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by StuieK 14y ago
> useless without showing the total number of votes. Hover and you can see the % and on the Viewpoints it shows the votes they received but obviously to be even remotely trusted we need total votes. Consider it on the to-do.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Hey guys, one of the Slant founders here. I'll be the first to admit that this topic isn't the greatest.. We are just getting started and have a few issues we are working on. Please judge us on some of our better topics such as: http://sla
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by StuieK 14y ago
Really good points and I do agree that we need some work on the presentation. Thanks for the feedback.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Well some topics are along the lines of "What are your favorite plugins" which make sense to vote multiple times. Do you think people would usually vote for multiple things in the emacs vs VIM style questions?
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by StuieK 14y ago
> I found the site slow to load (actually got the wait or cancel dialog). Sorry about that, we are under some heavy load and didn't have time to do even the most basic speed optimisations (gzip etc). Its very high priority. > The p
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by StuieK 14y ago
Hey mate, yep it's totally not optimal. I'm going to fix this the moment I can.
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by StuieK 14y ago
To be honest that topic is in need of a lot of improvement. We do "objective" viewpoints well when the topic has matured, for example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we... We are also building a comparison matri
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by StuieK 14y ago
You just pointed out a really important problem with the way voting is currently done (we are fixing this asap). Emacs was added after Sublime, so it had less time to get votes. We are going to be doing some clever ways to reset the graphs
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by StuieK 14y ago
Thank you!
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by StuieK 14y ago
You can vote without leaving comments, but you have to create an account to do it.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Awesome feedback. 1: That is a really cool idea and something I have been thinking about since day 1. I want to be able to show a graph that displays the relative change in opinion over time, annotated with the addition of new citations to
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by StuieK 14y ago
Thanks for the comment and the content you added Toby!
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by StuieK 14y ago
Totally agree and we have plans to fix both points :) Thanks for the feedback! Was there anything else you noticed that was confusing?
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by StuieK 14y ago
Hi Mate, > With Slant, the tracing of comments/submissions is as hard as it is on Wikipedia. We are building an "authority" SO style karma system, and unlike Wikipedia you can easily see who is a contributor to a post. This is something
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by StuieK 14y ago
Well you just made my day, thanks so much. On the objective comment, the format actually does work for objective questions just fine without us changing anything. We just excel at subjective questions so thats how we are positioning ourselv
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by StuieK 14y ago
Really sorry about that :( it's very much in an Alpha state. Will get this fixed ASAP.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Thanks!
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by StuieK 14y ago
Thanks! Agreed on the SO point, I actually just tried it out on the "Haskel" topic and maybe a couple others with it all fully cited but stopped as it didn't feel right...We have over 300 topics right now with only those few from SO. Workin
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by StuieK 14y ago
Hey mate! So the idea is to have the list of Pros/Cons! For example checkout this one: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we... It tells you what its good for, as well as the "cons" Edit: Also topics like: http://s
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by StuieK 14y ago
Haha steady now. He means peoples responses to their AMA.
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by StuieK 14y ago
He really is. Had the pleasure of running into him last week and he is one of the most genuinely nice people I have ever met.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I actually tried yesterday, may have been some bad luck with nobody really seeing the post :/ Would love to hear any other feedback you might have :) Edit: Please add all those questions! We built the entire site
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by StuieK 14y ago
Blatant self promotion -> Thats one of the reasons we built Slant. Summarize the discussion so you don't have to read it all. Example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-programming-language...
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by StuieK 14y ago
One really simple change could be altering the wording to be "What are the different..." when its very high level and "what is the best.." when they have scoped it enough. It's a small change that reflects your points. If its scoped enough
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by StuieK 14y ago
:) our front-end dev who learnt design while on the job just said "woot, thank you"
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by StuieK 14y ago
Does what I was saying make sense? I was also wondering how much beer would I have to bribe you with in order to be able get your thoughts on how we should approach those sorts of issues? Love to be able to bounce ideas of someone who under
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by StuieK 14y ago
We are slowly learning to be a lot more disciplined in how we handle changes, but obviously have a long way to go. Thanks for the tip, will do.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Refresh the page, just widened the content, better? > Also, the suggest edit VS comment thing is confusing. Hrmm, well one is for editing the content, and the other is just for discussing it. I see how the UI for it is confusing though,
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by StuieK 14y ago
Also: http://slant.co/topics/best-resources-for-startups-to-learn-... Thanks for writing all that, very helpful.
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by StuieK 14y ago
Any chance for some of your time to give me some concrete examples to fix?

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