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Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

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Post by sanjasarin »

gnicholas wrote: post #11

The buttons at the top are not super obvious, but there are no tooltips to tell you what they are. So I clicked on several and got a sense of what most do, but I didn't want to click the last one (which appears to be log out). Please offer tooltips! (And consider icons that are easier to discern.)

Multiple users pointed out the tooltip issue and we completely agree with you. It's something we'll fix next week.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

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Post by sanjasarin »

apankrat wrote: post #18

OK, gave it a try. 1. Sign-up process has too many pointless hurdles. If you have restrictions on the password format, mention them upfront rather than revealing them one at a time after each failed attempt. Better yet, just don't enforce any password restriction at all, until they decide to become a paying customer or there's something else on a record worthy of protection. Error reporting on the sign-up form is bad…

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We'll get someone to check what is going on with that particular search query.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

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Post by sanjasarin »

gnicholas wrote: post #17

I did a search on the word dyslexia (my product is heavily used by people with dyslexia), and most of the top results were based on articles that did not use that word at all. They were more likely to be about autism, ADHD, or deafness. In fact, out of the 234 results, the word "dyslexia" only appeared 4 times. Unless there is something magic going on that I don't understand, this seems like a pretty critical failing…

Thanks for testing beta version of Postbag. We'll check that particular query to see what went wrong.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

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Post by skilled »

Aren't services like this one of the reasons that publishers gets dozens of spam emails every day?

E.g. "I read your article [link] and thought this [link] would be a great addition!"

I still get around 100 emails every month to a 6 year old address that I used for publishing purposes.

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