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Post by dcurtis »

DaniFong wrote: post #88
dcurtis wrote: post #45

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But News.YC prides itself on having both a terrible user interface and a terrible user experience. What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without giving any detailed information about what it does? Only news.yc! --edit I wonder why I am being modded down. Maybe I said it too sarcastically. News.YC really does have a terrible interface. Look at the account settings page-- imagine yourself as a user who has nev…

Shiny graphics do not a user experience make.

Of course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by DaniFong »

dcurtis wrote: post #91
DaniFong wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shiny graphics do not a user experience make.

Of course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.

There seems to be some disagreement over what we mean by 'user interface' and 'user experience'. Those who downmodded you probably thought 'I like using YC news just fine thanks.'

When I hit the little ycn button on my dash, i'm immediately greeted with a list of interesting articles, flanked by comments that are worth reading. That's the most important part of the user experience for us, so here we stay.

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Post by dcurtis »

DaniFong wrote: post #92
dcurtis wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.

There seems to be some disagreement over what we mean by 'user interface' and 'user experience'. Those who downmodded you probably thought 'I like using YC news just fine thanks.' When I hit the little ycn button on my dash, i'm immediately greeted with a list of interesting articles, flanked by comments that are worth reading. That's the most important part of the user experience for us, so here we stay.

Ah. The content here is great. I'm not denying that YC is awesome.

It just has a sub-par interface. Compared to other sites, it has a terrible UI. It's not very user friendly, and it could be much more so.

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Post by davidw »

bluelu wrote: post #70
davidw wrote: post #66

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And I'm in Innsbruck. I'll remember to look you up if I'm in Munich again - feel free to come down here to visit some time for day of hiking or skiing or something. bluelu - where in .ch? I am in Zurich sort of regularly on business these days.

I live in Zurich. Maybe we can meet for a dring sometime soon. I will contact both of you.

I guess so, because you don't have any information at all in your profile.

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Post by imsteve »

sharpshoot wrote: post #85
imsteve wrote: post #73

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Just what I was about to say.

This was posted at the start of the weekend. Some people are already getting together. Just imagine what would happen if you left this for next weekend. And then felt a bit lazy, and put it off for another few days. Then didn't bother meeting up at all. Chatted over IM, got offended by something someone said because they were nervous and then never met at all. Momentum breeds momentum. People have a huge inertia to c…

More tough for some of us who are broke and have no car to do this all within one day.
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