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Exactly. Recently I asked a friend to check out a site I just uploaded, he sent me some nice compliments. Later I realized that on IE (which he uses) the layout was all off.

I need to find some meaner friends.

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You need honest friends. I looked at a little iOS game a friend of mine was doing. I told him what I like about it. I also told him everything I thought was wrong about it. He was asking me for honest feedback so I gave it.

I didn't have to be mean about it, just clear and straight forward. "I don't like the way this works because ..." "I don't like the way this looks because ..."

Real feedback is much more helpful.

in my experience, most ppl even friends won't give much of a damn about your site, and will just casually play around with it and say 'that's nice'.

however, a stranger that needs your site will give you a bunch of gems.

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