We wanted to make sure it was fast and dead simple.<p>We think there are a lot of things that we can improve on but we would love some feedback from the Hacker News community (specifically on the UI and experience).<p>Thanks!
My review:<p>1) As you already know, landing on the page is very harsh. The very first thing I saw when I arrived at the page was a popup that asked me to sign in with Twitter or Facebook. I didn't really read the title or the text; I immediately pressed back. This is easily fixed by letting the user know what you are before signing in.<p>2) Switching between sites is really well done, I instantly understood how to do it.<p>3) I dislike the "I like this too" button. It's not clear with what it does; I clicked on it hoping for a "post to Facebook or Twitter" option but it went straight to my Twitter. I'd prefer having two separate buttons to know exactly what I'm doing.<p>Overall, neat idea -- but it feels like I'm being tricked into doing certain actions since I don't quite know what's going on at first.
Okay, I know a lot of other folks have already pointed out the fact that just throwing up a Facebook/Twitter login might be a bit harsh. I would listen to them. But in addition to that, I would question that rather liberal policy you have taken with what, exactly, you have access to in my Facebook/Twitter account.<p>I didn't actually try to sign in with Twitter, but I noticed at the bottom you post a disclaimer saying that if I sign in with Twitter, I will start following you. WHY? Is that necessary to the app running? If not, that seems like a pretty bad way to increase your follower count.<p>I did try to sign in with Facebook, but immediately canceled when I saw you wanted access not only to my News Feed and Friends (which I fully expected), but also to send me EMAIL, access my Facebook account WHEN I'M NOT USING YOUR SITE (offline access), and POST TO MY WALL. At least the last of those, posting to my wall, I can get behind should I choose to do an action on your site that warrants it (e.g. I like something on your site and want to share it with my friends), but you should be approaching this from a standpoint of asking me for the only the permissions you need to get me started, then following up with further requests for specific permissions on an as-needed basis.<p>Especially since your entire site revolves around people logging in with their other social networking accounts, your site should respect those accounts. Not ask for permissions right off the bat that are going to scare away potential users who have no idea what you're going to use the permissions FOR. If I like an item and I get a request to allow your application permission to post to my Wall, that makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is that I have to give you permission to send me email through Facebook just to access your site at all.<p>My 2 cents, but hey, you already lost at least one potential user. Get that fixed and I think you increase the folks who actually proceed through the front gate by several fold.
Great app! I was clicking much too fast on the shuffle button and it took a while for the next site to come up. This made me click on the shuffle button again, leading to more slowness. Perhaps adding some kind of progress indicator to let the user know the next site is loading would be useful.<p>The design is intuitive too.
My 2 pennies worth: I'd take away the modal window from the start, signing in with fb or twitter accounts is a first class task and should be treated as such, graphically, editorially whatever. As it stands with the darkened "I like too" etc. buttons it feels like I missed a step, or some piece of the story.<p>I'd also suggest you stick to one shade of blue if possible, make your border radius the same or in harmony and make the generic icon look less like a squashed fb icon, i.e. make it unique or charming, identifiable to your project.<p>Animating the movement of the modal box was probably wasted on most :)<p>Can't say much about anything else as I don't have twitter and I don't use FB to log in to other apps.
The button text "Sweet I Got It" didn't make any sense to me at first.<p>I got what exactly?<p>I certainly didn't read any of the text above it, even though I eventually clicked the button to make it go away.
Why do apps insist on asking for every possible permission they might ever need? Can't you ask after I do something that requires advanced permissions?<p>This is the first thing I see: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/wfWCR.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/wfWCR.png</a> I don't even know anything about the app, let alone whether I should trust you.
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It needs an option to go back to the previous in case I overenthusiastically clicked next. Also, nexts should be deterministic so I can go forward and back in the stream at will.