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Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by TallboyOne » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 3:49 AM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #20

TallboyOne wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people have recommended this but I'm not sure the best way to really go about doing this... do you have any ideas?

While I am not a fully-fledged designer I would experiment with changing the background colour to an off-white, something like: #EFEFEF - you'll notice if you do that then things are easier to read immediately because content is being separated into its respected sections. The white you have around each submission is fine, changing the background colour seems to make it easier (at least for me) to read the site. Ther…

Thank you very much.. this is definitely something I will tweak simply due to the amount of people requesting it.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by greenranger » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 3:53 AM UTC

Bookmarked. Well done.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 5:35 AM UTC

I'm curious as to what deficiencies reddit has that made you choose to create a site like this. In other words, what features would reddit need to make you think that reddit solves the problem sufficiently?

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by TallboyOne » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 5:38 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #23

I'm curious as to what deficiencies reddit has that made you choose to create a site like this. In other words, what features would reddit need to make you think that reddit solves the problem sufficiently?

I didnt come up with that tagline, this was submitted by someone else. But.. for the full answer, see the FAQ (question #2 and #3): http://pineapple.io/faq

I apologize in advance for the typos, it was really long programming day when I wrote that part of the FAQ. I just noticed them now.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 5:40 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #23

I'm curious as to what deficiencies reddit has that made you choose to create a site like this. In other words, what features would reddit need to make you think that reddit solves the problem sufficiently?

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Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by astrodust » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 6:20 AM UTC

jaggederest wrote: post #19

Reddit also has /r/Design and /r/web_design as well, if you're interested. I think this is nice though, because the spillover from larger reddit hits those places relatively hard - I visit HN for the same reason, so this might be interesting.

Both of those are pretty desolate places. They're like some post-apocalyptic world where what passes for good design is just about anything.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by maybesofast » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 7:03 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #23

I'm curious as to what deficiencies reddit has that made you choose to create a site like this. In other words, what features would reddit need to make you think that reddit solves the problem sufficiently?

Well there's /r/technology and /r/programming, etc. Why do you visit HN?

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by _b8r0 » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 7:15 AM UTC

I quite like it. Had a look at the SEO tag and I was pleasantly surprised that on first look there were some useful articles in there rather than it being stuffed to the gills with spammy links. Same goes for the python tag.

I think the title is a bit wrong. This is more like a better quality tutorials link site to me, rather than Reddit. I was going to say more like HN but then I realised that a big part of HN is the commentary, which this site doesn't appear to have.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by TallboyOne » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 7:22 AM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #28

I quite like it. Had a look at the SEO tag and I was pleasantly surprised that on first look there were some useful articles in there rather than it being stuffed to the gills with spammy links. Same goes for the python tag. I think the title is a bit wrong. This is more like a better quality tutorials link site to me, rather than Reddit. I was going to say more like HN but then I realised that a big part of HN is th…

Thanks! As I mentioned before, I didn't really choose the title. According to the last 50 tweets on twitter however it seems my site has been coined 'the reddit of ___' .. ha. I dont mind though, I appreciate the encouragement from everyone.

Theres actually comments and discussion but I think it's in it's early stages still as far as finding it's flow as far as commenting, userbase, etc.

We also rule the site with an iron first for quality.

Re: Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

TallboyOne wrote: post #24

jedberg wrote: post #23

I'm curious as to what deficiencies reddit has that made you choose to create a site like this. In other words, what features would reddit need to make you think that reddit solves the problem sufficiently?

I didnt come up with that tagline, this was submitted by someone else. But.. for the full answer, see the FAQ (question #2 and #3): http://pineapple.io/faq I apologize in advance for the typos, it was really long programming day when I wrote that part of the FAQ. I just noticed them now.

That does't actually answer the question at all. :) You could easily accomplish that on reddit with some simple moderation. What actually makes this different?

Note, I'm not just trying to be negative, I'm truly curious as to how this is different.