Looking for suggestions for this site I whipped up to play around with twitter some, and to unclog my main twitter page of all the cyclists I was following.
Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
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Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#2Here's the clickable link:
I'm looking for ideas of fun/cool things to do with it to make it more interesting.
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#3Erm I'm sorry but... What is it?
Is it just a live search of twitter for some term?
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#4i'm not sure what more you can do, but a good start would be to clean it up. the layout is broken for me.
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#5i'm not sure what more you can do, but a good start would be to clean it up. the layout is broken for me.
The layout is broken for me as well (Safari 4).
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#6Erm I'm sorry but... What is it? Is it just a live search of twitter for some term?
It's a collection of professional bike racers on twitter. I guess most technical people could follow them all, but not everyone wants to do that, and not everyone wants to track down new ones, and not everyone is "technical people" either.
It's definitely not aimed at a general audience - if you don't know who Ivan Basso and Cadel Evans are (on the front page right now), it's not for you. But maybe you have some fun ideas just the same:-)
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#7i'm not sure what more you can do, but a good start would be to clean it up. the layout is broken for me.
Hearing that really made me lose it. I am so f'ing sick of HTML and CSS not working properly from one browser to the next... and the damn thing is pretty simple, and uses a CSS "framework" (blueprint) to boot. It works fine in FF and Konqueror.
Thanks for letting me know, though:-(
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#8Not sure this is the best way to unclog the twitter feed. Something like a group in Tweetdeck would work really well to solve that problem.
Though, maybe you can do some neat things with this idea.
First thing that is apparent to me is that there is too much noise. This needs to be reduced in order for me to read this feed. Maybe an up vote system (HN, reddit, etc) to stress important tweets. You could also stress the important tweets with some other metric (number of replies, number of followers, etc).
Second thing that is apparent is that I don't know who half of these cyclists are. I need to know why I am reading x person's tweets. You could expand the bio pages to include more information on the each cyclist (full name, team, rankings, wikipedia link, etc). Also, I want a list of the cyclists that are being tracked.
Re: Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions
#9I wouldn't put all those messages up there with my own copyright notice. Besides that, I only see profile pics next to a few cyclists, so that could use a fix. Seems like this could be useful to someone in that community--maybe try pulling out trends, the way Twitter does across the whole service.