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"Slap a Story is a place for people like you and I; for people who like to read and write." Change to: "Slap a Story is a place for people like you and me: pe
by unalone 18y ago
"Slap a Story is a place for people like you and I; for people who like to read and write."
Change to:
"Slap a Story is a place for people like you and me: people who like to read and write."
I mean, writing sites need some self-respect.
I'm a bit anal about writing sites online: I think they're all barking up the wrong tree, yours included. I think that we have places for people who want to write silly texts: forums games are ideal. This site doesn't do anything to solve that. But I'll ignore that and focus on the actual site.
You've got a good text-to-image ratio. No pictures associated with stories. That's good, because I hate sites that think visuals have anything to do with writing.
I don't like how your numbers clip off on the side. I don't know why you need ranking to begin with.
I can't say much more: it's ripping features off of Digg, visual quirks off of several sites, and it has a tag cloud. Beyond the concept, the site has a pretty standard layout. I can't criticize that other than to say that it does nothing whatsoever for me, and it's entirely undistinguished.
Please, though: for the sake of pretending to respect the medium, style your stories up a bit. Make them look nice. Use different line spacing for paragraphs, use a font that actually looks nice. When your medium is text, not doing anything to style text is just silly.
Hope that helps. Feel free to respond if you think I'm being unfair.
- Ilia 18y agoFirstly, thank you for your honest feedback. Writing sites do need self respect, and this is the reason that we have developed this site. I am personally a developer and an avid reader. Although it may seems like a ripping of Digg - digg doesn't have a fiction category or any sub-categories that we have included. In terms of layout we didn't want to get too creative, but we do want to make it as simple on the eyes as possible - so our priority at the moment is to style the stories. Again thank you for your feedback.
- unalone 18y agoAbsolutely. Well, I'm working on a site for writers at the moment, and it focuses on a completely radical angle. When it's done I'll tell you, and I'm hoping you tell me if it's got flaws as well. We writers ought to stick together. :-)
- Ilia 18y agodefinitely, let me know and I will put your link on my site.