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Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

#14
This is really awesome. I have several thoughts to point out:

1. Why 'TOP TECH NEWS PAST SEVEN DAYS' is only gadgets? I only see tablets, iphone, android etc.

2. Why do you limit to only 3 top news. people may want to see more with just a small more>> link.

3. Windows 8 Tablet Appears Next Week (wired), Samsung’s New Windows 8-Powered Tablet May Debut As, Samsung to show off Windows 8 tablet next week 4. In 'PRogramming' tab, we don't see buzz news, instead we only see categories like Software Development, Android, Software Developer... I know that it is difficult to fix this but just wanted to leave it here.

You can make this fantastic by continuously improving. Keep iterating. Read on topic extraction articles or papers to improve accuracy.

I'm adding this to my everyday visit list.

Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

#15
Feedback: 0. The logo is way too big. Make it smaller. At least 50% smaller. This way people can have more of their screen estate used for reading the news and not for your logo. 1. Remove the underline from all text. It makes the text harder to read. 2. Add a sans serif font. 3. I love the spartan feel of the website, but you can add some color to it. For instance the 3 categories of news could each have a different color. (btw, choose colors which match) 4. Make the links a bit bigger. The text is way to small. I know I could zoom in but then the proportions just don't feel right.

Other than that, it looks alright.

Good luck

Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

#16
post #11

1. Awesome stuff. Keep iterating. 2. Honest feedback: Your category titles seem straight out of a topic modeling paper (see: David Blei). That is to say, as a fellow computer scientist, I get why they are what they are... but they're not very good.

Point 1 is the best bit of feedback here, and to a large degree pre-empts point 2.

But yeah, awesome, bookmarked and buckled in for the long haul.

Re: My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

#20
post #19

I don't really see why Linux should have a separate category at the top. Doesn't really fit the line of Business / Gadgets / Programming. Maybe add a category for UX/Design? Or maybe a category focused on startups? Overall, awesome project. Keeping an eye on it!

I agree about Linux. People using different OSes (fanboys) might mistakenly think that this site is mostly Linux news (the first impression is the most important one). You obviously don't want loosing this kind of audience. So add categories for other major OSes or remove Linux entirely.
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