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Show HN: UXHunt – Your Daily Dose of UX Intelligence (and Our Side Project)

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87 pointsjayantrao9436 comments

Congrats on the launch ( and HN's hug of death ;) ).

Some feedback:

- Body copy on the cards might not be easy to read for some folks - it has a really low contrast ratio... just checked... it fails AA.

- Using Industry Demi at that size doesn't help with legibility either.

Thanks for the feed back. - We have fixed the contract ratio and it seems to pass now. - Yes considering we are redirecting users to original owner of the articles, we thought of using this so it sticks to our original aesthetics but we are looking at some replacement fonts.

Thumbs up for the feedback :)

Hug of Death was very warm :P

As another data point, I dislike the font as well and consider it hard to read.

I would have expected to feel a little more comfortable on a website made by user experience experts. Instead, it feels like a dark room where you search a book with a flashlight (exciting, but not comfortable).

We never intended to come our was user experience experts - I have made a repo; rather a blog to add articles created by the actual 'experts' so enthusiast like ourselves can share and learn.

But we are just starting - every feedback will be taken into consideration to further improve the product. This is just the beginning.

Nice site! I'm thinking that maybe the stuff at the bottom could go at the top because it's hard to get to the bottom. I was confused as to what this was until I found (and was able to click in time- a little game) the 'about' tag.

Website header seems to be somewhat broken – https://vgy.me/sYvBta.png (Firefox 62 & Chrome 71)

Very nice! I am getting an IndieHackers vibe from this (which is a good thing). I definitely think there's a need for a curated list of UX reads, so thanks for putting this together.

I would advise against the dark background though, it makes things harder to read as your eyes aren't able to make out the grid of elements as clearly. Like the aforementioned IndieHackers, if you want to go dark, use a not-quite-black shade, like a dark purple or dark blue.

Agreed. Love the idea. For me I'd like to see better readability and information destiny. The headlines are more important than the pictures. Most images don't tell me much about what the item will be.

Neat site, though I think you might have just got a hn hug of death? On a MBP13, it has a janky horizontal scroll as the view is just a little too large.

First rule of good UX: Make it work.

First rule: Make sure servers are strong enough to handle traffic. this is not UX - its more of the tech :)

You can build slim frontends that barely put load on the server. Or you can build fullblown monsters that put "a bit more" load on the server (and the browser). So, it's not only not-UX.

Doesn't "UX" stand for "User Experience"?

UX is such a nebulous idea. Practitioners of UX spend half of their time wondering whether what they are doing is actually UX and the other half of their time accusing other practitioners of not doing UX.

It's a very jarring user experience when every link I click opens a new window and goes through 3 redirects before the article loads. The user should control where content loads, not the page. If I want it in a new window, I'll right click and choose "Open in new window".

Looks like its down, getting 503 and 508

Hmm, not sure if I'm missing something here, but it seems like something's a bit off with the menu on mobile with this site. When I tried to open it on a smartphone, all I got was a white block with a bit of text in, and on responsive view on a desktop it simply doesn't load at all.

Seems like that may be a bug you may want to look into there.

We have similar problems at Designed.org with spikes, luckily we've moved to React and distributed some things on AWS and we've been much better off. Keep up the good work, we need more design education resources out there.

Give me your email - let's see if we can work together!

White page on FF Android. View source says the page is empty.

Can I suggest that you add sub categories in the UI Kits section to know at a glance if a kit is for Sketch and/or AdobeXD?

Good feedback - we were actually thinking of adding tags for it which can be filtered. once we increase the assortments of the UI Kits - we will be sure to add this feature.

Update

Should be up in the next 30 minutes lads. Thanks for so many up votes. Highly appreciate it so far.

5 hours later still down, I guess I won’t underestimate HN hug of death anymore me too

It crashed although you used Cloudflare? I'm interested in a post-analysis.

Yeah. it was because we started with a basic go daddy server moving it to DO now. Jeez. noob mistake.

Did DO fix your problem? I know their packages are tiered, I would think it would still break. Do you have numbers on how bad HN Hug hit you?

UPDATE Website is backup!

Waiting for another HN Hug of Death......jk...we are prepared.

Being on top and website dead due to HN Hug of Death is SOOO EMBARRASSING

Is there newsletter for which I can sign up ?

"Resource Limit Is Reached"

Massive traffic hit us and we are trying to bring it back now. HN traffic was unexpectedly huge lol

How huge? If I may ask...

Jup sites down

Massive traffic hit us and we are trying to bring it back now. HN traffic was unexpectedly huge lol

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