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God forbid anyone ask you to figure something out without spelling out every little detail. Hang on, the site's creator isn't even asking you to do anything. He
by jamesaguilar 14y ago
God forbid anyone ask you to figure something out without spelling out every little detail. Hang on, the site's creator isn't even asking you to do anything. He or she just put something out there. Perhaps they are not even the person who posted it to hn. And even its freeness and obvious toy-ness isn't enough to prevent shrill, shallow complaints from annoying people on hn.
- etfb 14y ago"Every little detail"? Good grief! How about "any information at all"? Would you like to consider the lush, verdant pastures of the middle ground?
- jamesaguilar 14y agoThere's plenty of feedback within the app. You click on something, it says copied. The dropdown is obviously a set of color formats. It was not terribly hard to figure out.
- etfb 14y agoBut no explanation of what the colours are for, where they're from, what happens if you hit Reload. My assumption was that there was some clever algorithm to choose a "nice" set of colours from a wide palette, not that it was little more than a single colour swatch. As I said: too minimal. Now, if someone did have a web app that would choose nice colours that go well together according to clearly-defined, documented algorithm, I'd be very happy with that. As long as there was some text somewhere to explain what it did.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI don't get why he would document what happens when you hit reload. The page reloads. The colors are all the same and can't be adjusted, so obviously it can't be met to be a means of choosing colors. Where did you even get these expectations from?