Neat! I was just thinking that we need something like this for our family, instead of emailing each other news articles all the time.
Since this is RoR-based, I assume it's RESTful?
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#22Little tip: On the sign-up page, there's a big line between the "Set Up Your Account" and "Set Up Your Site" form. It looks as if it are two separate forms and you should choose one. Maybe you can tinker with it a little bit to make it look more as one whole.
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#23Neat! I was just thinking that we need something like this for our family, instead of emailing each other news articles all the time. Since this is RoR-based, I assume it's RESTful?
Ok, so I created an account; it was a great experience. There are several requests I have:
1. Let users add custom CSS to it, so they can customize it the way they want. 2. Let users add a custom subdomain.
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#24Cool. Simple design. Very easy to get started. http://ghost.slinkset.com
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#25Add a username/password captions to the login form on your homepage.
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#26holy shit, you nailed the signup experience. I'm wondering though, by not verifying emails or even having a captcha, are you worried about undesirables turning your site into a spam/link farm?
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#27How is this different than user created reddits on reddit? The only difference I see is that you can change the colors here. However, I will say that the colors are nice. :)
Yeah that customizable themes idea never worked out for myspace, or blogs, or web stores....
Regular people go crazy for that stuff. They should expand on this feature even more.
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#28Good idea, good execution. High five.
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#29Design thing that irks me: Seems like a number of mouse hovers trigger an object to get duller rather than brighter. That seems like the opposite of what you want to happen.
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#30Neat! I was just thinking that we need something like this for our family, instead of emailing each other news articles all the time. Since this is RoR-based, I assume it's RESTful?
Ok, so I created an account; it was a great experience. There are several requests I have: 1. Let users add custom CSS to it, so they can customize it the way they want. 2. Let users add a custom subdomain.
Cool. Both of those are on our todo list. Using an arbitrary domain works, but we haven't put it in the ui because it requires some work from the user and we want to make sure there is appropriate help so that it does not confuse anyone.