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First of all, great job! I love the simple design and layout! I'm a bit tired which might have affected things, but I a bit confused on the initial upload page

First of all, great job! I love the simple design and layout! I'm a bit tired which might have affected things, but I a bit confused on the initial upload page - I kinda expected the upload to start automatically, and then when I clicked on the video format some kind of magic would kick in. Personally, I would experiment with the page layout a bit; I'm not sure how well it'd work but maybe something like the user clicks browser, selects the file and that uploads automagically, and when that's complete the buttons for the video format appear, and finally there's a big "ENCODE"-type button at the bottom which kicks off the whole process. But that's me and a tired, slightly confused mind ;) Oh, a couple of minor points: I'm using Chrome 8 and the copy link to clipboard button didn't work. Also, the download link for the video took me straight to the video playing in my browser - if you want to change that you can send a (damn, getting old, memory failing...) header that'll bring up a file save box :)

senko 16y ago
Thanks! I want to make the service as dead-easy and obvious as possible - it should work for you if you've just been woken up after 2 hours of sleep with a huge hangover and you're totally annoyed that you have to mess around with converting and you just want to get it over and go back to sleep. So your tired&confusing experience is valuable for me :) I've had the option for automatically uploading the file, but decided against it thinking the files will be quite big and people might not appreciate the upload start automatically (in a different context, I'm really annoyed when web/flash video starts playing automatically, even if I opened the page with the intention of watching it). But since they already selected the file, it might make sense to start the upload "in background" while they can review and select what they want to convert to. About the video page comments: both good points, will fix, thanks :)

senko 16y ago

Thanks! I want to make the service as dead-easy and obvious as possible - it should work for you if you've just been woken up after 2 hours of sleep with a huge hangover and you're totally annoyed that you have to mess around with converting and you just want to get it over and go back to sleep. So your tired&confusing experience is valuable for me :) I've had the option for automatically uploading the file, but decided against it thinking the files will be quite big and people might not appreciate the upload start automatically (in a different context, I'm really annoyed when web/flash video starts playing automatically, even if I opened the page with the intention of watching it). But since they already selected the file, it might make sense to start the upload "in background" while they can review and select what they want to convert to. About the video page comments: both good points, will fix, thanks :)