Clean design, I like the UI
Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
#202I think this is an interesting idea, and would like to follow the progress.
My only complaint is that the site is entirely unusable without JavaScript. Perhaps consider including some content with in addition to the notice of enabling JavaScript. I get most sites aren't designed with NoScript users in mjnd, but being able to see a little information before whitelisting the domain would be nice.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
#203I think this is an interesting idea, and would like to follow the progress. My only complaint is that the site is entirely unusable without JavaScript. Perhaps consider including some content with in addition to the notice of enabling JavaScript. I get most sites aren't designed with NoScript users in mjnd, but being able to see a little information before whitelisting the domain would be nice.
Dude the world uses JavaScript, stop making these comments on every thread
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#204This is a good start, but I'm not a huge fan of this the way it is now. First, the font is tiny for my old eyes. Not all of us, especially hiring managers, are still in their 20s and can read these tiny fonts. I measured it with a ruler and the text is 1mm tall. Also, the font is gray on white, which is pretty but hard to read. In contrast, Linkedin is three times bigger and black on white, much easier to read. Secon…
These are fantastic criticisms. Almost exactly what I was thinking verbatim.
Back in 1960's, my dad worked as a draftsman. His work was impeccable. But once in a while, he got told, pretty harshly that this is a piece of shit. And he had to work 15 hours to fix a mistake. No, I am not talking about a typo which can be marked with a white marker. Hard-to-objectively-evaluate things like "Dimensions are just not as readable as they can be. You could arrange them this way, look. It's better." He told me to face criticisms, the harsher it is, the more passionate the criticizer is. Find out why they're passionately criticizing it.
I feel like criticisms on HN, Product Hunt, r/photography, r/design, etc. - we are too soft to not offend people.
I personally would want to be criticized as harshly as possible. I'd like to face reality in all its glory without drinking the soft-mannerism bs. If the design is shit, say it. If its great, praise it. Tell people why its great. Be honest why it sucks.
It's hard but if I am really interested in improving my skills, I don't want to be given lipservice. It is worse than not seeking feedback because it leads to self-delusion. It goes the other way too, don't be afraid to praise something passionately if you resonate with it and explain the reasons.
This is the society's mechanism for improvement and filtering out noise. If we don't do this, society becomes noisy and people who are really good at stuff are drowned in the noise.
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#205I really dig this. Well done. I like the collaborator feature. One piece of feedback, I almost missed the contact information at the bottom of the profile. Any chance of having a preferred contact at the top so it's harder to miss?
You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
It does! I guess I was hoping for kind of a more prominent option instead of another section, but that's a nitpick. Nice work again!
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#206A way to publish information (mainly the "About" rant) written in languages other than English may boost adoption.
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#207I stumbled at "Mindful", and then stopped fully at "He/him".
Yeah, what does “mindful” mean in this context exactly? Is it some kind of signal indicating adherence to a certain orthodoxy?
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
#208I think this is an interesting idea, and would like to follow the progress. My only complaint is that the site is entirely unusable without JavaScript. Perhaps consider including some content with in addition to the notice of enabling JavaScript. I get most sites aren't designed with NoScript users in mjnd, but being able to see a little information before whitelisting the domain would be nice.
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#209Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…
Hi, In the view of replies posted, I think profile pics (hereafter avatars) in colleague section are fine to have but dIefinitely not a necessity. IMHO, here is an optimal solution: Couldn't there be a two way option: whether i want to share my avatar in the circle, and if i want to look at other avatars? It would be pretty effective.Lets say, I'm not interested in avatar of your colleagues, so i can turn them off or…
I'm of relatively strong opinion.. but why just not have faces-in-circles anywhere? It would feel so liberating from all the social network gimmicks out there. To me it would then feel so real and down for business, rather than have a whole status/appearance signaling sub game.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
#210I stumbled at "Mindful", and then stopped fully at "He/him".
I had to Google what "He/him" meant then stopped.