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Could you give more information? It's pretty empty and I don't even know what it's supposed to do.

So the screen you see upon loading at the tags associated with the most recent posts that people have made. If you create a post you self-tag it using the #tag method. Choose a tag to explore all posts under that category. Posts without any #tag in them get assigned noTag

after initially being totally bemused - 'what is this?','how do i get it to do something'? 'what am i supposed to click?'

.. i returned here, read this comment and then after about 3-4 clicks I finally got it to actually deliver what i am after, which is actually seeing some content.

if this is about sharing / showing people some content - show people some content ! right from the beginning! then let them filter or whatever to dig in deeper and start posting their own etc

good point, it seems like you and akkartik both got it after spending a minute digging around. I'll update it to have some content open on page load

The idea was to try to create something that lives in the space between twitter and 4chan. You have the basic functionality of an image board, but it is much more free form and lends itself to short form messages

I made some posts in Unicode and the tags got converted to numbers and the posts are blank :(

Just saw this. I had some protection since hn took down the last site I posted, but I'll work on updating.

Please study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement. All the content is siloed behind js, and there's no way for anyone to write hypertext which references it.

Cool. But I cannot figure out what to do. Its like Color.

Are there any plans for (pseudonymous) identity?

At the moment no. Out of curiosity, would you find the project more compelling if there was some form of identity?

What do you mean by self-categorizing?

User's tag their own post, creating a dynamic list of categories on the left side of the screen

Given the description, I was expecting it to automatically infer the content of images and categorize them.

Yes, even I expected it to automatically tag images. But after reading the instructions (which was hard to get at first look), I got what the site does.

sweet gifs

The UI doesn't make any sense.

Is the layout, or the lack of instructions? I thought the tag->thread->responses would be somewhat intuitive

The fading rabbit misleads the eyes. At the start I didn't even notice there were those two tiny lines of text (the threads) way above it.

Is it any more apparent once the categories have more items (for example the noTag category)? What changes would you suggest?

Yeah. Already it's hard to remember why it wasn't clear. Maybe you should open up an example of thread and responses. Have the app show stuff to engage with right from the first page load, don't rely on people to click twice to see how it works. There's 12 things to click on the first view. Don't rely on them clicking the right thing.

Edit: What's that rabbit for, anyway? Why is the header/logo/mascot on the bottom right? Why does shit overlay it without covering it?

Thanks for the input. I'm going to change it so that some content is already open on page load, hopefully that will be a better starting point. The overlay is so that you can still tell something is loading with the ajax, but you are right, that might be a bit much, especially for the pictures

Yeah. Maybe put it on the top right and make it smaller?

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