Flock Beta (RC3) is half baked
Duncan Riley has written about the pending 1.0 release, and current RC3 flock release.
Flock RC3 is in fact what I am using to create this post — and unfortunately I’m not as pleased with Flock as Duncan is.
As Duncan points out, the blog editor is the weakest link — but also configuring it to publish to a self hosted wordpress site is also less than obvious. You have to select the “self hosted type”, enter the address of your blog, then select the “MoveableType” interface, and re-enter the full path to your blog + the xmlrpc.php file — couldn’t it at least pre-populate with the address I entered on the previous window?
Sloppy, like my spelling.
Flock also seems slow, much more so than a vanilla firefox install. My current machine is by no means fast (AMD 64 3200, 1.5Gb Ram) — but it no browser should feel sluggish.
The interface is over crowded and confusing.
The whole point of a browser like Flock is convergence of my “graph” — my part of the web — my blog will be a larger and larger part of that, so in a sense Flock’s weak blogging capabilities ruin the appeal for me.
In my opinion Flock is dead on arrival, but browsers are a matter of taste, so your mileage may vary.
Blogged with Flock
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