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Re: Rate my startup - deegr

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Roger that; we'll make tooltips I guess.

One-word summaries would suffice, actually, now that I've managed to figure out what they do. How about "deegList", "Trailer", and "Review"?

Once you know what thr icons are about, it's better to have icons; less test, visually more appealing.

How about that? At first it shows-up like words; once you've clicked one, it only ever comes back as an icon. ?

Re: Rate my startup - deegr

#32

The custom scrollbar on the recommendation summary loses the un-click sometimes, and keeps dragging as I move the mouse even with the button up. It also requires much more precision to grab with the mouse. Please, consider just using the browser's native scrollbars there.

I see what you mean. No one has complained so far among our current users, but you're probably right that it can be annoying. We'll look for a way to fix that issue.

Re: Rate my startup - deegr

#33

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One-word summaries would suffice, actually, now that I've managed to figure out what they do. How about "deegList", "Trailer", and "Review"?

Once you know what thr icons are about, it's better to have icons; less test, visually more appealing. How about that? At first it shows-up like words; once you've clicked one, it only ever comes back as an icon. ?

That would make it hard to get used to the interface. If you're really attached to the icons, I'd suggest leaving them, and just providing the text as tooltips.

Also, clicking on it once doesn't mean a user will know or remember what it does. :)

Re: Rate my startup - deegr

#34

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Thanks a lot Josh, that's some heavy feedback. We'll take some time this week to search & fix the translations you reported. As for the mainstream recommendation, I've edited the original post: we'll soon let you users get rid of mainstream recommendations in a single click. Regarding the scale starting at 0 instead of 0.5, that's because you have to give them a .5, that's for several reasons: for example, you wouldn…

I don't think an option to hide mainstream recommendations does quite what I want. That would help when looking for more out-of-the-way hidden gems for recommendations, but it doesn't help when trying to rate films I've seen to improve the quality of my circle. I'd still suggest that you propose rating movies that polarize people heavily, as a partitioning technique. This works both in the general case (show me movie…

Polarizing the ratings seems like a nice way to quickly make them go their own way, indeed. With our algorithm, rating 'not popular' movies works just as well actually; but maybe we should also show movies people shoulDN'T like? I had given thoughts about it, but the layout is already kind of 'full', so it's not very easy. We'll definitely look into it though; thanks a lot.

No, we don't currently take into consideration movies that have been muted or added to the deegList, but just like the polarization, we've already given thoughts about it (especially for this) and will probably take it into account in the next algorithm update. Thanks again ;)

Re: Rate my startup - deegr

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I don't think an option to hide mainstream recommendations does quite what I want. That would help when looking for more out-of-the-way hidden gems for recommendations, but it doesn't help when trying to rate films I've seen to improve the quality of my circle. I'd still suggest that you propose rating movies that polarize people heavily, as a partitioning technique. This works both in the general case (show me movie…

Polarizing the ratings seems like a nice way to quickly make them go their own way, indeed. With our algorithm, rating 'not popular' movies works just as well actually; but maybe we should also show movies people shoulDN'T like? I had given thoughts about it, but the layout is already kind of 'full', so it's not very easy. We'll definitely look into it though; thanks a lot. No, we don't currently take into considerat…

You might find this useful: http://times.usefulinc.com/2007/03/06-sparklines

Note the second and third cases under "middle ranking". That seems like a category of films you should present to help add more nuance to a user's ratings and circle.

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