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"When I'm writing, I want to have no distractions, so I removed all of them." When I'm reading it is the same damn thing. You have TWO flashing beacons.
They are super subtle, how are they even remotely distracting?
If they were longer like the breathing sleep LED on apple laptops it would be less noticeable.
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It's definitely bad UX. Curtis tries to brush away criticism with his claim that the "kudos" number is "an otherwise meaningless number," but this argument is fatally flawed. Plenty of things that human beings use for social signaling are, when removed from context, technically "meaningless", but within context they can hold plenty of meaning. In the case of Curtis's website, the "Kudos" counter is implied to display…
I disagree with your outright deceit allegation, because the number of people who enjoyed the article enough for a kudos is sure to be less than the number of people who bothered with the widget in the upper-right corner of the screen. I wish I had a study handy but it's well-established that far fewer people who read an article continue interacting with the page after they're done. For me to believe that it's a seri…
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I didn't laugh but I found that incredibly arrogant and pathetic.
His "about me" section already describes him as a superhero, so clearly you are just not awesome enough to understand how awesome he is. (How many people have you gotten fired from American Airlines?)
Wait. This isn't some downloadable blogging engine? I'm disappointed. If that "creative, intelligent and witty" bit isn't sarcasm, how about the guy 'puts up' and offers the code for download? Unless this is the guy's business plan and he just doesn't want to kill his server. But this really looks like an "I built this really cool thing for me and some friends and you can't play" kind of thing.
"When I'm writing, I want to have no distractions, so I removed all of them." When I'm reading it is the same damn thing. You have TWO flashing beacons.
"When I'm writing, I want to have no distractions, so I removed all of them." When I'm reading it is the same damn thing. You have TWO flashing beacons.
I cloned it in Ruby on Rails and wrote about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744237
Do you think it's okay to rip-off something just because you think it shouldn't be invite only?
This is so important. I’ve been using SimpleNote to the same effect. I just handle the publishing part separately; I publish so rarely that it doesn’t make sense for me to couple the two together.
When I have an idea, no matter how developed, I throw it into the ideas pane. This creates a physical scrapboard for organizing my thoughts. I work on ideas over time, and, when one of them becomes developed or good enough, I'll publish it and it'll move over into the published column. This is so important. I’ve been using SimpleNote to the same effect. I just handle the publishing part separately; I publish so rarel…
I like the "ideas pane" a lot. I have exactly the same workflow, except my "ideas pane" is just a text file in Dropbox. I work on posts there until they're big enough to paste into my blog. I'm not really interested in running my blog on someone else's platform, though (I realize I'm in the minority here).