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Duuble: microblogging diary

by liu3hao on 9/4/11, 3:46 PM with 23 comments

• by jorangreef on 9/4/11, 4:18 PM

  Well done on shipping. Here are some things that can be improved:

  1. Increase the font-size from 13px to 16px and set line-height 24px to make the type friendly.

  2. Increase the height of your input fields and buttons to 28px to make them easier to focus and click on.

  3. For the diary image on your front page, show a diary that has something written in it. Even better, show a screenshot of a Duuble diary.

  4. Combine "First name" and "Last name" fields into "Your Name" for better internationalization and less visual elements / tabbing.

  5. Move the "Tweet" button away from your sign up form to top right of the page. Use the official Twitter button. People are used to it.

  6. The "Read more about Duuble" button should be a link not a button.

• by datawalke on 9/4/11, 4:04 PM

  First Impression: For some reason, unless I can see an example of exactly what this looks like / a demo I can't see myself signing up.

  Signing up was fairly quick. However making my first post was a little troublesome: Hitting the "enter" button when didn't seem to post anything. The overall feel here feels less like a diary and more like a self-contained twitter feed. I think it's the atmosphere of the application that is throwing me off the most.

  Congrats on shipping a product though! I'll continue to try it out.

• by eegilbert on 9/4/11, 4:04 PM

  A communications scholar at Cornell named Lee Humphreys has a paper under review that compares Twitter to 18th century diaries. Apparently, it was common practice for people (mostly women) to keep short accounts of daily life in their journals. Every six months, they swapped the diaries with their friends and family. The Twitter of the 18th century. Old is new again.

• by maxjaderberg on 9/4/11, 4:12 PM

  I think a demo is definitely needed on the homepage to convert signups.

  Design wise, just be careful with using such light grey text on white background, as you can barely read some things. For example, the "bars" layout is unreadable on my screen unless you hover over a post.

• by crazydiamond on 9/5/11, 6:37 AM

  Interesting. I wanted to edit a post in order to add a tag. Unable to edit. Also, why not use the same tag format as twitter since people will be used to that.

  Is there any API so I can send feeds through command-line. I already have a bash script called "whatidid" which logs to a text file and mails the file to my gmail account. I could push it to duuble.

• by mhd on 9/4/11, 4:14 PM

  Are metal umlauts the new left out vowels for Web 2.x? Will we see "flickr" renamed to "flïckër"?

• by sathishmanohar on 9/4/11, 8:02 PM

  Sorry for being negative. I would say its bad design.

  Why does a daily dairy site has to be like twitter? Yours is a original concept. Pour some thoughts into it and come up with original design. :)

• by mhd on 9/4/11, 4:24 PM

  Is the lack of nicknames intentional? Sure, for a private diary I don't need to see "xxCuteHoneyPiexx" in the browser, but one might prefer to "blug" as that instead of "Deborah.Jingleheimer".

• by akarambir on 9/4/11, 5:10 PM

  aren't there any username? So that i can go to my blug by http://duuble.com/username

• by zoom on 9/4/11, 5:11 PM

  I like lots.

• by shpoonj on 9/4/11, 8:15 PM

  Scoured the front page.

  Still have no idea what this is.