Upcoming Features

Ahoy! This page has been superseded by the Yubnub Blog.

Yubnub's goal is to be the definitive command-line operating system for the internet. I've got lots of ideas to make Yubnub better -- if you want to suggest improvements, leave a comment on my Yubnub blog post.

Here are some future enhancements that I would like to do:

Pipes, like: gim "porsche 911" | htmltidy | upload_to_flickr
Allow descriptions to be edited. Maybe keep a history of edits, just in case. But don't let the URL be edited -- that's etched in stone (unless you send me an email - I'll provide a "Request Edit" button for this).
Great idea from Sean O'Hagan: Make a script to do screen scraping to produce custom output rather than the whole HTML (somebody write a PHP or other script to do this! And someone with a lot of bandwidth please host it! Or I guess I could host it.)
Leandro Ardissone suggested allowing people to post comments for each command.
Leandro also suggested "aliases" for commands e.g. for the gim command you could make aliases called gi, googleimages, and gimage
Vaughn recommended an automated Craigslist-like "spam" vote. After a certain number of votes, the command will be disabled
Mat Balez and W. Van Hooste have both suggested auto-recognizing abbreviated switches. For example, "xe -amount 100 -from USD -to EUR" could also be entered as "xe -a 100 -f USD -t EUR".

And some minor things:

Track which commands get used the most, and which haven't been used in a while.
Set focus properly on command/new screen (either the Command or URL text field).
Nightly backups

Stuff that's done:

Report Spam button. Gotta deal with those infamous spammers. (And of course a "Not Spam" button, if someone is being mean).
Use flash.now for the "buckeroo" message. Just because.
Display times as well as dates on ls screen
Put links on the ls page for sorting in various ways, and hiding spam.
On front page, change title from http://yubnub.org to Yubnub (thanks ichigo)
Instructions for installing Yubnub in your browser address bar. The ultimate Yubnub experience!
Idea from Jomdom: Firefox search plugin
Idea from tr5: accessing Yubnub from the browser address bar
Text-to-speech (tts) command, using the amazing 30-word demo from AT&T research.
Somebody write a translation command! (e.g. tr en_to_fr You have beautiful eyes)
If person does not type in any parameters, set %s to blank rather than giving an error.
Friendlier error if you try to create a command that already exists.
Search - for example "ls dictionary" (thanks to John Gilman for the syntax)
Syntax for converting spaces to %20 instead of + signs (thanks to C Callosum for the suggestion)
Search descriptions ("search", "apropos", "man -k"). (Thanks Brett!)
Idea from carrot, Bill : "yubnub" command for Linux and other operating systems (could just call lynx, I suppose)
Allow multiple parameters by specifying %s multiple times. (Thanks Iain!). Update: We've got multiple parameters now!
Paul Webb had the idea of letting admins remove the "Mark as spam" link for commands that we know are good.
shanabak suggested making Yubnub do POSTs in addition to GETs Update: Sean O'Hagan has come up with a way to do this.
Paginate the ls output, as the command list might get pretty long.
Include link to read-only access to source code in Subversion. Update: Get it.