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My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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Post by opportunity »

parker wrote: post #11
opportunity wrote: post #10

Can you provide RSS feed so that I can subscribe it in my reader?

Sure, you can subscribe @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChompChompDead Feedburner may have its faults, but I still find it very useful.

The feed has partial content. Can you publish feed with full content like TechCrunch or GigaOm does?

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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Post by parker »

opportunity wrote: post #13
parker wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, you can subscribe @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChompChompDead Feedburner may have its faults, but I still find it very useful.

The feed has partial content. Can you publish feed with full content like TechCrunch or GigaOm does?

Good point -- changed my raw feed info to full text. Thanks for pointing this out...

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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Post by jprobitaille »

parker wrote: post #7
kyro wrote: post #3

I think that's a really neat idea. I'd definitely visit. However, the design needs improvement. Please stop using that font. Add some color to it. Segment the site a bit more, it seems a little jumbled to me. Perhaps encapsulate each section of the site into it's own box, like the comedy pieces and 'the cast,' etc. I had some difficulty reading the links under your header image. Give your headings/subheadings/piece h…

Thanks for the feedback -- it's funny, I showed my design mockup to a bunch of designer friends, and they all said take the borders/boxes off of things, and leave as much white space as possible :). As for colour on the site, I deliberately left it monochrome with the intent of focusing your attention not on the surrounding bits, but on the text in the content area. I'm guessing this might not be working in that case…

Have any of your designer friends ever seen an issue of Army Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Man)? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page.

Anyhow, It looks like a really cool idea. Count on me to toss in some chum soon.

J

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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Post by parker »

jprobitaille wrote: post #16
parker wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback -- it's funny, I showed my design mockup to a bunch of designer friends, and they all said take the borders/boxes off of things, and leave as much white space as possible :). As for colour on the site, I deliberately left it monochrome with the intent of focusing your attention not on the surrounding bits, but on the text in the content area. I'm guessing this might not be working in that case…

Have any of your designer friends ever seen an issue of Army Man ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Man )? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page. Anyhow, It looks like a really cool idea. Count on me to toss in some chum soon. J

Man, I wish I could say the design was intended to be like something that cool! Alas, it's just a case of 'don't bite off more than you can chew' of working within my abilities. But that army man looks really cool. The best comedy is spartan in its presentation anyways ;)...

I look forward to your contributions. The Chum will basically turn into a chaotic comedy twitter I hope...

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