i like the idea of guy murphy to rethink weblogs and wikis (and in his case topic maps, too) and try to find the beef of it. i am just wondering if you followed the same line with snipsnap? took the freedom to leave things out because you don't find it useful/practical/ ... would be interested to hear what and why.

Well we're always rethinkin what we do. Often you end up taken things for granted which are not.

Having a product makes it difficult though to tell people: We won't support this. In the case with WikiLinking we lost some users and there were some hot discussions but we didn't give in.

I think topic maps are overated. We have to support them in SnipSnap (and RDF/DAML too) because we're paid for that, but bottom line I would like to leave more out of SnipSnap. Right now we refactor the system to a micro kernel so people can add, change and remove what they like and we can remove stuff from the main distribution which should shrink in my view.