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Basecamp: New Features Are Live!
17 Feb 2004 by Jason Fried
We’ve been hard at work listening to your suggestions and improving Basecamp on a daily basis. Today we unveil a bunch of new features. You can
read about them at the Everything Basecamp site. The most significant new feature is the
brand new Projects Dashboard. The new Dashboard gives you a much better global look at what’s going on across all your projects.
If you haven’t checked out Basecamp yet, find out what people are saying then take a look for yourself. 30-day free trials are available.
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17 Feb 2004 | JP said...
I like the updates, especially the new dashboard. One feature I'd like to see and haven't seen mentioned earlier: deadline neutral milestones. That is, milestones that are neither incomplete nor overdue, but just there. (Okay, yeah, I just want to see calendar posts, but doesn't "deadline neutral" sound cool?)
Overall, I love Basecamp, and I've persuaded our organization to use the app for all its (mainly internal) projects and file management.
I'd like to use Basecamp to replace our internal blog, too, but I don't want to lose our old posts and comments. Is there any way to import information into Basecamp? (Maybe via XML...?)
17 Feb 2004 | pb said...
How do I log in to my Basecamp?
18 Feb 2004 | Hayden said...
The new features are great . . just waiting for the ability to set a different timezone now (it's Wednesday afternoon here, but it says I posted on Tuesday!)
18 Feb 2004 | The Team Building Guy said...
As a company we use basecamp, and finally you listened to my suggestion!
Ok I was a little impatient but a big THANKS for me.
18 Feb 2004 | pb said...
I seriously cannot find a log in button anywhere on the Basecamp site. I set up a free plan and have no idea how to get back to it.
18 Feb 2004 | pek said...
I am stuck in the same boat PB.
18 Feb 2004 | Neil said...
Guys, you need to go to the subdomain site that you created when you signed up (eg. http://mycompany.projectpath.com/) - the login is there.
18 Feb 2004 | pb said...
OK, thx. Now I just need to remember what my subdomain is. Is there any way to figure that out?
18 Feb 2004 | JF said...
OK, thx. Now I just need to remember what my subdomain is. Is there any way to figure that out?
Check the welcome email you got when you signed up.
19 Feb 2004 | pb said...
I was just reviewing Meetup and it has a similar issue. It's not clear how to join. And even after you figure out that you're supposed to find your group first, it's still very awkward. I'm wondering if 37s is maybe a bit too clever in this respect? I don't think we're ready to move on from "join" and "log in" (and their various equivalents). I think these alternative join/login approaches are OK but I think they should complement traditional methods instead of replace them.
