We're now about half way between the beginning of 2012 and the 2nd aniversary of ScribTeX being reincarnated into the website it is today. So this seems like as good a time as any to lay out our plans for the future.

In 2011 most of my focus was on developing the new editor which is rolling out as we speak. Other exciting things included a doubling of our team size (from 1 to 2, welcome Josh!) and a doubling of our traffic.

Here's our manifesto for 2012:

1. A desktop-like experience. A huge advantage of ScribTeX is the ease and portability that it brings to getting set up with LaTeX. However, we're aware that the editing experience doesn't match up with that available on the desktop. Expect to see features like autocompletion, templates, tex/PDF syncing, code-folding coming to the new editor throughout the year as well as some general usability improvements.
2. Scaling our infrastructure. Our servers have been coping with the demand on them well so far. However, as our traffic increases we're going to need to start to think about how we can continue to grow the service. This is an exciting challenge which I look forward to keeping you updated on.
3. Increased support for API access, starting with the CLSI (http://clsi.scribtex.com) for remotely compiling LaTeX documents. We want to make ScribTeX a platform that others can build on to make the web more exciting and useful. The CLSI is open source (http://github.com/jpallen/clsi) and we hope to release more code under an open source license this year, so get your bug fixing hat on a dig in!

Of course, there are hundreds of other smaller goals that we'll be working away on as well, but these three points best outline the direction that we'll be taking ScribTeX in the future.