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Hope it helps. I'm only writing this because I'd probably use the service if it gets more polish. Oh, and it would be nice if I could make my guides private, so that I could use the site not only for past journeys, but for planning as well.
sunrise: not reached :|
It's not _that_ bad at 12pt, but all that's wrong with the font really shows with smaller sizes. Stroke weights are inconsistent, eyes too small. The font was meant to be "clear, pragmatic and very readable". Right now, it's none of these.
Technical problems can be solved, and the font will look good to some. I don't like it, but that's just a matter of taste. Layman's opinion on aesthetics can only have statistical value (and it's questionable if professional's opinion should be valued more).
What really bothers me is pretentiousness of the first paragraph. Basically, "everything was meant to be great, so it is". That - along with a todo that says nothing about fixing flaws, but dreams of having cyrillic, greek, unicode - is the biggest problem of all.
Fixing that first would go a long way toward making this a newsworthy item and a font to keep an eye on.
I haven't been so excited about a piece of software for ages. Reading this and looking at demos gives me the same feeling of amazement I got reading paper magazines when I was younger. Exploring floppies included with books, hearing the modem connecting for the first time, short pause, stream of characters before the login prompt. Magical.
Thank you Jasper_ for doing this and emillion for the link.
Plug: Maybe you could try a tiny chrome plugin I wrote:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anyt...
It's a simple site blocker I made after doing the same /etc/hosts routine a couple of times.
I do understand the problem. The problem is real, and this seems like a great developer friendly way to solve it. In my mind, that could probably make it commercially viable by itself, but why don't go a step further? Solve it for non-developers as well:
I might have missed it (which could make it a UX flaw then), but there doesn't seem to be a way to upload tabular data in any form and use that on a template. Why not? You could make it work with csv, javascript supported grid, or maybe some easily parsable spreadsheet format.
Pricing is not my strong suit, so no real comment on that - only that adding an "upgrade account" button to accounts section would be nice.
Good luck!
As someone said, it gets better if you try having a normal conversation.
I'd like to see what would happen if the people who created this let a real 13 year old boy chat with people, but announcing it as the supercomputer version.
I use it as a packaged app, so launching it is the same as it is for native stuff.