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Thanks for taking the time to write your feedback. I appreciate it.

With PurpleRails, you will rarely be typing your password once you successfully login. It works kinda like Gmail/Facebook etc: you remain logged in for months at a time.

This page explains why password saving doesn't work yet: https://www.purplerails.com/blog/saving-passwords-why-we-hav...

I'll see if I can do something fancier than what I do now to allow saved passwords to work. I suspect that using a Javascript-based AJAX authentication system instead of a plain-old HTML form, I can achieve the privacy goals as well as ease of use.

I hope you will hang in there and use the current version until I figure out a way to fix this. Thanks!

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Thanks for responding. Another 'issue' I've noticed is that it logs me out if I don't have the extension installed and click on the installation button, which, as you might figure, is a pain to deal with when you have a 25 character password. I guess you're saving the web page data from the client side and not through your servers. Another thing I've noticed is that when I add a page, it takes quite some time to show up in the web app. Also, whats with the timer? Apart from these issues, I really believe in your idea, and I have been working on making such a system for myself for months. I wish you the best, and I hope you succeed. I'll update you if I find any new issues, since if all the issues are fixed, I can see myself using this as my primary bookmarking service.

I see it also saves content from emails and all that. That certainly justifies the need for extensive security. What are your plans for pricing? I suggest you don't take the route that Pocket did, $5 for anything and everything(which seems like a norm these days) is ridiculous.

You can go into the options and disable your email host. It's not the easiest interface :) but the format is hopefully obvious: it's a JSON array; if any of the strings appears as a substring in the page URL, that page is excluded from text-only or full-page saving.

Copy and paste the same thing into "Autoindex exclude rules" and "Autosave exclude rules".

Could you expand on your feedback on pricing? Can't tell if you're saying $5 is too high/too low. If you wish you can also email me (I couldn't find your email on your site).

That wasn't too hard, but obviously a non-programmer would have difficulty understanding it. But hopefully and quite possibly you're working on a better interface, so not much of a problem for the time being.

I've got another piece of feedback. The numbers seem to be off for me in the web app. I t says I have over 300 pages bookmarked, while the interface only displays 100(which seems like the more plausible number).

$5 is kind of a norm these days, and a lot of times, its too high, depending on what the service is. For instance, there's IRCCloud. Obviously, the interface is good, and they provide easy to use mobile apps, but all that doesn't justify $60 per year. Another example is Pocket. I really like their apps, but they also followed the $5 norm. They aren't providing me much value to be worth $5(every month) to me, so I switched over to Pinboard(which, by the way, is one of those few services doing pricing right these days). There are a lot of services that I can justify paying $5 per month for, cloud storage for instance, but a bookmarking service, nope.

If you want to see the kind of backlash Pocket got for pricing their Premium option at $5, just have a look at this thread on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/26qaif/pocket_intro...

The 300 number is probably correct. The UI shows the most-recent 100 pages by default. I'll be adding 'next' and 'previous' page links soon. I mostly use the search function since I have many pages saved, so it hasn't been a high priority.

You can list all pages you've currently saved by using adding '?n=10000' to the list page URL. Let me know if the 300 number is incorrect.

Thx for the feedback on pricing. Will take it into account.

Thanks for the report!

Logout if extension not installed is related to the same reasons why saved passwords don't work yet.

The timer is supposed to be a debug feature that I thought was off by default! :) It shows the amount of time you've spent in that tab. I'll turn it off by default in the next update. For now, go into the extension options and uncheck "show page view timer" (near the bottom of the options page).

wrt taking quite some time: the first time you save a page from a site, it's likely to take some time, since things like static assets will also be uploaded. Subsequent saves should be much faster due to dedup'ing which works well on static assets. Let me know if this is not the case.

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