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something about the UI of this page makes me instantly close it assuming I've ended up at some link farm.
by simooooo 10y ago
something about the UI of this page makes me instantly close it assuming I've ended up at some link farm.
- petercooper 10y agoOur archive pages are, yeah, not great :) Being redesigned for the new year. We are "email first" and most of the page is the raw HTML straight from the email. However, we hand curate for many hours every week and have been doing so for six years now, so you can trust this isn't just some random bundle of links (essentially, they're the ones most clicked in issues this year).
- garysieling 10y agoThe emails are fantastic, I recommend them to people all the time
- ZeroClickOk 10y agoHey, Peter, great site! You've got a new subscriber! Just 2 cents: On thank you page, the free reading material links are broken.
- agentgt 10y agoFor what it is worth I think the design is fine. In fact I actually prefer it :) . I think it is easy to read and loads fast.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoIt's ... a web page. It's perfectly ok for there to be links. Not everything needs a hero image and cards.
- tdumitrescu 10y agoAnd yet it is actually extremely content-rich, with a very good signal-to-noise ratio. For a free product whose only monetization scheme appears to be dev job ads and clearly-marked sponsored technical posts, it is really quite useful to have in my inbox every week. I also find myself browsing the archives not infrequently, and the generally no-frills UI makes it much easier to use for that purpose than most fancy custom content UIs. HTTP+HTML are already _quite good_ for browsing hyperlinked textual content.
- petercooper 10y agoThank you, that's very kind. If you have suggestions, please do just reply to an issue. We're improving the sites substantially for next year, but don't worry, no JS frameworks will get involved, all plain and fast HTML (just a better layout).
- mercer 10y agoYour emails are among the few that I consistently open. Thanks for doing what you do!
- reitoei 10y agoAlways look forward to this and Ruby Weekly. Thanks Peter!
- lolptdr 10y agoYour newsletter is one of the best out there, keep up the good work. I like the minimalism and the one-liner summaries are exact and succinct.
- simooooo 10y agoI should say I am also a subscriber, I'm not trying to shit on the contents. Literally the combo of underlined main link then the paragraph underneath and the author in lighter grey looks just like a Google ad/dodgy search engine.
- hawkweed 10y agoI'm huge fan of their newsletters. Awesome content. I don't see anything wrong with their UI. It really helps people focus on the content.