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Comment by bajsejohannes | Hacker News Reader

Very nice!

One little thing: On the right sidebar, before your first upload, it says:

  Free account 
  Shares live longer
  Live statistics
  create account

I'm pretty sure that is supposed to mean that shares live longer and you get live statistics if you have an account, but I think it reads the other way around: Free account means that your shares lives longer.

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You mean that people don't associate the "live longer, live sta..." with creating an account or how do you mean?

Yes. To be precise - I didn't visually connect them. The following text layout:

  Free account 
  X
  Y
  create account

(especially with the design on ge.tt) looks to me like: "Free account has feature X and Y - create an account to remove these". Looking at the values for X and Y, that couldn't be what you meant, but it took a second for me to realize. Maybe it's just me...

(I like the text better once you've uploaded something. Then there is a header with "Create an account and get access to:")

Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean.

We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.

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