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Re: Prismic.io goes live

#11

Post by sunir »

A few things. I would expect a writing application to have incredible copywriting. You have to out-write the writers!

Here are some examples where the text could be improved, though really the whole page needs to be rewritten using the inverted pyramid.

1. "Api" should be "API".

2. "You're the skilled developer, so why would it be ok to settle for technical constraints as soon as there's manageable content involved?" is awkward. I actually don't know what you're pitching. What is manageable content? Why use a fill verb like "involved" instead of something concrete?

3. "prismic.io helps you make all your content adaptable to all possible designs." is passive. "prismic.io adapts your content to..." who knows.

4. "All possible designs" is clearly impossible.

Second, I still don't know what this does after reading the homepage.

Third, the title of this post was too vague. Maybe that was beyond your control. Did you submit it?

Fourth, almost all the graphics are not related to the application. Show don't tell!

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#13

Post by zubairov »

enoptix wrote: post #10

What are the SEO implications of this? I tried looking at their site (since they built it with their tech) and at the FAQ but couldnt find an answer. Is the content pulled via AJAX after page load? Or is it pulled server-side on the initial request?

I'm not the prismic.io developer but I believe it depends on you - how you fetch the content fragments from prismic.io. We are doing it on the backend, so it's perfectly searchable by Google ;) See here - http://www.elastic.io/blog/82796857416/why-we-chose-api-base...

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#14

Post by Xdes »

I'd like to see an open source version of this. I like the API centric approach to site building, but I don't want some third party to have access to all of my content in one place.

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#15

Post by Dorian-Marie »

A few suggestions:

* Make it possible to "Tab" between fields, same for using "Cmd-Return", "Cmd-A", ...

* Inserting an image is really ankward, as soon as I upload it, I expect it to be in the article/product/... but it's not, I have to "Select" it, and then choose some kind of dimensions, and the UI/UX for it is not user-friendly, I think you should show the image in the article images sections, and then have small icons for differents sizes, or just when clicking the image, then we can edit it.

* When you use the terms "Publish", "Live now", ..., I expect to see something publicly accessible, like even some kind of raw template of a website, or show me the API urls, because now I'm like hitting the "Publish" button and then nothing seems to happen.

* Also when clicking "Publish", "publish now" should be the default (eg: always have defaults for select inputs)

Otherwise it looks really good and I like the ideas.

Do you plan on translating it? Also, you say it's free, but then there is a billing section, etc..., do you have a idea how much it will be?

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#16

Post by mattmanser »

It's frustrating as this product looks like a great idea and looks well done, but you're leaving out all the important bits of information that I'd want to know immediately.

Do I have to request the the content from prismic with every request? Is it done client or server side? What kind of caching will I be able to do my end? What happens when you go down?

That website and especially the video are terrible at communicating (pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, arghhhhhh). I thought it was because I was watching it without sound. Turns out there is no sound.

It visually looks great, but the content itself is practically useless, classic style over substance.

And the API documentation is bad. What does the first section of the documentation even mean?

/api is the single endpoint of your content repository. You can learn and browse everything else from there. You should never forge any API URL in your code, as all usable forms (that define what URLs you can build) are available in /api (and the URLs might change as features get rolled out).

I (finally) found the api which is hidden in the help menu of all places and kinda can guess what you're supposed to do, but I think you've a few rough edges to sand off in the usability.

Gratz on the launch, but get someone in to help you write the copy and overhaul those API docs.

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#18

Post by sadache »

mattmanser wrote: post #16

It's frustrating as this product looks like a great idea and looks well done, but you're leaving out all the important bits of information that I'd want to know immediately. Do I have to request the the content from prismic with every request? Is it done client or server side? What kind of caching will I be able to do my end? What happens when you go down? That website and especially the video are terrible at communi…

We've answered most of your question in our blog, take a look at https://blog.prismic.io

It is very hard to talk technical specificities on the homepage while staying understandable for everyone. There is a big room for improvement for sure (and that's what we're targeting), so thanks for your feedback.

Also we'll keep working on our API and development kits documentation, any help is appreciated.

Our API has a cache forever semantics explained here https://blog.prismic.io/UzQYNwEAAGIjZ3UZ/immutable-documents...

It is a Restful API, that's why there is a single entry point, all follows programatically from there.

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#19

Post by beshrkayali »

sunir wrote: post #11

A few things. I would expect a writing application to have incredible copywriting. You have to out-write the writers! Here are some examples where the text could be improved, though really the whole page needs to be rewritten using the inverted pyramid. 1. "Api" should be "API". 2. "You're the skilled developer, so why would it be ok to settle for technical constraints as soon as there's manageable content involved?"…

I really hate this kind of comments. It wouldn't hurt to be a little constructive while criticising someone's work.

Re: Prismic.io goes live

#20

Post by tlogan »

I would suggest to clean up landing page and clearly explain what is prismic.io. I tried to figure out that from the landing page, but no luck. And if you are not native English speaker - use that in your advantage. Write short sentences.
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