"the text under the logo is editable by anyone, so you see the most recent change." -- Did this function cause an error?
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#12When I go to the site (Firefox & Chrome on Linux), I can't enter any search. I see the logo, with the text 'Song Rabbit' below, and when I click on the text it disappears. But I don't see any text input fields.
Something just went down, working on getting it back up right now. Sorry about that
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#13"the text under the logo is editable by anyone, so you see the most recent change." -- Did this function cause an error?
Yup. Should be fixed now
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#14It isn't working for me. Tried Safari and Firefox.
Should be fixed, sorry about that
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#15I can't figure out how to do anything here. I click the text below the logo and it disappears, and nothing else happens.
Try again, we just went down for a few minutes
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#17You should integrate more sites (assuming that's how this works). A query that I expect to work is "Simeon's Dilemma", which currently returns no results.
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#18Most of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.
That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.
I really like the site. One feature I would like to see implemented would be comments on each individual song. That's one of the main reasons I look up the lyrics, too see what the song means to other people.
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#19Lots of AJAX with no state in the url. Means I can't send my friends to a search results page (bad) or to a lyrics page (worse).
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#20Nice! Sadly, the first lyric I thought to try ("song that doesn't end") didn't work. :)
The links at the upper right are so faint they almost disappear; a bit more contrast, please.
How do you plan to deal with the copyright issues that will inevitably get thrown at you? Your "legal" link says you don't store any copyrighted material, but I don't see any evidence that you load it from elsewhere, and in any case that hasn't protected the numerous "link sites" out there. I personally think you've done something awesome and reasonable here, but you will get hit by this at some point.