yonatan's blog

Even when there's not too much to tell! :)
we've just upgraded the site, this is a small upgrade - fixed some bugs and made a small change to the home page (when logged out) to make it more friendly to people arriving for the first time.
and if you really insist - we've also added the long awaited personal messages to invitations.

however, I've decided to upgrade this post by adding some borrowing and lending quotes:

first, my favorite:

It's time to introduce Traxtuff in arabic:

כן, באמת הגיע הזמן להציג את טראקסטף בעברית.
מה זה טראקסטף?
טראקסטף הוא אתר לעידוד שאילה והשאלת חפצים בין חברים.
איך?
קודם כל רושמים מה השאלנו ושאלנו מחברים -
כשמוסיפים משהו ששאלנו מחברה אפשר גם לשלוח לה הזמנה.
אם אתם לא יודעים את כתובת הדוא"ל, אפשר להוסיף משתמשים לא רשומים.

hi y'all! I'm very proud to present two new languages for Traxtuff - German (aka Deutsch, translated by lisalotta.p), and Arabic (aka عَرَبيْ, translated by SnowWhite and DarkAngel).
hope to publish blog posts in arabic and german soon. and perhaps in hebrew as well, since I haven't actually done that yet...

the new version brings some more improvements:

* better lend and borrow forms - we made it much shorter and smarter.

Team Traxtuff keeps blasting you with new versions!

this one brings a few changes:
1) better over all performance. mostly thanks to our hosting provider - which solved a problem in it's infrastructure that hurt performance. YAY!
2) better page load time - thanks to Wishcows efforts, applying some magic tech folks call "cache".

we are proud to present the new shiny multilingual traxtuff version!
two new flavours: hebrew boys and hebrew girls. since hebrew is a very gender aware language, we've made an effort to empower the girls a bit. it was also fun to write :)

to check it out go to the home page at www.traxtuff.com (the blog and forum stay in english, sorry), and on the top bar, opposite of the "Home Blog Forum" you'll see the language select box.

I hope the new version we updated yesterday solves the problem most of out users complained about - the capability to mark stuff as borrowed/lent/returned without confirmation from the owner/borrower.

we've been working on this feature for the last couple of weeks - writing it was pretty quick but watching users struggle with it made us go back and revise it a few times.

at the moment we introduce two familiar scenarios - "I lent an item" and "I borrowed an item".
in the future we hope to release more scenarios - "Request to borrow", "Give item", "Request to get it back" etc.

thanks to wishcow, you can now login both with your email + password or with your user name + password. for instance you can use either "moshe1978@gmail.com" or just "moshe" (if that's your user name).

the user names were made unique (before they were just display names), so use the fact that you are on the QT and grab the best ones before it's too late and another Dan, Ruthie or Mike join us.

(to do that, click on the "settings" link on the top links and change your user name)

good luck!

Traxtuff is a place where you can keep track of stuff you lend to friends, and also search for stuff to borrow when you need it.

The Need

Traxtuff was created because I desperately needed a way to track the stuff I lend to people.

half of my books, CDs, DVD's etc are lent, and I can't remember to whom.
and I still have the electric saw I borrowed from Maor's dad, two years after I borrowed it. I will return it though - I just didn't remember I borrowed until I found it recently.

I could use a piece of paper, but I want something I can access from anywhere.

Thanks Wischow for the great work, setting up the blog and forum!
in the next days we'll make sure the same same login applies for traxtuff, the blog and the forum, so you only have to login at www.traxtuff.com and you can access the blog and forum and comment.

Yonatan