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Re: Waffle.io

#21

I like how they set the price: $(function() { var price = localStorage.getItem('price'); if(!price) { price = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 3); localStorage.setItem('price', price); } $('#price').html(price); });

This is interesting. Any one know what is the reason to use "random" pricing? Especially only diff 1-2 dollars.

Waffle user here...they're just doing some market/price testing. They don't actually charge a fee yet.

Re: Waffle.io

#22
post #16
post #6

I tried to view on mobile and the page is unreadable. OP, if you are the creator of the site, please consider having some sort of mobile optimized page! (Even if it is just an info page)

Even a site that I could read on mobile would be good. Resizing doesn't help with this one so some text and images can't be viewed.

Rally Software, the parent behind this product, doesn't even have a mobile optimized version of their core agile product [1]. It's outrageously frustrating when I need to update my tasks or add stories on the go.

[1] http://www.rallydev.com/

Re: Waffle.io

#23
post #12

Come on people. I'm so tired of most of my comments being reminders to check your UX! http://imgur.com/82DqYXl I'll short out most, if not all, of your responses here. I'm on mobile. I don't care if you designed for the desktop web or not, most visitors will be mobile web. Just test it. And for Cthulu's sake rotate your phone 90 degrees to make sure it works.

This is the problem of responsive‐viewport‐by‐default in CSS frameworks: when people are lazy, the last state of that site is worse than the first.

Re: Waffle.io

#24
post #12

Come on people. I'm so tired of most of my comments being reminders to check your UX! http://imgur.com/82DqYXl I'll short out most, if not all, of your responses here. I'm on mobile. I don't care if you designed for the desktop web or not, most visitors will be mobile web. Just test it. And for Cthulu's sake rotate your phone 90 degrees to make sure it works.

Or use the iOS Simulator if you're on Mac. It's simple, it launches in seconds, you can point it to localhost on your machine if you're serving locally for testing, and you can check old versions of the OS with older versions of Safari (like 7.0 where you couldn't minimize the UI). In their defense users who actually want to contribute will likely be on desktop but I get your point. You're reading HN on mobile and wa…

Start by just using basic viewport size testing, resizing your browser or using a tool like Firefox’s responsive design mode (Ctrl+Shift+M, not sure about the shortcut on Mac OS X).

Re: Waffle.io

#25
post #12

Come on people. I'm so tired of most of my comments being reminders to check your UX! http://imgur.com/82DqYXl I'll short out most, if not all, of your responses here. I'm on mobile. I don't care if you designed for the desktop web or not, most visitors will be mobile web. Just test it. And for Cthulu's sake rotate your phone 90 degrees to make sure it works.

Or use the iOS Simulator if you're on Mac. It's simple, it launches in seconds, you can point it to localhost on your machine if you're serving locally for testing, and you can check old versions of the OS with older versions of Safari (like 7.0 where you couldn't minimize the UI). In their defense users who actually want to contribute will likely be on desktop but I get your point. You're reading HN on mobile and wa…

You can also use Safari web inspector for both the simulator and iOS devices, which is really nice.

Re: Waffle.io

#26

This is wonderful. The main page doesn't mention the term, but the easiest way to describe this is that it is adding a Kanban board to Github. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board The simplicity to effectiveness ratio of Kanban boards really impress me.

Huboard http://huboard.com is the Kanban board my employer uses for github and its pretty nice. It'll autoupdate if any team member changes the board.

Re: Waffle.io

#29

This is wonderful. The main page doesn't mention the term, but the easiest way to describe this is that it is adding a Kanban board to Github. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board The simplicity to effectiveness ratio of Kanban boards really impress me.

This does sound like a fantastic idea. Github issues are "things that are broken", so something that's "things people can work on" is great to have. Bonus points if you can sort issues by difficulty, so newcomers know what the easy pickings are.

Re: Waffle.io

#30
post #12

Come on people. I'm so tired of most of my comments being reminders to check your UX! http://imgur.com/82DqYXl I'll short out most, if not all, of your responses here. I'm on mobile. I don't care if you designed for the desktop web or not, most visitors will be mobile web. Just test it. And for Cthulu's sake rotate your phone 90 degrees to make sure it works.

You're so right. I'm not even able to read descriptions on my iPhone. I prefer to have a regular desktop site that I can zoom on, than a bugged responsive one which crop content...
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