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Gravity Launches
- j2d2 17y agoI'm only a single data point, but you've lost me because I have no idea what gravity is upon first glance at the site and I don't want to watch a stupid animation of stick figures talking gibberish. Make it really obvious what your site does or keep making inconsequential first impressions.
- Lewisham 17y agoMake that two data points :) The site is unwelcoming, and doesn't tell me why I am there. The About page is a lot better, but doesn't tell me why I want to use Gravity and not go to pre-existing communities. If I want to talk to people about video games, for example, I could visit NeoGAF or the Penny Arcade forums and talk to them. If I want to talk about tech, I come to HN :) Why do I want to go to Gravity? Why do I want to go to it over Quora? (which, BTW, doesn't answer the pre-existing communities question either) The explore page reveals the functionality, but is overwhelming.
- johnfn 17y agoI didn't even get that far. I don't like watching videos on the Internet, mainly because I usually have other music playing, and they don't play so nice with linux. I don't want to have to stop everything I'm doing just to see what some - probably irrelevant - website is doing.
- kilian 17y agoGet earcandy. It automatically fades music players once a flash video or a video player starts playing: https://launchpad.net/earcandy https://launchpad.net/earcandy Edit: regarding Gravity: I agree. While I do enjoy video's, because often they get the message across incredibly fast. This video doesn't. It's cute, but once I click explore and see a forum, it's a letdown.
- johnfn 17y agoThe thing is, I don't want to have to stop my music just because someone wants me to watch their video. I like my music! What's the big problem with text these days?
- duncanj 17y agoHear hear
- almost 17y agoAnother one here! Not even a quick slogan to give some idea why I might want any type of gravity apart from the type that keeps me stuck on the world's surface. Also, I don't have sound so even if I did give enough of a crap about a site I've never heard of that does some undefined thing to watch a video I still wouldn't have been able to find out.
- ihatemummies 17y agoAfter looking at a few of the discussions, I can non-authoritatively say this looks like a glorified version of yahoo answers.
- kilps 17y agoAs others have said, the video tells me nothing so I look at the about page - the description sounds great but provides no incentive to sign-up. You need to get me interested in a topic straight off the home page, without having to register.
- whatusername 17y agoit's a ..... drumroll ..... web forum. With shiny web2.0 gradients.
- decadentcactus 17y agoClose, but I'd agree with ihatemummies in that it's closer to Yahoo Answers (at first glance at least). It seems more like a collection of forums (although I'm stretching that description as well). But with a new scrollbar.
- arethuza 17y agoOK I really tried to like this. However, most of the content seems to be at this level: "Favorite historical person of importance?" "Madonna. She was so extreme in her youth, that she made it safe for everyone else to be edgy." I wonder how much that domain cost?
- Tawheed 17y agoWHY did this get so many upvotes?!
- elblanco 17y agoLooks like public Waves work just as well?
- Tichy 17y agoApart from hating the video, I also didn't sync my Twitter "friends" because gravity asked for write access. Reading should be enough to find my friends.
- jamesbressi 17y agoCongratulations! I'm confused.