In the past week we've made some performance improvements and also added a few new features to the site. You can now invite people to join your public (non-closed) projects by email address rather than OpenPlans usernames, including people who aren't yet members of the site: they'll receive an email inviting them to join OpenPlans and your project.

We're also now offering Xinha, a new text editor for your pages to replace Kupu. We think you'll find Xinha much faster and easier to use. We'll be releasing it sitewide soon, but for now we're just putting it in a few places on the site; there won't be any difference when you're editing pages in your projects. That way we avoid forcing an abrupt change on you, and we can make sure it's really solid and bug-free before we make it the default editor throughout the site. If you're interested, you can visit the Sandbox project to try it out. Please let us know what you think -- do you like it more or less than the current editor? Is there anything you need from it? Are there any bugs? Be in touch; we love to hear from you!