Hi everyone, thanks for the interest, Thimbl is not ready for public release, we are still working on it, so you'll have to patient. Regading why we use SSH: Because it is already available on your servers and is a standard, thus there is no barrier to getting started. Don't want to share "your" ssh password with some random website? No problem, how you implement access to your finger .plan files is up to you, create a special server with ssh service just for your .plan files, don't want to give your users shell accounts? creat a shell-less ssh service using something like conch or zope, etc whatever! Still not happy? Clone thimbl.net and run your own web interface! The point of using established standards is that everyone can do it there way. Thanks for the comments. With thimbl and thibl user can use any thimbl.net clone, and it make no difference.