Every time I hear the name, I have to re-remind myself that it isn't bootstrap rewritten in coffeescript.
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#22I think the HN-specific landing page is not as informative as the actual main page: http://boards.coffeestrap.com/#/welcome The HN-specific page reads like startup satire.
It's not, we're trying to put together people with different backgrounds, and different approaches to langauge. We started from the two context we were most familiar with. The line between what is satire and what is community culture may be kind of thin, especially for online communities such as HN. Don't you think? :-)
Other than hacker news, how many other targeted landing pages have you created? (just for my own curiosity)
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#23Every time I hear the name, I have to re-remind myself that it isn't bootstrap rewritten in coffeescript.
Same. And the Try CoffeeStrap button doesn't help.
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#25Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US. I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German). Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(
Why on earth would you want to learn danish? //Dane
Because Denmark is awesome? A few of my best friends are Danish and I would like to spend more time there.
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#26Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US. I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German). Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(
Hi! We're testing it out on a small subset of languages. Being it a peer2peer marketplace tool, we don't plan to restrict the amount of languages that will be included. Going to notify you as soon as Danish will be up! :-)
Swedish too!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not, we're trying to put together people with different backgrounds, and different approaches to langauge. We started from the two context we were most familiar with. The line between what is satire and what is community culture may be kind of thin, especially for online communities such as HN. Don't you think? :-)
Other than hacker news, how many other targeted landing pages have you created? (just for my own curiosity)
Another one for the University of Venice (Ca' Foscari) that we proposed to students/ex-students last week.
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#28You really need to improve the design of that website.
I like the design. What do you see as problems?
1. Line-height needs to be increased as lines are almost touching.
2. Colour scheme is terrible: green, orange, grey, pale yellow, orange on dark blue, dark blue text with orange shadow, green text on black terminal style popups, black text on asphalt texture, light blue boxes with grey text and dark blue headers, dark red footer with coffee table.
3. Lack of distinction between what is uppercase and what is lowercase. (And in general, just don't do uppercase like that as it's hard to read.)
4. Long-winded copy.
5. "Let Us Know Why" takes me to a team page. On the bottom is what looks like a gigantic back button. Where does the so-called back button go? Not back to the page which I was before I can tell you that. If it's a call-to-action it should be clear what it does.
6. Weird branding in the copy: text that jumps in between trying to appear professional/startupy and wanting to share a beer with you.
7. I just found a whole new introduction page: http://boards.coffeestrap.com/#/welcome I am so confused why more than one exists?
For starters. Realistically they need to work with a designer and start focusing on simplicity.
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#29I think the HN-specific landing page is not as informative as the actual main page: http://boards.coffeestrap.com/#/welcome The HN-specific page reads like startup satire.
Thanks this helps a lot, the HN page made it sound like a satire to me as well.
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#30Every time I hear the name, I have to re-remind myself that it isn't bootstrap rewritten in coffeescript.
I was disappointed to find out it wasn't! Although I guess it doesn't really make sense as a concept; maybe just the JS parts of bootstrap.