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This seems like a relevant venue to mention my startup http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&info http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&info which dampens

by ionwake 12y ago

This seems like a relevant venue to mention my startup http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&info http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&info which dampens HN flagging, re-ranks and merges the top submissions along with those from other tech sites. Thought it might be of interest to those fielding similar complaints. Please note: sageBump is not a replacement, it is a tool for HN

fuj 12y ago
Wow... everything is a startup nowadays
- ionwake 12y ago
  Sure seems that way
ColinWright 12y ago
Visited to check it out - can't get rid of the bloody great slab that overlays the actual content, clicked in lots of places, closed.
- ionwake 12y ago
  Thanks for checking it out - what browser were you using?
  - ColinWright 12y ago
    Firefox 11.0 on Ubuntu 12. I finally found that by maneouvering carefully I could find somewhere outside the huge slab and click there. Not easy on my setup. And did I mention that it was annoying? Personally, I also found the interface too sparse, and rather unclear as to what it was showing me and why. I was not engaged, and after thinking about why for a few minutes, I have no idea. I just don't feel any level of interest for it. My only reason might be that it's an aggregation of other sites, and I can't be bothered to learn more about how to turn off the source sites I know I don't care about. </braindump >
    - ionwake 12y ago
      Thank you for your feedback I will work on it!
TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
Thoughts: * Domains popping in when your mouse scrolls over something is annoying. Really annoying. My mouse is not my eyes - just because my eyes are on something does not mean my mouse is, and vice versa. And the popin ends up being movement, which is distracting. The same issue I have with the DDG redesign. * Said domains popping in do not have a fallback without JS. * Random icons (and in an icon font, none the less, which again, does not exactly fallback gracefully without JS). I much prefer "1 hour ago" than an icon of a clock. (And said icon of a clock doesn't even change given how old an article is! You have to mouse over it for that. And again, see above for things only showing on mouseover.) * No way (that I can see) to sort/filter. For example, only seeing articles that were heavily penalized on HN. * Bug: if you mouseover the photo icon to open the image, and put your mouse over the image and out of that submission, the domain never goes away. * The feedback links... Don't actually allow you to submit feedback. And "I don't believe you" for negative feedback is condescending. * Popover on first visit is extremely annoying, to the point where I won't visit it again until it is removed. (My browser clears most things on exit, so I'm assuming that it will pop up every time I restart my browser)
- ionwake 12y ago
  Hi, thank you for your time and your excellent feedback. I agree with you on all points. I laughed when you said Ron Burgundy was condescending - I had not considered that. But again you are probably right. The pop-over you mentioned at the end only appears if its hard coded into the link. I did this to the link as I believe new users will rather have more rather than less information on their first visit. I will continue working on improving the site.
dfc 12y ago
Did you post the wrong link? You mentioned it is a tool for HN but I did not see one HN story. I did see a number of trivial links to images of reddit favorites like a duckling waking up from a nap and a cat with no feet going down the stairs.

by ionwake 12y ago

fuj 12y ago

Wow... everything is a startup nowadays

ionwake 12y ago
Sure seems that way

ColinWright 12y ago

Visited to check it out - can't get rid of the bloody great slab that overlays the actual content, clicked in lots of places, closed.

ionwake 12y ago
Thanks for checking it out - what browser were you using?
- ColinWright 12y ago
  Firefox 11.0 on Ubuntu 12. I finally found that by maneouvering carefully I could find somewhere outside the huge slab and click there. Not easy on my setup. And did I mention that it was annoying? Personally, I also found the interface too sparse, and rather unclear as to what it was showing me and why. I was not engaged, and after thinking about why for a few minutes, I have no idea. I just don't feel any level of interest for it. My only reason might be that it's an aggregation of other sites, and I can't be bothered to learn more about how to turn off the source sites I know I don't care about. </braindump >
  - ionwake 12y ago
    Thank you for your feedback I will work on it!

TheLoneWolfling 12y ago

Thoughts: * Domains popping in when your mouse scrolls over something is annoying. Really annoying. My mouse is not my eyes - just because my eyes are on something does not mean my mouse is, and vice versa. And the popin ends up being movement, which is distracting. The same issue I have with the DDG redesign. * Said domains popping in do not have a fallback without JS. * Random icons (and in an icon font, none the less, which again, does not exactly fallback gracefully without JS). I much prefer "1 hour ago" than an icon of a clock. (And said icon of a clock doesn't even change given how old an article is! You have to mouse over it for that. And again, see above for things only showing on mouseover.) * No way (that I can see) to sort/filter. For example, only seeing articles that were heavily penalized on HN. * Bug: if you mouseover the photo icon to open the image, and put your mouse over the image and out of that submission, the domain never goes away. * The feedback links... Don't actually allow you to submit feedback. And "I don't believe you" for negative feedback is condescending. * Popover on first visit is extremely annoying, to the point where I won't visit it again until it is removed. (My browser clears most things on exit, so I'm assuming that it will pop up every time I restart my browser)

ionwake 12y ago
Hi, thank you for your time and your excellent feedback. I agree with you on all points. I laughed when you said Ron Burgundy was condescending - I had not considered that. But again you are probably right. The pop-over you mentioned at the end only appears if its hard coded into the link. I did this to the link as I believe new users will rather have more rather than less information on their first visit. I will continue working on improving the site.

dfc 12y ago

Did you post the wrong link? You mentioned it is a tool for HN but I did not see one HN story. I did see a number of trivial links to images of reddit favorites like a duckling waking up from a nap and a cat with no feet going down the stairs.