some random bits that came into my head in the first 5 minutes of playing with the site:
* the atom feed on the front page needs to go into a <link> element in the html head -- it's not there when you are not logged in.
* grey links look odd. clickable things should look *strong*, not weak.
* support a more wiki-ish syntax (and a preview for posts -- what is this list going to look like?!)
* make it very very VERY easy to see where to cklick to post something, to comment, and to join. Perhaps allow people to do something without joining. Or let them register on the same for they are writing their post in.
* support OpenID
Some websites to steal ideas from: http://soup.io is very easy to use (but very ajaxy). http://identi.ca is a free/open twitter clone -- laconica is the software that runs it. XMPP-based federated microblogging... perhaps that would be a way to join this site with?
some random bits that came into my head in the first 5 minutes of playing with the site:
* the atom feed on the front page needs to go into a <link> element in the html head -- it's not there when you are not logged in.
* grey links look odd. clickable things should look *strong*, not weak.
* support a more wiki-ish syntax (and a preview for posts -- what is this list going to look like?!)
* make it very very VERY easy to see where to cklick to post something, to comment, and to join. Perhaps allow people to do something without joining. Or let them register on the same for they are writing their post in.
* support OpenID
Some websites to steal ideas from: http://soup.io is very easy to use (but very ajaxy). http://identi.ca is a free/open twitter clone -- laconica is the software that runs it. XMPP-based federated microblogging... perhaps that would be a way to join this site with?