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Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#31

Post by natch »

If your goal for now is to let us give you feedback, you should put in some reviews for movies that everyone has seen.

I haven't seen those three movies, which makes it harder for me to gauge whether the reviews are any good.

On the other hand, some of the music reviews are transparently bad.

I'm not sure if the ratings apply to the movies, or to the reviews. And since the people doing the rating are probably also not sure, that makes the ratings less useful.

Will you have the ability for multiple users to compete to provide different reviews, which then are ranked as they (the reviews, not the items being reviewed) get rated by the community?

I could see this evolving into a cool resource, but it's hard to tell from what you've got so far.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#32

Post by kjf »

natch wrote: post #31

If your goal for now is to let us give you feedback, you should put in some reviews for movies that everyone has seen. I haven't seen those three movies, which makes it harder for me to gauge whether the reviews are any good. On the other hand, some of the music reviews are transparently bad. I'm not sure if the ratings apply to the movies, or to the reviews. And since the people doing the rating are probably also no…

Thanks for the feedback. The goal is definitely to cover a wider range of movies, not just new releases but new releases seemed like a logical place to start as these would be fresh in peoples minds.

The ratings apply to the movies/music and not the actual reviews themselves so maybe that's something I need to make clearer.

Voting on reviews is something I definitely want to incorporate so that might get pushed up further in the list.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#34

Post by MotorMouths »

ricosroughnecks wrote: post #23
waxman wrote: post #16

What does this do that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do better?

A few years ago, when Rotten Tomatoes began, it was beautiful in its simplicity. Now it's a bloated slow-loading mess. Just a few days ago, I was looking for a simple b.s. free site like this--and here it is!

Agree about how Rotten Tomatoes lost its way. But Metacritic does a very good, clean quick aggregation of movie, TV, and game reviews:

http://www.metacritic.com

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#35

Post by shortformblog »

Heh, it's a decent concept, but this site, however, is essentially MetaCritic with less staff.

I actually have a regular feature on my blog (http://shortformblog.com/) that's got some stuff in common with this. I call it "One-Word Album Reviews."

Here are a few samples:

http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-for...

http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we...

http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-no-vam...

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#36

Post by kjf »

shortformblog wrote: post #35

Heh, it's a decent concept, but this site, however, is essentially MetaCritic with less staff. I actually have a regular feature on my blog ( http://shortformblog.com/ ) that's got some stuff in common with this. I call it "One-Word Album Reviews." Here are a few samples: http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-for... http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we... http://shortformblo…

While we may draw some similarities to metacritic we also have the social aspect that they don't. Namely, you can follow other users on the site and see their reviews in your dashboard. You can filter based on people you follow so you only get the reviews from people who's opinions you care about etc...

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#37

Post by nzjames »

I'd drop the description on the Music/Movies overview page and add a recent/popular review. get the content of the site one step closer. when the user drills in then give them the description/synopsis.

Have faith in your content! Thats why you want people to visit.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

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Post by kjf »

nzjames wrote: post #37

I'd drop the description on the Music/Movies overview page and add a recent/popular review. get the content of the site one step closer. when the user drills in then give them the description/synopsis. Have faith in your content! Thats why you want people to visit.

Thanks, that's some good advice. I might experiment around with that. "Have faith in your content!", I like it :)

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new website

#40

Post by shortformblog »

kjf wrote: post #36
shortformblog wrote: post #35

Heh, it's a decent concept, but this site, however, is essentially MetaCritic with less staff. I actually have a regular feature on my blog ( http://shortformblog.com/ ) that's got some stuff in common with this. I call it "One-Word Album Reviews." Here are a few samples: http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-for... http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we... http://shortformblo…

While we may draw some similarities to metacritic we also have the social aspect that they don't. Namely, you can follow other users on the site and see their reviews in your dashboard. You can filter based on people you follow so you only get the reviews from people who's opinions you care about etc...

If that's the case, it'd be nice to see a look that was a bit less like theirs. To me, the site feels a little close to its inspiration.
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