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   by rwebb 19y ago

   that's an interesting idea. the one line + variying lengths + static lengths produces some issues for sure.
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   thanks very much for the feedback! it has been an interesting exercise for us: balancing what users what, what users actually DO on the site, and "good" design all at the same time. We've ended up going after the first two more aggressive
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   yeah we're not getting huge traffic, but i doubt anyone is not looking at us because we have some ads...and if we can get any but closer to breaking even, i'll take it!
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   ha! maybe we should tone it down then...
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   good idea...
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   yeah - there is tons of content every day that we want on the site, so we tried to get as much on as we could :) not great from a design perspective, but our users like it way more so far.
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   ha - yeah that's jacked up! we weren't going for the purple borders...
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   why?
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   by rwebb 19y ago

   ahh...that wasn't clear...very cool. maybe have some similar lightbox/iframe feature that brings up a cursor in search when you hit "g" with nothing selected?
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    we opted for a letter based ranking system (derived from moody's debt ranking system) because it relays relative value like a numeric ranking does, but avoids the issue of the user "let down" when they see everything has 0 - 20 votes. ther
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    thanks! you probably have a nice monitor? we tried making things more mellow, but a lot of our readers have crappy monitors so the dark stuff ends up being black on black...which is tough to see...
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    yeah the black background was a topic of debate. we went for black because all finance guys think bloomberg is the best thing since sliced bread.
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    really cool idea. i can only get the "L" key to work on your blogspot page, but i think there is lots of potential. the keyboard is essentially dead when you're looking at a website...never thought of that before!
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    We wanted it, so we built it...feedback?(analystsedge.com)

    17 points by rwebb 19y ago|64 comments
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    nice blog?
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    what about non-technical offsite CEOs that read lots of non-fiction!?!
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    by rwebb 19y ago

    Keith Schacht does chicagobeta meetups and gets very good attendance ( http://chicagobeta.com ). He also runs http://freshwaterventure.com .