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Nice idea, but to be brutally honest the design is web 2.0 on steriods. How about a small elegent image for your logo and then the form input elements and that

Nice idea, but to be brutally honest the design is web 2.0 on steriods. How about a small elegent image for your logo and then the form input elements and thats it.

thorax 19y ago
Will do-- light, quiet visual redesign is next. Especially if we get more feedback like that here. Thanks much.
ericb 19y ago
Agreed. There is something about the current design that reminds me of hypno-toad. Although, everyone loves hypno toad.
dmoney 19y ago
I agree. In addition to making my teeth hurt, the design wastes a lot of space. Also, it's annoying having to click each heading just to see "link to microsoft KB article" But it is a good idea. Maybe I'll give a real e-mail address next time.
- thorax 19y ago
  Yeah, we should include at least some text in the initial solution summaries. I'll see what we can do to get that resolved. We kinda wanted initially wanted the design to "stand out" and be memorable (i.e. we took a risk) since the most important thing by far, when people stumble upon bug.gd, is that they remember it when they next run into an error message. Burning our site into your retina was kinda part of that plan, but I think we're over that experiment and will likely move to something that's gentler and similar to my favorite minimalist sites (like YC/reddit/Google). Thanks very much for taking the time to provide feedback. If you don't want to provide an email, the FFE allows you to search without requiring that-- it's an important part of our "try not to scare people away with email requests" strategy and still keep the site working.
  - dmoney 19y ago
    I understand wanting to prevent freeloaders, but it seems to me that most users initially will be freeloaders. They'll want to see that they are getting consistently good info from your site before they start contributing (even so much as contributing their e-mail address or downloading the FFE. And by "most" I mean this is me and I'm assuming I'm relatively normal). Especially when you're competing against every other site full of error messages that shows up in their search results.

Nice idea, but to be brutally honest the design is web 2.0 on steriods. How about a small elegent image for your logo and then the form input elements and thats it.

thorax 19y ago

Will do-- light, quiet visual redesign is next. Especially if we get more feedback like that here. Thanks much.

ericb 19y ago

Agreed. There is something about the current design that reminds me of hypno-toad. Although, everyone loves hypno toad.

dmoney 19y ago

I agree. In addition to making my teeth hurt, the design wastes a lot of space. Also, it's annoying having to click each heading just to see "link to microsoft KB article" But it is a good idea. Maybe I'll give a real e-mail address next time.

thorax 19y ago
Yeah, we should include at least some text in the initial solution summaries. I'll see what we can do to get that resolved. We kinda wanted initially wanted the design to "stand out" and be memorable (i.e. we took a risk) since the most important thing by far, when people stumble upon bug.gd, is that they remember it when they next run into an error message. Burning our site into your retina was kinda part of that plan, but I think we're over that experiment and will likely move to something that's gentler and similar to my favorite minimalist sites (like YC/reddit/Google). Thanks very much for taking the time to provide feedback. If you don't want to provide an email, the FFE allows you to search without requiring that-- it's an important part of our "try not to scare people away with email requests" strategy and still keep the site working.
- dmoney 19y ago
  I understand wanting to prevent freeloaders, but it seems to me that most users initially will be freeloaders. They'll want to see that they are getting consistently good info from your site before they start contributing (even so much as contributing their e-mail address or downloading the FFE. And by "most" I mean this is me and I'm assuming I'm relatively normal). Especially when you're competing against every other site full of error messages that shows up in their search results.