Hey guys, I hope you don't mind me dropping in, but I noticed some Lifebar traffic coming from this site so I thought I would check it out. I'm the lead designer of Lifebar and would love to get more of your feedback if you are willing to share.
That is definitely in our gameplan. In fact, I already have an instance of Ghost up and running, but now I'm just working on ways to integrate it with Lifebar so it is not too jarring to use. We didn't want to simply just expand the character count without providing the publishing tools to properly draft and format your thoughts. I will be completely honest though, most of our users are actually asking for the 140 character summary to be optional, so we might have to tackle that request before we can implement increasing the summary capabilities. I would love to get your input as we develop that functionality though.
We completely get that being a stumbling block. We would love to implement ways where you could import your existing data from another system in to Lifebar, but many systems don't allow export, or the formats are not standard enough for us to easily develop for.
You mentioned Exophase and Darkadia. It looks like Exophase is more of an integrated solution for recent play history, gamercards, etc... We would love to integrate third parties like Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live, but other than Steam, without some sort of third party agreement, they can be very difficult to rely on, so we have currently put that on the back burner. I don't think we will be able to wait on that much longer though. Darkadia seems much more like a traditional cataloging service. Do you happen to know if they have any way for you to export your catalog?
Sorry for all of the questions, just really trying to make Lifebar something that is as accessible as possible, but not lose our initial focus of delivering something that's much more than a catalog service, but instead a visual representation of your lifetime with games.
