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by bdmac97 17y ago
People still read newspapers?
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by bdmac97 17y ago
My appologies for tricking you into clicking it again. I see many requests for feedback that appear to be early in a site's lifecycle. Might it not make more sense for HN to just allow you to repost a URL after a certain amount of time has
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by bdmac97 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I have not finished fully integrating Facebook. I'm using RPXNow and I think I can get to your profile pic through that somehow but just haven't had a chance yet. It's certainly on my list of things to improve. A
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by bdmac97 17y ago
I agree and certainly see how you might think that. I have mostly been a reader up to this point (as I am on most blogs/forums I read). I have now posted several (4 maybe? not sure how to see) requests for feedback. The first time was ama
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by bdmac97 17y ago
In the interest of full disclosure the site that is linked is http://www.cafecourses.com . I have asked for feedback previously. I would have included the URL in a comment but HN does not even let the original poster add a comment to thei
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by bdmac97 17y ago
You are right I would love to post the real URL but HN seems to auto-reject them even if the posts are weeks apart. I don't think it's too outlandish to ask for a second round of feedback as long as you're not abusing/overdoing it. I have
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by bdmac97 17y ago
No, what I REALLY want are suggestions on improvements on either: a) the site/design/functionality b) the idea itself The site is completely free and the few Adsense ads are not even breaking even yet so it's definitely not about the money.
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That's what I'm trying to do (get more feedback). I got such amazing feedback here the first time that I'm just trying to get more of it. I have made all the improvements from the first round of feedback already as well as some changes th
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Ask HN: Need feedback on startup social learning site(tinyurl.com)
8 points by bdmac97 17y ago|16 comments
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by bdmac97 17y ago
Thanks for the clickable link. I plan on supporting a variety of OpenIDs via RPXNow in a future release. Thanks for the suggestion kailoa.
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Ask HN: Please (re)review my new social learning site
2 points by bdmac97 17y ago|5 comments
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Just wanted to say thank you all again for the valuable feedback. I have taken many of the suggestions from here and updated the site's landing page to be less wordy and more to the point. Also, I have streamlined the signup process so that
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Course Catalog link at the top. It's also the home page when you are logged in.
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This is not implemented yet but there is already a story for allowing possible course author collaborations.
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by bdmac97 17y ago
Thanks for the comments. 1. You can already see the content without signing up (at least the course overview pages). It is probably not obvious but the Course Catalog link at the top is accessible when you are not signed in. I didn't want
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by bdmac97 17y ago
That is great feedback. Thank you.
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Thank you all very much for your feedback! I truly appreciate all of it, both positive and negative.
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On the content issue, most of the existing courses out there were created during the private friends/family beta. I have not removed them under the assumption that they will simply fade to meaningless over time. I believe the "Conversatio
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by bdmac97 17y ago
I've addressed most of these concerns in the last deployment I just did. The lack of notification on signup was a caching problem. After signing up for (enrolling in) a course you should be taken to that course's landing page. A navigatio
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Thank you very much!
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by bdmac97 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The Hiro quote is just a placeholder until I get a good one to put there. I like Hiro. I'll fix the spelling though! Don't worry, if I get some funding for this the first thing I'll do is hire a graphic artist to
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by bdmac97 17y ago
Neither do I! Want to make some for me for free? :-)
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Think I fixed it. Sorry for that guys!
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I think the site is just under a bit heavier load than normal and until I get some more traffic it's running on a pretty low-powered server. Be patient please!
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Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site(cafecourses.com)
17 points by bdmac97 17y ago|31 comments