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Well, that is the worst designed page I have ever seen. Color and layout wise it's beautiful. Content wise, where on earth is the "contact us" link? "About" li

Well, that is the worst designed page I have ever seen. Color and layout wise it's beautiful. Content wise, where on earth is the "contact us" link? "About" link? copyright info? Sign up for beta? Etc... The logo is huge, but I don't care about the logo, I care about the product. And all the screenshots of the product are TINY. And I can't click on them. And why are they checker boarded all over the place, just have images on the left, text on the right. Checker boarding images is terrible practice. It looks like such a good product and I want to know more but they're hiding everything from me. And that just stresses me out to the point where I hope their product fails. Call me a dick but I never would have guessed visiting a web page would piss me off so much. Why? Because I feel like they're teasing me, showing me something good and keeping me from getting to it. The equivalent of waving food in front of my face when I'm hungry but never giving it to me. Design like that is just beyond unforgivable. That's the perfect example of what not to do when launching a web app. What am I suppose to do, dig around in the who-is info for their contact info?

ryanwaggoner 15y ago
You're definitely the right amount of upset about this. Maybe, just maybe, the lack of all the things you mentioned is an indication that this is not intended for you at this point? Are you trying to do an ironic troll thing on a thread about trolling? If so, you got me :)
- libraryatnight 15y ago
  I felt the same way about the site actually. It may be it's not intended for us at this point, but the person posted that site as if it would offer some clarification. He's not trolling -- at least, I don't think he is -- it's just not a helpful website. I realize the initial comment said 'coming soon,' but linking it seemed to imply that there would be something, some shred, of useful information that would make the site relevant to the discussion.
  - seltzered_ 15y ago
    I feel somewhat bad now about linking to it. The developer's blog (tynan.com) hasn't even linked to it yet, just mentioned the name of the site coming soon. I was bored one day and typed the supposed url in, and oh look a beta placeholder page.
seltzered_ 15y ago
Uhm, the site isn't officially done yet, and I have no relation to the actual developer of it. I just follow the developer's rss feed (tynan.com) and noticed him mention that he plans to release it in the coming months. I could point to other startups my friends are working on and they currently look horrible, but they're intended just for a few friends right now and they're thankful nobody's done a "show HN" for them yet. Sorry if this came off as a troll, just saw someone vent about a problem that other folks seem to be attempting to be working on. I have no idea whether sett is going to actually solve the problem or not.
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ryanwaggoner 15y ago

You're definitely the right amount of upset about this. Maybe, just maybe, the lack of all the things you mentioned is an indication that this is not intended for you at this point? Are you trying to do an ironic troll thing on a thread about trolling? If so, you got me :)

libraryatnight 15y ago
I felt the same way about the site actually. It may be it's not intended for us at this point, but the person posted that site as if it would offer some clarification. He's not trolling -- at least, I don't think he is -- it's just not a helpful website. I realize the initial comment said 'coming soon,' but linking it seemed to imply that there would be something, some shred, of useful information that would make the site relevant to the discussion.
- seltzered_ 15y ago
  I feel somewhat bad now about linking to it. The developer's blog (tynan.com) hasn't even linked to it yet, just mentioned the name of the site coming soon. I was bored one day and typed the supposed url in, and oh look a beta placeholder page.

seltzered_ 15y ago

Uhm, the site isn't officially done yet, and I have no relation to the actual developer of it. I just follow the developer's rss feed (tynan.com) and noticed him mention that he plans to release it in the coming months. I could point to other startups my friends are working on and they currently look horrible, but they're intended just for a few friends right now and they're thankful nobody's done a "show HN" for them yet. Sorry if this came off as a troll, just saw someone vent about a problem that other folks seem to be attempting to be working on. I have no idea whether sett is going to actually solve the problem or not.

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