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Re: Open for everyone

#11

Post by danso »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Svbtle’s dashboard is designed to work the same way your brain works. It encourages you to dump ideas, links, and thoughts into a flow of draft posts, and then makes it easy to slowly sculpt those ideas into publishable articles. It just feels natural. This isn't the type of marketing copy that makes me want to use the product, and in-fact drives me away from it. Contrast with Medium's more neutral, objective copy: h…

If the copy is off-putting, it's because my natural cynicism that such text is used to polish up an otherwise mundane and common pattern...however, this copy gets a thumbs up from me for its relative lack of adjectives...e.g., none of this: "Svbtle's beautiful dashboard"..."It gracefully encourages"..."an amazing flow of beautiful draft posts"

Re: Open for everyone

#12

Post by minimaxir »

mijustin wrote: post #9

Open for everyone My first question is: "who is this for?" The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control? Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post. I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products:…

It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design.

Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.

Re: Open for everyone

#13

Post by taterbase »

debt wrote: post #7

I always thought the quality of the article was more important than the quality of the blogging engine.

It is. That's why dcurtis kept it so exclusive for so long. Svbtle now has a reputation for quality and can offer you the halo effect (for the time being). Surprised he isn't charging anything for it though. Quality will surely go down and dilute the reputation of just being on Svbtle.

Re: Open for everyone

#14

Post by noir_lord »

I like the functionality, I'm ambiguous about the design, there where a few times where I had to stop and really think about the UI to figure out where I needed to go or what I wanted to get back to.

I also (and this is purely a personal thing) find that much whitespace like staring into a lamp I suspect I'd be using something like stylish in short order (might be nice to have something like a night mode, readability does this really well see here.. http://i.imgur.com/dTMrqId.png )

That it handles zooming really all the way up to an insane level is great (I'm 34 this year and my eyes are crap..) and it looks really nice on my old Nexus 7 1st gen.

Kudos :)

Re: Open for everyone

#15

Post by minimaxir »

lhnz wrote: post #5

Anybody else get invited a few weeks back and now feel the pang of no longer being in an exclusive club? I need a hug. Aside: I think this is a great blogging platform that turns quite a few people away because of Dustin's bravado.

In my case, the "exclusive club" of "thought leaders" itself turned me away from Svbtle.

Re: Open for everyone

#16

Post by noir_lord »

danso wrote: post #11
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Svbtle’s dashboard is designed to work the same way your brain works. It encourages you to dump ideas, links, and thoughts into a flow of draft posts, and then makes it easy to slowly sculpt those ideas into publishable articles. It just feels natural. This isn't the type of marketing copy that makes me want to use the product, and in-fact drives me away from it. Contrast with Medium's more neutral, objective copy: h…

If the copy is off-putting, it's because my natural cynicism that such text is used to polish up an otherwise mundane and common pattern...however, this copy gets a thumbs up from me for its relative lack of adjectives...e.g., none of this: "Svbtle's beautiful dashboard"..."It gracefully encourages"..."an amazing flow of beautiful draft posts"

If you hate superfluous adjectives don't ever watch an Apple demo video (I suspect that is where the approach got widespread traction).

Re: Open for everyone

#17

Post by cliveowen »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
mijustin wrote: post #9

Open for everyone My first question is: "who is this for?" The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control? Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post. I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products:…

It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design. Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.

Medium wants you to have a Twitter account.

Re: Open for everyone

#18

Post by antidaily »

lhnz wrote: post #5

Anybody else get invited a few weeks back and now feel the pang of no longer being in an exclusive club? I need a hug. Aside: I think this is a great blogging platform that turns quite a few people away because of Dustin's bravado.

Haha. Yes.

Re: Open for everyone

#19

Post by plorkyeran »

orblivion wrote: post #3

I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.

It's interesting how much such an utterly irrelevant thing annoys me. There's really no reason why accidentally making a number increase by one should matter, but I suppose it's the fact that the site is falsely representing it as a deliberate action by me.

Re: Open for everyone

#20

Post by cshenoy »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Svbtle’s dashboard is designed to work the same way your brain works. It encourages you to dump ideas, links, and thoughts into a flow of draft posts, and then makes it easy to slowly sculpt those ideas into publishable articles. It just feels natural. This isn't the type of marketing copy that makes me want to use the product, and in-fact drives me away from it. Contrast with Medium's more neutral, objective copy: h…

Why does the copy drive you away from it? Serious question since I didn't think one way or the other about it.
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