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Project Hedgehog ( http://projecthedgehog.com ) was designed to address many of these complaints. The UI is almost completely keyboard-driven and fast, and stripped down to bare bo…

"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one." -- Mark Twain (according to wikiquot…

I tried to make the image buttons as simple as possible..they're just text surrounded by a drop shadow. I'm surprised to hear objections. Could you describe what you don't like abo…

Each dropbox url has a random code appended to the end, so spammers can't step step through all the drop boxes in order and pass in garbage. But otherwise nothing keeps spammers ou…

Thanks! That encouragement means a lot. Some of my other designs ( http://mushpot.net/ ) weren't so well-received by HN.. It was just dumb luck (plus aesthetic help from my wife) t…

Thanks for these suggestions. The design still isn't perfect, but I did get rid of the floats. I'm still thinking about what to do about the lost url problem. There should be a way…

Done! I agree, so the site is now http://instantcommentbox.com

SoundManager was central to this project. Not having to deal with flash saved me a lot of time and makes for a more lightweight player, I think.

Sorry to be a hater. I was gung ho OpenID for a while...simple for users, decentralized. But then I tried to get my wife and my mom to log into my site with it and they were baffle…

Looks like you created an account just to leave this comment...ouch. But seriously, thanks for the feedback. I was trying capture my feelings about FB before I lost them, and I'd b…

Nice to see that I'm not alone in trying to build a better social news site as a side project. And by the way, when you say "we", we all know there's only one of you. And forget ab…

I just finished an FC implementation on a site I'm working on. The site still has local accounts, but users can now connect their local accounts to their facebook account Facebook …

You only get votes when another user votes on something you post. The original source of all votes is an administrator/editor with unlimited votes. If there were rampant hoarding, …

Ah, hadn't thought of that. I'll fix it tonight.

should be fixed. sorry about that

I appreciate the feedback. The body of each item is black, so I figure you're referring to the header text for each item ("by:", "submitted:", etc.) and the links. I've darkened th…

When I played Duck Duck Goose as a kid, we called the center of the circle the "mush pot"...that was where you had to sit if you got tagged. I'd consider changing the name, but try…