Bearbook goes live as of midnight tonight.

Nov 24, 2010 11:41

I've been beta-testing a bearish version of Facebook, called Bearbook. It's got some potential, although it'll take a while to achieve critical mass ( Read more... )

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fj November 24 2010, 20:28:30 UTC
Their description raises a couple of red flags for me ("we built everything ourselves" is actually not a good thing to this former Software Engineer), but the worst is that it is simply primitive looking. Like 1999 visually primitive. Like they were too cheap to ask a Graphic Design student to try it as a portfolio freebee project. The logo design is fun but good god the site is just a visual mess.

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allanh November 24 2010, 21:30:52 UTC
You've just summarized all of my highly detailed feedback during the beta testing. And I gave a large amount of of GUI feedback, most of which was ignored.

Even more frighteningly, this IS an improvement from what was first presented.

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fj November 24 2010, 21:55:00 UTC
Well hey, if you really want detailed feedback about flows and which elements need to be on the same page, there's nobody better to ask than someone on the Aspie / Autie spectrum, so at least they asked one right person!

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allanh November 24 2010, 21:58:59 UTC
The original logo and background colors were so badly selected that everything was mostly unreadable.

In ANY browser.

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fj November 24 2010, 22:03:22 UTC
Ok, now I am scared.

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