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Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by Caligula on Friday October 24, 2008 @01:27AM (#342111)
The design is nice. One suggestion would be to better mimic the ui/colors/look and feel of WoW's ingame ui. Also add some sort of clan feature where someone can register a clan that they could also use as their clan/guild website so like a facebook group.

But disturbing too... A social network where instead of being about the users personal life, it is about a video game character they play. Luckily there are a boatload of people whose lives evolve around WoW so it could do very well.

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by aaron_vernon on Friday October 24, 2008 @03:43AM (#342172)
Clan/Guild features are definitely something that I am interested in looking into. For the initial release, I just wanted to keep it simple and let the users tell me the sorts of extensions they would be interested in :)
Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by sbarski on Friday October 24, 2008 @12:55AM (#342091)
It does indeed look very good. Nice design and a good concept to boot.

I hope it does well.

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by mattmaroon on Friday October 24, 2008 @03:54AM (#342176)
FWIW, I'm not a player, but your design looks great. I'm a little iffy about the menu links near the top. I feel like they shouldn't be separated, and could maybe use a background that's a little less translucent. Also the word "legend" is a bit tough to read and should have a period after it.

But the color-scheme and fonts are great. Overall it's pretty solid.

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by arien on Friday October 24, 2008 @04:55AM (#342198)
Very nice, it could be a great resource for roleplayers (but then I'd remove the 'uber l33t' line, heheh).

I'd like to mention that the navigation through the journal entries didn't feel too easy. I'd suggest adding a link at the bottom of each entry to show the previous one, for example :)

Good luck with your site!

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by aaron_vernon on Friday October 24, 2008 @05:10AM (#342210)
Thanks for the feedback :)

So you were using the real time slider above the journal, but you thought that a previous and next link placed somewhere would help the navigation?

If so that sounds like a good idea.

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by arien on Friday October 24, 2008 @05:50AM (#342236)
Oh! OK... I actually missed the slider... I was using the links on the right side (the archives). Now I notice the effect on the picture when I slide and it's super cool, but I think you could maybe make it stand out more somehow, I totally didn't see it.

Also, the slider is a bit far from the text, so I'm not sure I would have related it with the journal entries.

So, I guess I'm trying to say that you should show off the cool stuff a bit more so silly people like me find it easily :)

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by aaron_vernon on Friday October 24, 2008 @06:19AM (#342245)
Yeah I was worried that people may not see the slider. I am glad that you think it is super cool, so do I :)

I will look into ways to make it more noticeable.

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by henning on Thursday October 23, 2008 @11:48PM (#342024)
Looks cool. Too bad most WoW players are 13 year old jerks.
Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by johnyzee on Friday October 24, 2008 @08:23AM (#342282)
You'd be surprised.
Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by truebosko on Saturday October 25, 2008 @11:08AM (#343583)
I don't know what your site actually does without signing up or clicking around. The first page gives me a vague explanation and some weird browser-in screenshot.

I would recommend trying to make it easier to understand what you do in your opening page. I see after clicking through that it looks like a journal for your WoW character

Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by Raphael on Friday October 24, 2008 @07:12AM (#342259)
"Critique" ain't a verb.
Re:Ask HN: If you have ever played WoW please critique my ne... by anirbas on Friday October 24, 2008 @07:29AM (#342267)
It's not yet a fully accepted verb, but it's becoming one.