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Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

#11
If I try searching for a friend by using their last name (easier in this case), it starts to match the name in the autocomplete but drops out once I've typed the full name for some reason...

also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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If I try searching for a friend by using their last name (easier in this case), it starts to match the name in the autocomplete but drops out once I've typed the full name for some reason... also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search

I forgot to say, awesome work and I like the visual look and feel and it does feel snappier than the real FB but still don't see why I should use it... maybe I don't "get" it?

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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If I try searching for a friend by using their last name (easier in this case), it starts to match the name in the autocomplete but drops out once I've typed the full name for some reason... also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search

I forgot to say, awesome work and I like the visual look and feel and it does feel snappier than the real FB but still don't see why I should use it... maybe I don't "get" it?

Thanks for the feedback. At the moment there are not many differentiating features compared to Facebook, but I have a bunch planned. There are a lot cool things you can do when you are a intermediary between the user and all their Facebook data.

My guess is the target demographic is younger women or just women in general. Not to sound sexist but in my experience women browse Facebook photos in a much higher degree than males.

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Too bad I do not have a FB account, but the screenshots look awesome. The stream page is kinda taking away from it, imo. I would focus 100% on photos.

I agree with this. It seems to me that Facebook puts most focus on the feed and that's hard to compete with. Flipboard has a nice take on this - unfortunately, locked in an app instead of on the web.

You have done a great job with the rest, navigation, and image browsing. There were a few glitches, the user info box and posts in the feed with images in them could use some finish.

All in all, great job and I think I understand where you're going with this!

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

#17
Is there any purpose in having a sign-up? If you're already linked to the user's Facebook account, isn't this enough?

Is it not a one-to-one relationship between Portrit and FB account?

The UI for 'likes' is confusing. The icon seemed very foreign, and the whole idea of putting profile pictures of people who have liked the post on the right isn't intuitive either.

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Your email validation code is too strict. From Wikipedia: The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters: Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z) Digits 0 to 9 Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively (e.g. Jo…

Thanks, I will update the regex in the next release.

You should use the HTML5 email field:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Is there any purpose in having a sign-up? If you're already linked to the user's Facebook account, isn't this enough? Is it not a one-to-one relationship between Portrit and FB account? The UI for 'likes' is confusing. The icon seemed very foreign, and the whole idea of putting profile pictures of people who have liked the post on the right isn't intuitive either.

The login is it limit the amount of users. This is what the key is for. When we officially launch this will be removed.

I agree that the like icon could use some work. The idea behind showing profile pictures of likes instead of names is one of the main ideas of Portrit. We are trying to limit the amount of text and promote discovery that may not have happened if the name was shown. We will look into making this action more intuitive.

Thanks for the feedback.

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