Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
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Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
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Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#2I made this in the course of a couple weekends and wanted some feedback on how I can make it better. I've heard email notifications for comments and easier social sharing features so far, but I would love to know what else I can do to make it better.
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#3I made this in the course of a couple weekends and wanted some feedback on how I can make it better. I've heard email notifications for comments and easier social sharing features so far, but I would love to know what else I can do to make it better.
Please drop the "s around everything. The picture being there and the context forces me to associate it with a person and not the site, the "s are redundant. Especially in comments. Also scrolling is insanely laggy for me, I have no idea why, but I assume it's all the JS.
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#4I made this in the course of a couple weekends and wanted some feedback on how I can make it better. I've heard email notifications for comments and easier social sharing features so far, but I would love to know what else I can do to make it better.
Please drop the "s around everything. The picture being there and the context forces me to associate it with a person and not the site, the "s are redundant. Especially in comments. Also scrolling is insanely laggy for me, I have no idea why, but I assume it's all the JS.
Just pushed a new build that removes the quotes - that was one of those things that looks better on a mockup than it does in production.
As for the scrolling issue, it could either be the Twitter @Anywhere hovercards or the background (used some CSS hacks to make it scale with the window when you resize) - could you let me know what browser you are using?
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please drop the "s around everything. The picture being there and the context forces me to associate it with a person and not the site, the "s are redundant. Especially in comments. Also scrolling is insanely laggy for me, I have no idea why, but I assume it's all the JS.
Just pushed a new build that removes the quotes - that was one of those things that looks better on a mockup than it does in production. As for the scrolling issue, it could either be the Twitter @Anywhere hovercards or the background (used some CSS hacks to make it scale with the window when you resize) - could you let me know what browser you are using?
Google chrome, version 10.0.648.151 which chrome tells me is up to date. My operating system is Windows 7 and I have about 2.1GB RAM free out of 6GB total and CPU usage is at ~1%. I don't get the same lag in Firefox 4.
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please drop the "s around everything. The picture being there and the context forces me to associate it with a person and not the site, the "s are redundant. Especially in comments. Also scrolling is insanely laggy for me, I have no idea why, but I assume it's all the JS.
Just pushed a new build that removes the quotes - that was one of those things that looks better on a mockup than it does in production. As for the scrolling issue, it could either be the Twitter @Anywhere hovercards or the background (used some CSS hacks to make it scale with the window when you resize) - could you let me know what browser you are using?
That's odd - I tested it in Chrome on Windows 7 on a machine with similar specs and I don't have that issue. I'll do some digging around and see if there's something funky with that block of CSS or my JS
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just pushed a new build that removes the quotes - that was one of those things that looks better on a mockup than it does in production. As for the scrolling issue, it could either be the Twitter @Anywhere hovercards or the background (used some CSS hacks to make it scale with the window when you resize) - could you let me know what browser you are using?
Google chrome, version 10.0.648.151 which chrome tells me is up to date. My operating system is Windows 7 and I have about 2.1GB RAM free out of 6GB total and CPU usage is at ~1%. I don't get the same lag in Firefox 4.
Ah, thanks for that key detail about Firefox - that tells me that the scrolling background might be the issue since it does some browser-specific stuff in order to resize with the window.
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#8I love this idea. Good implementation too, the only thing i'd change is:
1) Add an overview page with a much bigger list of ideas.
2) Decrease the font size a bit. I could only see two or so ideas at once on the home page.
3) Perhaps add a voting system of some type?
You also might want to seed it with a bit more content, otherwise you'll have a hard time breaking out of the chicken and egg problem (that's what ended up killing me).
EDIT: I'd also add some indication that you aren't going to tweet as me.
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#9this is a great idea about... ideas
Re: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
#10I made this in the course of a couple weekends and wanted some feedback on how I can make it better. I've heard email notifications for comments and easier social sharing features so far, but I would love to know what else I can do to make it better.
Great idea and great domain name, but I would suggest that monospaced fonts and #6A6A6A text on white are not exactly the best thing ever for readability.
You can probably leave the colors the same if you just switch to a proportional font, add a smidge more of padding, and bump up the line-height just a bit: http://cl.ly/3x1n103K472Z1J2t3Q3k