Any feedback appreciated for Ajax IRC/Telnet/games project
mibbit.com
mibbit.com
Screenshots: IRC plugin: http://www.mibbit.com/mibbit.png Telnet plugin: http://www.mibbit.com/telnet.png Jigsaw game: http://www.mibbit.com/jigsaw.png
It's just running on my home ADSL at the moment, so if you can't get into some of the IRC servers that may be why (I don't have an i-line yet).
The site should work ok on FF/IE, and mostly ok on Opera bar a few cosmetic issues. Probably doesn't work too well on anything else at the moment.
I have lots of big ideas for it, but would be interested to hear any early feedback for it so far.
For sure nice work.
However, the UI is really bad; I'm not sure where to begin. Once I log into an irc server, how do I play games? I remember seeing a selection for it when I first came to mibbit, but now it is gone.
When I first start chatting my messages aren't visible (because they're scrolled offscreen).
And it's really, painfully ugly. You might want to recruit a UI designer, or steal some styles from adium or xchat.
To play games/connect to other IRC servers/etc etc just click on the 'welcome tab' again.
Not sure about the scrolling messages, the chat output will scroll as long as the scrollbar is at the bottom. If you resize the window that can sometimes affect the scrollbar position so it could have been that.
I should have explained, this isn't something I'd show end users, it's just an early stage hard to use prototype.
I might be slow but I have no idea what the site does :)
Definitely looks like you put a lot of work into it, so let me know what it is.
- IRC client - Telnet client - Multi player jigsaw game
You need to make it dead clear what the website does if you want to retain any users.
Anyway, you should probably have something more to distinguish yourself besides just being online-only. The Volity system is actually pretty interesting; it works over Jabber.