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FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?
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#2Link: http://www.fanstate.com
Its a digg like website for football (soccer) news that I launched yesterday. It allows you to gain points (like Digg/Reddit) and then wager those points on matches being played.
Built using Ruby on Rails. Thoughts?
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#3quick impression: font letter spacing is a bit too much.
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#4quick impression: font letter spacing is a bit too much.
Okay.. I'll fiddle with it :) Thanks
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#5Is there a reason you are not displaying the logged in user's login name? I think people tend to expect that.
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#6Is there a reason you are not displaying the logged in user's login name? I think people tend to expect that.
You mean at the very top?
Edit: I see. I'll change it so that instead of "Logged In" it displays the username
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#7Is there a reason you are not displaying the logged in user's login name? I think people tend to expect that.
You mean at the very top? Edit: I see. I'll change it so that instead of "Logged In" it displays the username
preferably at the top where it says 'Logged In!'
It looks like something that could be fun. Most soccer/football news sites suck pretty bad. The use your 'karma' to 'bet' on fixtures is pretty clever. But to be fun it will need a community.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean at the very top? Edit: I see. I'll change it so that instead of "Logged In" it displays the username
preferably at the top where it says 'Logged In!' It looks like something that could be fun. Most soccer/football news sites suck pretty bad. The use your 'karma' to 'bet' on fixtures is pretty clever. But to be fun it will need a community.
Yea I know. I'm going to try and slowly ramp up the website. Thanks for your input and participation. Great find on the St. Paul video. Hope you keep coming back.
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I added some tags when I submitted an article. But they sort of disappeared which was confusing. Will they eventually be displayed elsewhere along with the article? Will I be able to search by tag?
http://www.fanstate.com/tag/MLS maybe?
How do I make a bet?
I also think you shouldn't track 'karma' and 'points'. It is too confusing for a 'harmless bit of fun' website. Let the people bet their real karma. Why not? If they lose it they will be driven to participate more. You could display subtotals of how much karma was gained/lost due to site activity and how much was gained via skillful betting. That way someone with a lot of activity but a bad betting record could have a total like [r7000 (8 488 -480)] maybe colour-coded or something. I think if you want to make a distinction a single total with subtotals makes more sense. If people aren't betting their actual karma I don't think they'll take the bets seriously.
Just some ideas.
Re: FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?
#10Link: http://www.fanstate.com Its a digg like website for football (soccer) news that I launched yesterday. It allows you to gain points (like Digg/Reddit) and then wager those points on matches being played. Built using Ruby on Rails. Thoughts?
"...allows you to gain points (like Digg/Reddit) and then wager those points on matches being played."
That's a really nice idea! Good luck with it.