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Show HN: My new documentaries website - doc.umentari.es

6 points by kentwistle 14y ago

kentwistle 14y ago
Long time lurker first time poster. I created this website in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 and am hosting it on a VPS with Linode. It uses Bootstrap but im guessing that is obvious to anyone on HN. Im also using Google Cloud Storage for my assets. Any feedback welcome!
sebg 14y ago
Love it - I watch a ton of docs on netflix and this was really cool to click around. Thanks for showing it! Some feedback: 1. I searched for food and it only returned one result. This made me curious whether your search was full text of description or other things? I like the auto-complete feature on the search, though it seems to be on titles and not on movie tags? 2. Under "economics" there are two RBS videos. This made me wonder how videos/docs are selected. Perhaps putting a how docs are selected link would be good. 3. I clicked on "Submit" and it tells me that I should log in. Which means that I then have to make the extra step to go and click on the log in button. Perhaps you take me to the log in screen immediately if I'm not logged in with the same type of flash message? That way it saves me one click and it's functionality that I would expect. 4. As you have ads on your site on the right hand side, what if you included them as tiles in the doc tiling? That way i'm more likely to look at them and it will let the very right hand column move up so you can put more information there. 5. Below each doc description, perhaps you can put how many times the page has been clicked into? It would definitely help me take a look at some that might not be my immediate taste if I see that it's the one page that has been visited the most. 6. When you have a flash message, if you could include a closing x so that I can close it that would be really helpful. (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#alerts http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#alerts) 7. I'm torn on the homepage link at the top of the nav bar. It has the same functionality of the "logo" and it doesn't really add to the website. On the other hand if it's a very non-tech friendly audience you're going after then it could make sense to have that link. I think you should remove it because people can navigate facebook and/or twitter without having to click on a "home page" link. 8. Spacing in the tile above the picture of the movie would be good. For the ones that have the full picture, the border of the tile and the border of the picture are a bit close and they look a bit crammed. 9. In the actual pages to the videos, I might switch the description with the advert. I'm still going to be compelled to look at the comments, so I'll definitely glance over the ad and it helps me see the bigger description on the video. 10. http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising 1. I like the "watch" url! 11. http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising 2. Check out your html code. Both the H1 tag "Liquid Rising" and H3 tag "User Submitted Comments" show up as exactly the same size on chrome. I would have expected these two things to be different sizes which is why I looked at your source. 12. Careful with your twitter login / sign up. Here is what your app wants to do with my twitter account: Read Tweets from your stream. // See who you follow, and follow new people. // Update your profile. // Post Tweets for you. // ..... Other than read tweets from my stream and potentially post tweets about what movies I've watched, I would definitely not feel comfortable with the rest of the things you are requesting. Great work! Really help and bookmarked for the next time I want to watch a movie.
- kentwistle 14y ago
  1) Currently auto suggest is only mapping titles that LIKE match. Search listing will now return results for the title as well as description. The auto suggest still needs some love and I will need to use something a bit more power / fast than SQL LIKE in the future. 2) The docs have all been selected by me. I haven't thought up a formal selection process but will try to write up some criteria. Basically any / all documentaries with English Audio or English Subtitles are welcome. 3) Not yet made a formal login page but will ASAP. 4) Im still thinking about ad placement but listing them within the content had crossed my mind as well so i might do this in the future. 6) Great idea I've added this 7) Im working on a more official logo with colleague. I've removed doc.umentari.es in the meantime from the navbar. 9) Agree - Done 11) Ive resized these now and cleaned up some more of the CSS 12) Seriously thanks for the heads up, I've edited this now. It was just a stupid oversight on dev.twitter.com Thanks for the kind words and the extensive feedback. It really helped! I still need to clean up the listing style CSS and might purchase a Netflix account for some inspiration because im sure they're doing a better job of listing content than me. Thanks again buddy :)
- kentwistle 14y ago
  I just added suggestion 5 as well.
  - sebg 14y ago
    Fantastic work and really quick turnaround. I'm really impressed! I've watched a few already and have some on my bookmark list so you've definitely convinced me. Looking forward to seeing how this develops. :)

