Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

#1

Post by bdmac97 » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:08 PM UTC

Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site
cafecourses.com

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

#2

Post by pubb » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:23 PM UTC

Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X.

Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

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Post by villageidiot » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:38 PM UTC

pubb wrote: post #2

Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X. Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.

Same here - FF/Vista

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

#4

Post by pibefision » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

I personally don't like generic icons.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

#5

Post by bdmac97 » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

pubb wrote: post #2

Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X. Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.

I think the site is just under a bit heavier load than normal and until I get some more traffic it's running on a pretty low-powered server. Be patient please!

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

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Post by nop » Sat, May 16, 2009, 10:56 PM UTC

bdmac97 wrote: post #5

pubb wrote: post #2

Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X. Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.

I think the site is just under a bit heavier load than normal and until I get some more traffic it's running on a pretty low-powered server. Be patient please!

Pubb is right, it's the same for me. It works from /privacy and /courses. Clicking on it from the landing page returns 422 "Unprocessable Entity" as a response to the ajax call.

Chrome/XP.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

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Post by bdmac97 » Sat, May 16, 2009, 11:11 PM UTC

nop wrote: post #6

bdmac97 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the site is just under a bit heavier load than normal and until I get some more traffic it's running on a pretty low-powered server. Be patient please!

Pubb is right, it's the same for me. It works from /privacy and /courses. Clicking on it from the landing page returns 422 "Unprocessable Entity" as a response to the ajax call. Chrome/XP.

Think I fixed it. Sorry for that guys!

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

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Post by bdmac97 » Sat, May 16, 2009, 11:11 PM UTC

pibefision wrote: post #4

I personally don't like generic icons.

Neither do I! Want to make some for me for free? :-)

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

#9

Post by kajecounterhack » Sat, May 16, 2009, 11:20 PM UTC

Hrm "Get In. Get Out. Get Smarter." Don't like it already, sounds trite.

"Ya tai! - Hiro Nakamura, Heroes "

What has that got to do with anything? And it is "Yatta" not "ya tai."

The entire style of the site feels cheap too. I'm not sure, maybe the striped banner up top? You need a logo.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site

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Post by bdmac97 » Sat, May 16, 2009, 11:39 PM UTC

kajecounterhack wrote: post #9

Hrm "Get In. Get Out. Get Smarter." Don't like it already, sounds trite. "Ya tai! - Hiro Nakamura, Heroes " What has that got to do with anything? And it is "Yatta" not "ya tai." The entire style of the site feels cheap too. I'm not sure, maybe the striped banner up top? You need a logo.

Thanks for the feedback. The Hiro quote is just a placeholder until I get a good one to put there. I like Hiro. I'll fix the spelling though!

Don't worry, if I get some funding for this the first thing I'll do is hire a graphic artist to make it look better. One guy can only do so much.