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First impressions: looks unfinished, needs serious design work. Looks deserted, no sense of community.

Reading tools are pretty useless: autoscrolling gets my eyes tired and the slowest speed is too fast for me. Also I don't think people use desktops/laptops to read books. Better to optimize for mobile.

Progress bar, daily wordcount and all that only annoy me as a writer. It's a creative process, sometimes I write 1000 words, sometimes 0, sometimes I delete 1000 words.

But before spending any time on extra features I think an interesting question to ask would be: if I were a writer why would I choose fictionhub to publish my stories? You want to attract writers first of all, how are you going to do it?

Lovely design and ui, feels somewhat scandinavian. Lots of attention to detail, very smooth experience. I wish it had more contrast though because it makes me squint a little, if I had to use it every day I'd go crazy.

Can't edit item titles in place, I have to click item and then edit title in editing area.

First cluster (uncategorized items) is not editable, not draggable, not deletable - is this intentional? I guess it makes sense for uncategorized stuff, but what if I don't need it? Bit annoying.

Graph view would make more sense if I could create nested clusters/items, but since data is always one level deep I don't see why I would use it.

I like how search works very much.

Collaboration works very cool - I can see who edits which item at the moment. The only thing I want here is to have a log of who edited what exactly in each item.

Very positive impression overall.

That said, it doesn't make me want to switch from trello and I kinda hate trello. I'll think about this and let you know if i come up with any specific reason.

(this is my first review ever - was it helpful?)

what's a proper life?

Definitely, browsers become much more standardized and capable.

I left web development job to become a musician several years ago, and while learning music was a great experience, it doesn't pay nearly enough to make a living. I'm constantly broke and barely scraping by, currently i have $20 to last until weekend when my student will (hopefully) pay me ~$10 for a lesson.

I regret leaving IT because i was making good money just coding python and html/css/javascript. And being broke is really, really stressful, especially now that I'm in my thirties. I'm probably going back to programming, but things have changed a lot since 2009 so I'll have to spend some time learning new things like react, es6, new deployment techniques etc.

go and multiply

AFAIK pg was 29 or 30 when he started Viaweb.

I wrote a couple of programs in Python for my Nokia. It was fun.

http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/

Ctrl-Z for undo would be great

How do you calculate credibility rankings?

added:

here's how: http://www.newscred.com/help/credrank

What about online documentation? SVN/Git/etc? Googling programming related stuff?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Very nice, thanks.

None.

FreeBSD 7.0 on dedicated server, Ubuntu 7.10 on 512mb RAM VPS.