Google play page says "Cannot be used in Turkey."
Hello from Orkut
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#92I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
If the concept here is a social network which brings us closer to people who have similar interests and are geographically close to us then that is really cool. But a couple things don't feel right to me.
1) No web app - honestly I'm over installing apps and being bound to my phone. You lost me here.
2) A bit of 'wall of text' explaining what this is and I appreciate that the orkut.com bit is heartfelt, but this is not the best way to pull me in.
3) No actual content from the network that I can browse on the web to understand through immersion (this is what is needed instead of or to supplement the about text).
4) 'loves not likes' - Without delivering on the other bullets here I didn't connect with the product and therefore this sounded tacky.
5) The best of the jots - makes me feel maybe this is instagram?
It just feels that the product planner is checked out or there hasn't been much conversation with the market or something. I guess I'd understand a lot better if I installed the app and signed up, but not going to, I shouldn't have to jump through those hoops just to understand the product.
Admittedly I am just an average curious passerby with a short attention span here so my $0.02 is worth just that, $0.02. But hello.com could be onboarding people a lot more effectively in my opinion.
Hate to just parrot everyone else but having no web app is the root of all of these issues I think.
Orkut was great and I'm over FB/Twitter, hope this does well.
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#93Yikes, crashed during registration, then after restarting it wouldn't let me upload a square profile picture (blocking progress on the crop screen), then once I took another picture it gave me a "Backend error" on the next screen, once again blocking progress. I give up. I hate to be negative, and I usually would cut a new app some slack, but the whole reason I am trying this is that I expected a high level of qualit…
Crashed 3 times on android before I could complete the registration.
UI needs work, if they add more countries they can not expect me the scroll down a list of 200+ items to find my phone country prefix. Just let me enter it.
For some reason on some pages the hamburger menu button is an actual hamburger while on other activities it is the standard 3 lines. I wonder if that is on purpose or a mistake.
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#94no no no no god no
It looks like a points based social network[0]. So I doubt they're going to be similar to snapchat/fb. With this I don't think many people are going to take it seriously, because some are going to take it very seriously and try to get to the top[1]. This is going to one of the many reasons that this will go to crap. This won't be living long enough to justify the purchase of the domain name. I hope I'm wrong because I hate fb buying/doing everything
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#95Why oh why does it need to be called "hello"? How the fuck am I supposed to Google for "hello"?
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#96I thought just the other day "if only there was another social network I could use instead of Facebook (and convince my friends to join it)...", so seeing there's a new social network by the guy who made Orkut sounded like good news. However, from the website, I'm not sure "connect with people and content around your passions" is what I want. I'll wait and see how this pans out.
and convince my friends to join it
To compete with FB you need to launch on day 1 with all of FB's major features. This is the mistake G+ made. Who cares about a social network with no Events for example?
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#97Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I see a large dissonance between this message and the 'hello' presentation. He laments that "we stay with locals when we travel abroad but we don't even know our neighbours at home", yet the new social network seems to push more in that direction (it talks about connecting people based on their interests, not their proximity). He says "we are afraid of what we don't know [...] we are…
I've not signed up (yet), but it can be both, right? You could have an overlap in interests in 3 of 5 things, and that means getting together with this person you have three things in common for sure, but also you can each introduce each other to 2 new things.
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#98PSA: There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to delete one's account.
If you're thinking of just giving it a go, keep that in mind.
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#99A. Major bummer I can only use a mobile device. First choice for this sort of thing is my desktop/PC. B. I had a lot of issues signing up. White screens of death, inability to progress further. Had to restart the app no less than 4 times to complete registration. C. Now that I am registered, I see a "Welcome to your folio" screen that doesn't let me do anything. What did I just download?
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#100still not available in my country :(