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Duuble: microblogging diary
- eegilbert 15y agoA communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.
- liu3hao 15y agoHmm.. Swapping diaries, that sounds like an idea we could add in!
- ddw 15y agoA friend of mine found once such book from 1932. It's pretty amazing and she has fittingly been posting some of it on Tumblr: http://someoldbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/diary http://someoldbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/diary A lot of walking down the street!
- datawalke 15y agoFirst Impression: For some reason, unless I can see an example of exactly what this looks like / a demo I can't see myself signing up. Signing up was fairly quick. However making my first post was a little troublesome: Hitting the "enter" button when didn't seem to post anything. The overall feel here feels less like a diary and more like a self-contained twitter feed. I think it's the atmosphere of the application that is throwing me off the most. Congrats on shipping a product though! I'll continue to try it out.
- liu3hao 15y agoThanks for the feedback! We'll try to add a working demo, or at least some screenshots! For the UI, we'll tweak it a bit too!
- maxjaderberg 15y agoI think a demo is definitely needed on the homepage to convert signups. Design wise, just be careful with using such light grey text on white background, as you can barely read some things. For example, the "bars" layout is unreadable on my screen unless you hover over a post.
- mhd 15y agoAre metal umlauts the new left out vowels for Web 2.x? Will we see "flickr" renamed to "flïckër"?
- jorangreef 15y agoWell done on shipping. Here are some things that can be improved: 1. Increase the font-size from 13px to 16px and set line-height 24px to make the type friendly. 2. Increase the height of your input fields and buttons to 28px to make them easier to focus and click on. 3. For the diary image on your front page, show a diary that has something written in it. Even better, show a screenshot of a Duuble diary. 4. Combine "First name" and "Last name" fields into "Your Name" for better internationalization and less visual elements / tabbing. 5. Move the "Tweet" button away from your sign up form to top right of the page. Use the official Twitter button. People are used to it. 6. The "Read more about Duuble" button should be a link not a button.
- liu3hao 15y agoWoah, that's quite a list. Thanks though!
- iaskwhy 15y agoThe "tweet" button is completely out of place, I guess some people can fill all the inputs and click on it by mistake.
- mkopinsky 15y agoAgreed about the Tweet button. Also, consider renaming the location dropdown to "Timezone/Country", and either auto-populating it based on IP or using a "Please select item." Don't autopopulate with some obscure location where almost none of your users live.
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- jorangreef 15y agoIf all you need is timezone, you can remove the location dropdown, and use Javascript to set the local timezone into a hidden input: var utcOffset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / -60; // Hours.
- mhd 15y agoIs the lack of nicknames intentional? Sure, for a private diary I don't need to see "xxCuteHoneyPiexx" in the browser, but one might prefer to "blug" as that instead of "Deborah.Jingleheimer".
- liu3hao 15y agoYeah, we did not really include nicknames, just first and last name. You could change your first and last name under Settings to your preferred name. If enough users want an additional option of a nickname, we could add that in the future
- mhd 15y agoConsidering the current Google+ brouhaha and the target demographics, I'd recommend something like that. Also, having a bookmarklet for a pop up version of the "Just Post" page might be quite neat.
- liu3hao 15y agoYeah, we did not really include nicknames, just first and last name. You could change your first and last name under Settings to your preferred name. If enough users want an additional option of a nickname, we could add that in the future
- akarambir 15y agoaren't there any username? So that i can go to my blug by http://duuble.com/username http://duuble.com/username
- zoom 15y agoI like lots.
- sathishmanohar 15y agoSorry for being negative. I would say its bad design. Why does a daily dairy site has to be like twitter? Yours is a original concept. Pour some thoughts into it and come up with original design. :)
- shpoonj 15y agoScoured the front page. Still have no idea what this is.
- jh3 15y agoIs it not obvious that it is an online diary?
- crazydiamond 15y agoInteresting. I wanted to edit a post in order to add a tag. Unable to edit. Also, why not use the same tag format as twitter since people will be used to that. Is there any API so I can send feeds through command-line. I already have a bash script called "whatidid" which logs to a text file and mails the file to my gmail account. I could push it to duuble.