A better alternative to the Heroku add-ons listing

http://addons-catalog.herokuapp.com

by dbinsights • 14 years ago

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mfourcade• 14 years ago

Love it!

Reviews of my peers are great inputs to validate my interest with add-ons!

karl_freeman• 14 years ago

Its not looking too swell my end http://cl.ly/FRWh

dbinsights3• 14 years ago

Sorry about that, seems like I'm having heroku/rails asset pipeline issues. Sure doesn't help get my point across.

jsavimbi4• 14 years ago

Why don't you add a thanks to Heroku for hosting their images for you?

raphinou• 14 years ago

Are these all official heroku add-ons? I didn't find a way to suggest an addition to the list. So here it is: http://wekkars.com Not really an heroku addition, but a service to keep your website responsive. (disclaimer: I'm involved in Wekkars)

namidark3• 14 years ago

You really only need that on the free tier, when 2+ web workers are used 1 at least is always kept around to respond quickly.

neilmiddleton• 14 years ago

All I want is a simple single column list of addons. For instance, the official page has a weird two column thing going on which makes it hard to parse mentally when you're quickly trying to find a specific add-on.

This new attempt doesn't seem to fix my biggest gripe with the whole system (and in the grand scale of things, that's a pretty small gripe)

namidark3• 14 years ago

Awesome concept, love the ratings and comments, hopefully they can make something like this happen on their end

jsavimbi4• 14 years ago

Nice try, but you've only copied their design, removed the polish and added a bunch of unnecessary bollocks to the thing.

Also, people need to read the content, hence their visit to the site. If you're going to insist on using a dark background, at least make the text as bright as possible and remove the text shadow.

namidark3• 14 years ago

It looks fine to me and is as readable as the text on heroku itself

jsavimbi4• 14 years ago

> as readable as the text on heroku

Not exactly a paragon a legibility.

If you're going to pick a dark background, choose a color for the text that will actually contrast and be legible for the widest audience possible, not a shadowed, slightly lighter version of the background.

In essence, this "alternative" does absolutely nothing to improve upon Heroku's version. It's also worse.

A better alternative to the Heroku add-ons listing

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