, you’d be able to use it as a forum or as a mailing list. Plus, we should be better protected from SPAM, because of Google’s great filter.

What do you think? should we move it?

Today, we’re celebrating 16bugs’ first birthday. Indeed, it was exactly one year ago when I “announced the launch on my blog”:http://finotto.org/2006/03/27/16bugs-launched/.

I must be honest here and say I would’ve liked to release a new version just in time for the first birthday, but the launch of “Pagety”:http://pagety.com/ really got into my plans, so we’ll have to wait a bit more to see it live. But fear not, it will come!

And as a way to celebrate, all our premium users will receive a free extra month on their subscription!
If you haven’t upgraded, yet, this is the time: upgrade your account before Sunday (April 1st) and we will add an extra month to your subscription.