6 points by kentwistle 14y ago

Long time lurker first time poster. I created this website in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 and am hosting it on a VPS with Linode. It uses Bootstrap but im guessing that is obvious to anyone on HN. Im also using Google Cloud Storage for my assets. Any feedback welcome!

sebg 14y ago

Love it - I watch a ton of docs on netflix and this was really cool to click around. Thanks for showing it! Some feedback: 1. I searched for food and it only returned one result. This made me curious whether your search was full text of description or other things? I like the auto-complete feature on the search, though it seems to be on titles and not on movie tags? 2. Under "economics" there are two RBS videos. This made me wonder how videos/docs are selected. Perhaps putting a how docs are selected link would be good. 3. I clicked on "Submit" and it tells me that I should log in. Which means that I then have to make the extra step to go and click on the log in button. Perhaps you take me to the log in screen immediately if I'm not logged in with the same type of flash message? That way it saves me one click and it's functionality that I would expect. 4. As you have ads on your site on the right hand side, what if you included them as tiles in the doc tiling? That way i'm more likely to look at them and it will let the very right hand column move up so you can put more information there. 5. Below each doc description, perhaps you can put how many times the page has been clicked into? It would definitely help me take a look at some that might not be my immediate taste if I see that it's the one page that has been visited the most. 6. When you have a flash message, if you could include a closing x so that I can close it that would be really helpful. (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#alerts http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#alerts) 7. I'm torn on the homepage link at the top of the nav bar. It has the same functionality of the "logo" and it doesn't really add to the website. On the other hand if it's a very non-tech friendly audience you're going after then it could make sense to have that link. I think you should remove it because people can navigate facebook and/or twitter without having to click on a "home page" link. 8. Spacing in the tile above the picture of the movie would be good. For the ones that have the full picture, the border of the tile and the border of the picture are a bit close and they look a bit crammed. 9. In the actual pages to the videos, I might switch the description with the advert. I'm still going to be compelled to look at the comments, so I'll definitely glance over the ad and it helps me see the bigger description on the video. 10. http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising 1. I like the "watch" url! 11. http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising http://doc.umentari.es/watch/liquid-rising 2. Check out your html code. Both the H1 tag "Liquid Rising" and H3 tag "User Submitted Comments" show up as exactly the same size on chrome. I would have expected these two things to be different sizes which is why I looked at your source. 12. Careful with your twitter login / sign up. Here is what your app wants to do with my twitter account: Read Tweets from your stream. // See who you follow, and follow new people. // Update your profile. // Post Tweets for you. // ..... Other than read tweets from my stream and potentially post tweets about what movies I've watched, I would definitely not feel comfortable with the rest of the things you are requesting. Great work! Really help and bookmarked for the next time I want to watch a movie.

kentwistle 14y ago
1) Currently auto suggest is only mapping titles that LIKE match. Search listing will now return results for the title as well as description. The auto suggest still needs some love and I will need to use something a bit more power / fast than SQL LIKE in the future. 2) The docs have all been selected by me. I haven't thought up a formal selection process but will try to write up some criteria. Basically any / all documentaries with English Audio or English Subtitles are welcome. 3) Not yet made a formal login page but will ASAP. 4) Im still thinking about ad placement but listing them within the content had crossed my mind as well so i might do this in the future. 6) Great idea I've added this 7) Im working on a more official logo with colleague. I've removed doc.umentari.es in the meantime from the navbar. 9) Agree - Done 11) Ive resized these now and cleaned up some more of the CSS 12) Seriously thanks for the heads up, I've edited this now. It was just a stupid oversight on dev.twitter.com Thanks for the kind words and the extensive feedback. It really helped! I still need to clean up the listing style CSS and might purchase a Netflix account for some inspiration because im sure they're doing a better job of listing content than me. Thanks again buddy :)
kentwistle 14y ago
I just added suggestion 5 as well.
- sebg 14y ago
  Fantastic work and really quick turnaround. I'm really impressed! I've watched a few already and have some on my bookmark list so you've definitely convinced me. Looking forward to seeing how this develops. :)