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Frontpile – A new social network forum

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Y'know... look, I get the idea and all, but if you wanna take a crack at a new social network, you should understand off the bat that the bar for UI is set very high, and a Bootstrap-lookin' crazy font sized UI just makes me wanna close the tab without digging further.

This is before I'd even comment about how it seems like it's just an attempt at a grab-bag of social network functionality.

The main reason I chose this UI approach because of time (I'm a student with so many exams), so the time for making the basics would take longer. But I do have plans of making the UI better and unique in the nearby future.

I will let these screenshots speak for themselves:

https://image.ibb.co/fAp2QS/Screenshot_20180326_004056.jpg https://image.ibb.co/h7aWKn/Screenshot_20180326_003737.jpg

> Register with us!

> Be part of Frontpile

But why? I can't see anything on the page except a sign up form for something I don't know anything about! In this time especially of weariness around social media, you should explain to the user what the site is.

This might be because the site's layout is somewhat broken. Things are all squished into small columns.

Chrome, Android 8.

The idea of Frontpile is to avoid people having an issue adding content to specific place or topic. This platform solves this issues by submitting several kinds of content (e.g news, questions, vibe content etc) in one place. Furthermore, users can add more topics (called as tags) if a topic don't exist (a simple form), there is no restrictions. It also consists a poll system if people like voting content.

The whole point of this service is collaborating all content in one place and avoiding people. I want to avoid people doing to many clicks for submitting content. You can see many additional feature involved this software. It's just not another website. I describe it as a combination of social media and forum. I have further feature to integrate in the future (big list on my desk).

Thank you for your feedback and will repair them ASAP. Perhaps I will add something similar on the website. Thank you!

Coming off the Facebook scandal, I think most people want transparency when it comes to social media. 'admin' running the site doesn't scream transparency.

Not to mention the odd text formatting, site design (Tempus Dominus, nothing original) and the lack of activity (you seem to have replied to your own post on there). If you put a bit more effort in rather than jumping the gun hoping to capture attention, you could get somewhere.

But 'admin' with no profile picture or any profile data isn't a good sign, how do you expect me to sign up, share my personal data and add a photo of myself when the owner of the site doesn't even do that?

Of you need help with your UI (and you do...) check out: http://fairpixels.pro

It’s not about making just look nicer. But the product needs to be at the very least understandable. Simplicity is hard, but core to succeed.

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The front page with the leaderboard and scores really puts me off. I don't mind scores as a form of soft moderation (HN). But I don't enjoy it as a key part of the incentive structure of a community.

I actually had doubts of this table but thank you for your opinion. Perhaps I might remove it if more people agree.

Agreed. People log on to social media communities to get away from the hierarchical structure of life (to a degree). I don't feel encourages to contribute more if my name is in shining lights on the homepage.

Thank you for the feedback and I will improve the service using this feedback.

I've never experienced something this before, so I'm glad I've done this. I learnt a lot from this occasion.

IDK about this service, but I can see a service like WeMe gaining traction after the whole Facebook fiasco considering they do end-to-end encryption.

I just started this platform off and like to get an audience for it and get feedback. I do have hopes of adding more features to it (I got a huge list of new features to add in the nearby future).

I never heard of WeMe but I'll have a look.

Sorry for my french but it looks like arse on firefox mobile, being spammed me with a register box covering the screen was the cherry on top.

I'll pass

Yes, I see there is an issue with small devices and will repair them ASAP.

It’s unusable on mobile and the layout is broken.

I'm not seeing anything right away that distinguishes it from Reddit or any other link-sharing site.

What's the value here over other sites?

I sort of explained this in another post but it does consists more features than Reddit (or similar). It consists a poll system, people can add more topic (if not existed), people can like topics (tags) and users. Users can view their liked users on their page view.

There are many more feature added into that I haven't mentioned. I also got more features waiting to be integrating in the nearby future.

Perhaps, I might focus more detailing information on it, so people can have a better idea of what's going on...

Thank you for your response.

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