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This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play aro
by msoad 6y ago
This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback:
1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested.
2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use
3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always set to the same value. Allow setting the colors individually too. But users often want harmony.
- abledon 6y agoyeah, after looking around some demo themes, was about to make a theme, got blocked by signup and closed tab
- bartread 6y agoMe too: I am unpleased by forced sign-up before I've had chance to try the thing I'm signing up for, so I didn't get beyond browsing demos. Some of them did look nice, but nah.
- chii 6y agothe smart way to do it is to allow you to make a theme, but to save it/share it, you need to sign up. If the theme is just a throwaway, people won't sign up, but if the theme is really good and the person wants to save it, it makes the signing up easier to swallow (since you get value from saving it). Otherwise, you end up with crappy noise in the sign up because people would just make a fake account to try it out.
- miketromba 6y agoThank you, these are great - I agree with all them. Going to add these to my list!
- nness 6y agoSame, closed tab the moment I saw a sign-in screen.
- misterbwong 6y agoAlso, do at least some light curation (votes/ranking/popularity). Hitting a page full of Untitled themes that all look similar isn't good for browsing.
- miketromba 6y agoFor sure, I would like to get a HN-type 'hot' algorithm with upvotes powering the list in the near future.
- jongalloway2 6y agoSave Theme should prompt to name if it's Untitled. It's not super obvious that every theme is created as Untitled and rename icon only shows when you hover over the title.
- harrierpigeon 6y agoI think the worst part for me was that when I went to sign in to GitHub the only thing it asked me for was my private email address. Dude, what?