I'm on a slow-ish Wifi connection at the airport. It's fast enough for YouTube streaming but not for your site. So far on your site I'm looking at an ad with two things that say "Loading..." underneath.
Using Chrome on MacBook.
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#12Oh, if anyone cares: The site was built with jQuery and Knockoutjs with ASP.NET web service backend. The push updates come from a ASP.NET module I'm working on and will open source soon.
The design was done by a fantastic designer JR Harrell from Drawnn.
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#13I'm on a relatively fast connection (16mb down) and it took a significant amount of time to load for me (Macbook Pro using Safari). Perhaps enabling caching on your server will help speed things up some.
The site looks good otherwise. Good luck!
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#14I'm on a slow-ish Wifi connection at the airport. It's fast enough for YouTube streaming but not for your site. So far on your site I'm looking at an ad with two things that say "Loading..." underneath. Using Chrome on MacBook.
What you're seeing is what happens when all the active matches have been voted on and are over. The client is basically waiting for more contests to be created.
Yeah, didn't expect front page of HN. The contests are typically first dog to get 5 votes wins, but there are like 500 people connected at once right now.
I just changed that to 50, so now each contest should last longer and solve the problem...I hope.
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#15The back button is pretty broken after voting
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#16Just some feedback - it's something minor but it bugs me every time, I'm not sure about other people. Every new competition in addition to the type of competition dropping down (Best dressed, cutest etc) it also shakes from side to side.
I just find the shake unnecessary and a little distracting.
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#17Just some feedback - it's something minor but it bugs me every time, I'm not sure about other people. Every new competition in addition to the type of competition dropping down (Best dressed, cutest etc) it also shakes from side to side. I just find the shake unnecessary and a little distracting.
Over the top is my middle name. I'll have to tone it down. Thanks!
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#18WOW, what a great way to bootstrap submissions by using pictures of puppies available for adoption!
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#19Nicely done! I've seen dozens of these side-by-side pic voting sites, but this is the slickest interface, by far. Very entertaining -- good job.
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#20Great idea, I think this will be a big success.
Personally I don't think you should let people vote within a certain breed, its more fun as a free-for-all. That being said, it would be cool to browse through the top ranked within a breed. Most people will be interested in voting non-stop, but some might just be looking for a specific breed to adopt.
And now that I think of it, in order to better categorize the dogs you may want to use tags. That way a dog that is mix of two different breeds would come up under both.
Another thought, it might be cool to get the users fill in certain "stats", kind of like they do on the puppybowl but being becareful not to get come across trying to be too "cute" (I-can-haz speak to a minimum, I don't know maybe that's just me).
Either way, sweet site! I plan to keep my eye on it!