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Show HN: Clojure in the Open – simple tasks from open-source projects

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This is a really cool idea, and I like the newsletter layout. My only critique is that it's not immediately clear what the site is for, and the paragraph that spells it out (top-left), is not in a position that I would tend to read first (I went logo then skim "Art of the Propogator" quote). It may be worth considering giving that paragraph a more prominent place, at least for the first few editions (or maybe just the web version, since presumably people know why they gave you their email address).

Seconded: I just fell into the same UX faster than I could even think. Much agreed about the masthead space -- I was visually expecting that paragraph to introduce the site.

This really looks like something I'll include in my regular Clojure reading!

That's great feedback from both of you, I'm changing that up though it's tricky due to all the media queries and the columns matching up in size, but I'm almost done with this and other improvements. Thanks!

Maybe it's just me, but I find the site difficult to view due to the light contrast.

Hey, I designed it, and I've felt the pain of low contrast so often yet I guess when you're knee deep making it all look right you lose sight of the forest. I'm uploading a version with more contrast, let's see how people find it.

The headers could use a different (darker) color to offset them. Right now it's easy for the eye to skip from section to section.

Me too. What's with all the pink. Atleast, give the user an option to choose from 6 or so basic colors.

You can have any colour you want. As long as it's pink ;)

I'd be perfectly happy with the current pink and a 'night mode' alternative (I wish more sites had this as an option).

Great idea! I was thinking black & white, high contrast alternative--maybe both--but I'm a sucker for night modes. Says my Emacs and Duckduckgo setting.

Run this in your console:

  $('.navigation').css('background', '#222');

Thanks! If it wasn't for this I would have given up on this site for being unreadable.

totally agree, this makes the site readable :)

This is a fantastic idea, I really like it.

Any chance I could subscribe through RSS instead of e-mail?

Thanks for reminding of RSS, I'll include it soon enough.

Thanks for sharing - I wonder if there are sites like this for other languages?

Looks good. I'm a content over style guy so I didn't mind palest of pink on white background.

I signed up. I see you mailchimp, just like def newsletter.

Compare and contrast with Normand's weekly "clojure gazette" or "def newsletter" which have very similar at first glance biz models. I think I know the difference, but you should probably talk about it on your site.

Very cool! Now we have a great way of answering that all too common question on the Clojure group, "how do I find a project to contribute to?"

This is great. I'd like a lower contrast version though. I have a bit of trouble reading it.

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