'k. So what I learned is that: A) The tutorial works really well. As in, it's really slick. Mad props on that. B) The site design clearly shows an interest in clean, minimalist programming that rewards paying attention. C) The markup should be WYSIWYG - "bolded" should read "bolded", "italicized" should read "italicized" etc. D) Fuck yeah. Blank page. I've been asking for that on Reddit instead of /r/here's a bunch of shit you should read because that's what everybody else does. E) I really should stop ignoring minimum_wage. His "about me" image is fucking hilarious. F) The second-least heinous layout is "ugly." Fer real, guys - why do you hate contrast so much? All in all, I have no meaningless criticism. The fact that my "settings" page allows me to talk about myself but doesn't demand I do so seems pretty much perfect.
I'm very happy to hear D. There's been an ongoing debate on the Hubski team about it. Score 1 point for b_b and mk. I am definitely of the opinion that not all thresholds should be lowered, for entry or even enjoyment of the site. Re: F, Dark got a bit darker today.
I live in LA, holmes. We got cracks in the sidewalk bigger than 80mm longboard wheels. And that doesn't include the earthquake damage or tree root shit. I oughtta go snap a picture of what the sidewalks look like on the route they took the Endeavor on; half the reason they chopped down the trees is so that they could put in sidewalks with a less-than-2-foot height variation...
MI is a wonderfully ironic state: A place that only survives on car manufacturing, but that won't under any circumstances submit to a gas tax high enough to maintain places to drives our precious autos. We have one of the worst ratios of maintenance dollars:miles of road of any state; throw in the freeze/thaw thing on top of that and spring is a shitty time to be a tire, axle or tie rod 'round here.
I can tell, actually. Curious - when you're building these, what choices do you have as far as ornamentation? It looks like you have: - BG color - Font - Font color - You color - Following color - Followed color How hard would it be for me to have a color picker and a dropdown for font? 'cuz then I'd have "custom" and I might just like that better.
It's mostly the main font and the background, but also the color of some links, textfields, borders, and buttons. Currently each style has its own style sheet. However, it would be worthwhile to have a master stylesheet of the CSS that doesn't change, and individual stylesheets for the custom aspects. If we did that, it would be one big step in the direction of something you are talking about. insomniasexx is working on a CSS project, which will be done soon. After that, I think we should implement that kind of CSS organization. If we had a handful of customizable aspects, it wouldn't be too difficult to allow for individual customization which would be pretty lightweight.
Yeah after I finish this brilliance I think I'm going to redo it and clean it up quite a bit. Maybe even add some comments (SAY WHAAA?!) This will be especially helpful for setting master fonts, deciding which elements are for look and feel and which are necessary for layout, etc. I'm currently about to start building a new, fully responsive website for my company and so I am finally taking the time to implement perfect, documented, and concise CSS that someone will be able to understand in the future. I hope I can bring all the things I learn during this project to help Hubski's css. The coolest trick I just learned about is rems. Basically you set html to a font size of 62.5%. Then you define each element as 14px (for ie) and then 1.4rem after it for modern browsers. When you want to up the fonts a bit for mobile, all you have to do is change the single HTML % and the entire font base will increase or decrease! Nifty huh?!
Well, technically the browser is the one doing the rendering so it'll be about the same. :P
Alright. I did it. Proof. How to: 1. Install stylebot extension 2. Click the extension icon and then click "styles" on the left hand side. 3. Click "add new style" 4. Type "hubski.com" in the top box (no quotes) 5. Type in the next box.
7. Refresh Hubski.
6. Click save. body {
font-family: "Papyrus";
}
Meaningless criticism - What did this person even mean? Like there isn't an easy way to access your profile once it is created? Even on Facebook you access your profile by clicking on your username....it doesn't appear that there is an easy way to access it once created
C) -Great suggestion
D) -That's nice to hear, I was very skeptical about the "blank page" approach. It only works if it's clear to people where to go to find content to fill that page and how to do that. I'm not convinced that this is clear.
F) More to come... I'm now following you Also_kleinbl00 and I expect great things.
The thing about the blank page is when you first visit Hubski, you get "global." It's pretty obvious there's all sorts of content. The thing about your userpage when you first log in, you get "nothing." It's pretty obvious that Hubski is not going to push anything at you. If you had half a clue, you watched the tutorial. If you didn't, it's at the bottom of the page. It doesn't take a lot to switch back to "global" and follow some shit. That's exactly as it oughtta be.
Cool, thanks for the feedback. It's good to know we're in a half way decent spot. Only took 3 years. Now for an API :)