I heard he was working on a to-do list app.

Can't find the post now (think it was on HN or Ars Technica a few months back) but I'm fairly certain "the next big thing" Jeff's working on is re-imagining how a web forum should work.

I hope he cracks it - vbulletin and friends need to die!

Jeff posted a question in the Programmers Symposium of the Ars Technica forum asking how the members there felt about forum software.

Personally, I think the ars forum works perfectly. I can't stand newsgroups, for instance...i'd be in heaven if everything were vbulletin.

But maybe Jeff has something neat up his sleave!

Hopefully. I've been looking into options for fostering a small community around a new videogame, and I hate them all. Traditional forum software is much too heavy (registration, navigation), Vanilla is just strange, a subreddit is an inappropriate format (voting and the lack of long-term threads are a turnoff), and there's really not much else.

It's something that's long overdue for a shakeup.