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Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kloncks »

bendtheblock wrote: post #9

Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content. The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sig…

I really like this idea. You can allow A LOT more people to sign in and interact (without directly signing up with you) if you let them use the site with their Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kjf »

bendtheblock wrote: post #9

Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content. The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sig…

Definitely. It's already possible to tweet a review by hovering over it. This should display a few different ways of sharing it. If you select twitter then it will shorten the permalink to the review, add a #onesentencereview hashtag and populate the status with as much of the review comment as can fit in the remaining space.

I have certainly thought of reversing this this by checking for the #onesentencereview hashtag and populating the review that way. Might be a cool weekend project for me to do while watching the Oscars.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by ErrantX »

chaosmachine wrote: post #11

I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews".

Additionally the reviews underneath the movies further down the page are light grey and non-obvious.

That would strike me as something to make obvious - over the film blurb.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by petervandijck »

Great idea.

But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by petervandijck »

petervandijck wrote: post #15

Great idea. But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all.

Ah hang on.

I see now that you do have reviews. The reviews should be front-and-center on the homepage (and make it simpler), NOT the summaries. I wouldn't even show the summaries, they just get in the way.

Overall, the design is slick but there's too much going on, conflicting with your goal of simplicity in 1-sentence reviews.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kjf »

ErrantX wrote: post #14
chaosmachine wrote: post #11

I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews".

Additionally the reviews underneath the movies further down the page are light grey and non-obvious. That would strike me as something to make obvious - over the film blurb.

Thanks, this will definitely be on my list of things to fix. When you've been working on something for so long the non-obvious stuff tends blur as you know the site like the back of your hand. Getting a fresh pair of eyes on it really makes a difference.
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