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9 pointsmourad11 comments

Hi Everyone,

This is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I read HN daily. I just launched a website that helps people organize plans, post events and share experiences.

http://www.plangr.com

Briefly: I am a web developer and designer. The website came from a personal needs, I remember when I went to visit my uncle in Frankfurt and I wanted to play basketball but I couldn’t, I didn't know anybody their beside my uncle. At that time I thought about a website that could help people, not only organize their own plans, but also share and experience them with other people having same tastes.

So, after several months of work, time to get some feedbacks just arrived, and this is why i am sending you this post.

As excited as I am about finally getting to share plans ans events in my city and new cities, I am even more excited to see what our friends on HN can do!

Mourad

Hi Mourad,

- make the text on home pagereal text, not images - Get someone to review the copy, there are a few mistakes and weird wordings - Maybe show some different places on the maps - when I search for something when notlogged in, I arrive at some sort of empty results page. Maybe hide the search box when I'm not logged in?

thank you for your reply!

Relatedly, don't underestimate the contribution that quality typography makes to a sites perceived professionalism. I'd play around with some non-user-agent typefaces (using @font-face) for you homepage copy and links. Off the top of my head, looking at the site, maybe a Museo font (see: http://www.trybloc.com -- no affiliation, but they use the font for their heading).

thank you for your comment, I will try to look for a more convenient font.

The activation email said:

    Activate account at example.com:
    http://example.com/accounts/activate/xxxx

Instead of something like

   Activate account at plangr.com:
   http://www.plangr.com/accounts/activate/xxxx

done. thank you.

It won't let me sign up. It has a banner at the top saying "Enter valid information" and "full name:" is red, but I have no idea what's wrong with my name.

Hi iamds,

The error message isn't enough clear, the name should be at least 4 characters. Sorry again.

The left and right arrows feel too low. I expected them to be more in line with the Feedback tab on the right.

done, thank you.

clickable: http://www.plangr.com

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