Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

The design is nice. One suggestion would be to better mimic the ui/colors/look and feel of WoW's ingame ui. Also add some sort of clan feature where someone can register a clan that they could also use as their clan/guild website so like a facebook group.

But disturbing too... A social network where instead of being about the users personal life, it is about a video game character they play. Luckily there are a boatload of people whose lives evolve around WoW so it could do very well.

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by aaron_vernon » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 7:43 AM UTC

Caligula wrote: post #4

The design is nice. One suggestion would be to better mimic the ui/colors/look and feel of WoW's ingame ui. Also add some sort of clan feature where someone can register a clan that they could also use as their clan/guild website so like a facebook group. But disturbing too... A social network where instead of being about the users personal life, it is about a video game character they play. Luckily there are a boatl…

Clan/Guild features are definitely something that I am interested in looking into. For the initial release, I just wanted to keep it simple and let the users tell me the sorts of extensions they would be interested in :)

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by mattmaroon » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 7:54 AM UTC

FWIW, I'm not a player, but your design looks great. I'm a little iffy about the menu links near the top. I feel like they shouldn't be separated, and could maybe use a background that's a little less translucent. Also the word "legend" is a bit tough to read and should have a period after it.

But the color-scheme and fonts are great. Overall it's pretty solid.

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by arien » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 8:55 AM UTC

Very nice, it could be a great resource for roleplayers (but then I'd remove the 'uber l33t' line, heheh).

I'd like to mention that the navigation through the journal entries didn't feel too easy. I'd suggest adding a link at the bottom of each entry to show the previous one, for example :)

Good luck with your site!

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by aaron_vernon » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 9:10 AM UTC

arien wrote: post #7

Very nice, it could be a great resource for roleplayers (but then I'd remove the 'uber l33t' line, heheh). I'd like to mention that the navigation through the journal entries didn't feel too easy. I'd suggest adding a link at the bottom of each entry to show the previous one, for example :) Good luck with your site!

Thanks for the feedback :)

So you were using the real time slider above the journal, but you thought that a previous and next link placed somewhere would help the navigation?

If so that sounds like a good idea.

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by arien » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 9:50 AM UTC

aaron_vernon wrote: post #8

arien wrote: post #7

Very nice, it could be a great resource for roleplayers (but then I'd remove the 'uber l33t' line, heheh). I'd like to mention that the navigation through the journal entries didn't feel too easy. I'd suggest adding a link at the bottom of each entry to show the previous one, for example :) Good luck with your site!

Thanks for the feedback :) So you were using the real time slider above the journal, but you thought that a previous and next link placed somewhere would help the navigation? If so that sounds like a good idea.

Oh! OK... I actually missed the slider... I was using the links on the right side (the archives). Now I notice the effect on the picture when I slide and it's super cool, but I think you could maybe make it stand out more somehow, I totally didn't see it.

Also, the slider is a bit far from the text, so I'm not sure I would have related it with the journal entries.

So, I guess I'm trying to say that you should show off the cool stuff a bit more so silly people like me find it easily :)

Re: Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site

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Post by aaron_vernon » Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 10:19 AM UTC

arien wrote: post #9

aaron_vernon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback :) So you were using the real time slider above the journal, but you thought that a previous and next link placed somewhere would help the navigation? If so that sounds like a good idea.

Oh! OK... I actually missed the slider... I was using the links on the right side (the archives). Now I notice the effect on the picture when I slide and it's super cool, but I think you could maybe make it stand out more somehow, I totally didn't see it. Also, the slider is a bit far from the text, so I'm not sure I would have related it with the journal entries. So, I guess I'm trying to say that you should show of…

Yeah I was worried that people may not see the slider. I am glad that you think it is super cool, so do I :)

I will look into ways to make it more noticeable.