4 ms·
Critical feedback up front: Before signing up, please note that the demo video (which looked pretty, and I should have paid more attention to) when played in C
by frugalfirbolg 14y ago
Critical feedback up front:
Before signing up, please note that the demo video (which looked pretty, and I should have paid more attention to) when played in Chrome never successfully exited for me, i.e. the sign up elements continued to be hidden (yea, made sure it wasn't full-screen). I tried zooming in and out, pausing and playing the video. I did not investigate the DOM. A refresh restored the initial state and after signing-up I haven't revisited to play with it more.
Signing up felt a little like "hunt for the link that leads to the behavior I want". After clicking "Sign up with Facebook" at the bottom left and then telling Facebook I didn't want to give your app all of the requested permissions it aborted, but when I initiated Sign Up from the Login link at the top right, chose to use Facebook, and denied the app requested permissions, it rolled along.
I went through several of the videos and didn't see any with comments yet. I noticed that you're not linking back to the comments on the original site, and can understand there being several reasons for that, but I do wonder if there will be any integration with Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for the comments that originate in mixy.tv? Do they get re-posted to those other services, with hashtags for Twitter, so that followers from those services are tempted to join mixy.tv and become part of the fun?
Besides crowd-sourced tagging and filtering, are there any plans to create recommendations?
Since I am not following anyone else that is using mixy.tv yet, is the "People I Follow" link supposed to show people I follow on other social networks, and will I also be able to follow people just through mixy.tv in case we're coming from different walled gardens?
One feature request would be to enable bookmarks within videos, with their own urls, so users can comment on specific points in the video, and link directly to the frame they're talking about.
Finally answering your questions:
Overall the site looks clean, the layout after signing in makes sense.
I'd like to thank your service for revealing this video to me:
http://mixy.tv/posts/ea5c3e/this-dude-loves-his-job-best-cotton-candy-maker-ever http://mixy.tv/posts/ea5c3e/this-dude-loves-his-job-best-cot...
However, I need some help seeing the added value in general over my current means of finding videos. It appears the primary means to find videos is either manually searching or from the people I already follow.
By the way, is the List functionality enabled? The dialog says I created one, but then I can't find the list I created.
- frugalfirbolg 14y agoSorry, quick p.s. after playing with it a little more. I found my new list under my user profile page. So, I need to create a new list with the link up top, then figure out that RePost at the bottom right really means Add To A List. Then, if I go to my own profile I can see my list, and can remove videos within it, but I haven't figured out how to remove the list itself yet. Now that I know all of this I can remember it, but I mostly figured it out by clicking random buttons. The user should be able to grok it from the labels and relative positions.
- mixydrew 14y agoReally appreciate all the comments here. We have been focusing on making the service more intuitive so a lot of your feedback reaffirms our need to to that. We are connected to open graph but have not fully built out the Twitter or Google+ share yet but that is a great idea. Thanks again for signing up and look out for some changes in the near future. Until then any additional comments are more than welcomed! -Andrew