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Some criticism: You should have a language tag for your channels or feeds and make sure you only put english ones on the front page. Right now 2 of them are no
by Maro 16y ago
Some criticism:
You should have a language tag for your channels or feeds and make sure you only put english ones on the front page. Right now 2 of them are non-english.
You should put up a demo video or slides or something. Your front page is not compelling enough right now for me to register.
The news items in your channels don't have preview pics. With the space-liberal layout of your site, this is very lacking, it was my first thought as I scrolled down. OR use compressed headlines, and use favicons. But put up some pics, it looks very boring this way with text only.
As one of the commenters here pointed out, the default channels are so general as to be useless. You'll need to think of some interesting subjects. Right now you probably should concentrate on early adopters like us, so create some interesting channels like Python or Django or whatever is hip these days.
I'd consider rethinking the layout (I'm looking at /tech right now). It looks like a generic blog, but it should look like a CHANNEL, so make it look like one! Get rid of the noise on the right side (Sources, Subscribers), use the space for a layout that's not boring and makes me want to use the site.
I should be able to create a channel without signing in. It could be the hook for later signup.
Best of luck!
- martinkallstrom 16y agoHi, thanks for the excellent feedback. Pics and vids are next up, via oEmbed. I agree there is much to be done about the layout. The noisy items in the right hand column are going at the bottom of the channel. As for the selection of channels, we are seeing a lot of interesting channels set up by users, over 200 new channels only today! Again, thanks! We'll try out different ways to increase sign up rate. A video or the possibility to create channels without signing up are great suggestions.