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I don't mean to be hasty, but the background on that website almost gives me a seizure. I would seriously consider changing it. Am I the only one who had a har

I don't mean to be hasty, but the background on that website almost gives me a seizure. I would seriously consider changing it. Am I the only one who had a hard time following text on this site?

vaksel 17y ago
Everything will be fixed in the redesign. The goal of the original design was to just get something out there as quickly as possible and to start building up the community/content. The sooner you start, the sooner you finish. You know the whole release early mantra. This way there is no rush, and I can build something nice, since I now know that the site is something people want to use.
- mseebach 17y ago
  > Everything will be fixed in the redesign. Famous last words :) Nice write-up, although in my eyes it has crash-and-burn written all over it, esp. the eating part. Also, doesn't it get lonely?
  - vaksel 17y ago
    hehe, yeah. Well the site is mostly built for SEO. So the traffic will keep coming no matter how it looks. To tell the truth I've always ate like that, since high school really. So it's not really affecting me physically. Doesn't get lonely part, I still talk to people through IM, twitter etc., and get out on the weekends. + there is always HN. Basically I just lose my weekday nights(compared to a regular job)
    - wgj 17y ago
      Is this a Stack Exchange site, or just looks like one?
      - vaksel 17y ago
        Yeah SE...with about 4000 lines of css, javascript and jquery
        mattwdelong 17y ago
        4000 lines? I am curious as to what is different from the default SE install? What functionality did you add?
        vaksel 17y ago
        automatic video embedding, affiliate link insertion, ask question box on the homepage, modification of related posts search results, social media submits, a new option for logging in + text to guide, a few presentation tools, a few text adds/deletes A lot of it is in the css though, since I had to pretty much customize every single field.
        mattwdelong 17y ago
        It seems like it would almost be easier to clone the functionality of SE and make additions to it NOT using javascript. To me, it seems like that much JS would be a bitch to maintain, no? Sorry, I couldn't reply to the comment below. Guess PG doesn't want threads to continue off the page. ^^
        vaksel 17y ago
        I actually had the whole niche Q&A idea before(back when I heard about SO launching), and based on my calculations it'd take me 1-1.5 years to build something like SE on my own. Which just didn't make sense. Yes it's easy to clone SE, there are like a dozen other solutions. But the reason I like SE, is because it's a turn key solution. I don't have to worry about servers or security. These have always been my achilles heel, and this way someone else who actually knows what they are doing, can take care of that.
pkaler 17y ago
The font is too small, too.

I don't mean to be hasty, but the background on that website almost gives me a seizure. I would seriously consider changing it. Am I the only one who had a hard time following text on this site?

vaksel 17y ago

Everything will be fixed in the redesign. The goal of the original design was to just get something out there as quickly as possible and to start building up the community/content. The sooner you start, the sooner you finish. You know the whole release early mantra. This way there is no rush, and I can build something nice, since I now know that the site is something people want to use.

mseebach 17y ago
> Everything will be fixed in the redesign. Famous last words :) Nice write-up, although in my eyes it has crash-and-burn written all over it, esp. the eating part. Also, doesn't it get lonely?
- vaksel 17y ago
  hehe, yeah. Well the site is mostly built for SEO. So the traffic will keep coming no matter how it looks. To tell the truth I've always ate like that, since high school really. So it's not really affecting me physically. Doesn't get lonely part, I still talk to people through IM, twitter etc., and get out on the weekends. + there is always HN. Basically I just lose my weekday nights(compared to a regular job)
  - wgj 17y ago
    Is this a Stack Exchange site, or just looks like one?
    - vaksel 17y ago
      Yeah SE...with about 4000 lines of css, javascript and jquery
      - mattwdelong 17y ago
        4000 lines? I am curious as to what is different from the default SE install? What functionality did you add?
        vaksel 17y ago
        automatic video embedding, affiliate link insertion, ask question box on the homepage, modification of related posts search results, social media submits, a new option for logging in + text to guide, a few presentation tools, a few text adds/deletes A lot of it is in the css though, since I had to pretty much customize every single field.
        mattwdelong 17y ago
        It seems like it would almost be easier to clone the functionality of SE and make additions to it NOT using javascript. To me, it seems like that much JS would be a bitch to maintain, no? Sorry, I couldn't reply to the comment below. Guess PG doesn't want threads to continue off the page. ^^
        vaksel 17y ago
        I actually had the whole niche Q&A idea before(back when I heard about SO launching), and based on my calculations it'd take me 1-1.5 years to build something like SE on my own. Which just didn't make sense. Yes it's easy to clone SE, there are like a dozen other solutions. But the reason I like SE, is because it's a turn key solution. I don't have to worry about servers or security. These have always been my achilles heel, and this way someone else who actually knows what they are doing, can take care of that.

pkaler 17y ago

The font is too small, too.