Seconded. I've been using NetNewsWire for a couple of decades, and it does the unglamorous job of displaying feeds without ads, nags, or feature churn.
I'm not sure if i fit in the group this is meant for but as a point of feedback: I really can't make up from your description and the front page what youphenom actually _is_ or does. The descriptions and examples on the website could use a lot of improvement to deliver the context and message, it's just too vague.
The general styling of the app and website look and feel a bit outdated, maybe a bit resemblant of how apps looked like on the early iPhone. I think this could be a big limiting factor in attracting new users for your platform.
I hope this isn't too harsh or blunt, I think the combination of games and social networking could work, but only if it's executed really well in order to attract the users it needs.
I can recommend organizing some feedback sessions with testers or users that are outside of your team or company and gather first impressions in order to improve on the above.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback. Bluntness and even harshness are appreciated as they help us to (re)consider what is potentially not well explained or not well designed.
I’m pretty sure there is more to be desired from the description, but part of it is that such concept does not exist. Similar to how alien seemed to offer a service where users can upload pictures of their lunch or stay at strangers’ homes, it’s probably unclear why is this necessary/useful.
Trying to simplify the description takes away some of the dimensions to it, but the platform is like a professional league for social media content creators.
Another example, what the platform does: For example Nike had brick and mortar stores and great sales even before the Internet, but doing their business online greatly expanded their sales and brand awareness. Sports teams to this day don’t have this opportunity - to compete online (not just sell some merch). It would be too long to list all the ramifications/benefits from this, but they are similar to before and after businesses started to engage with customers on social media.
As for the outdated design, we like to think of it more as classic, but we understand your point.
We’ll definitely consider your recommendations
Cheers
One of the stable open source projects that is running the webradio for our foundation that promotes new bands for years now. Buster Neece truly is a legend and a saint in tirelessly developing and offering support for Azurecast as well (and putting up with all the demanding people that come along with it.).
I echo this sentiment. For the space this project is in, it's amazing the amount of support and coverage it gets from Buster & all the maintainers. This a good example of an open-source community done very well.
Although i liked the first bit of Zen (Which this article seems to be referencing), it quicky lost me in the second half where Pirsig goes rambling on on his quasi-filosofic subjects. Definitely gave me hard time to keep on reading.
I had a slightly different experience with that second half. I sure had a hard time following his philosophy, but I had no trouble keeping on reading it... I might even go so far as to call it a page-turner. It was one of those works where I couldn't tell if the writer was a genius or a madman (or both, as he seems to profess) but either way it is written in a fashion that just draws the reader in; it gives the impression of making sense at every line, but you stop and the end of a chapter and realize that you've hardly grokked any of it.
Haha, that exactly describes my experience also. At the time I thought it was due to a language barrier - that my english wasn't good enough (2nd language) but I guess it's the book. Definitely a unique piece of work, at the very least.
I echo this - after Zen, Lila was a huge disappointment, eventually degenerating into a long rant about the author's unhappiness with aspects of his existence.
The Dutch government is unfortunately known for having IT projects fail constantly, they've already accumulated an enormous technical debt. They outsource a lot because the current staff is either close to retirement or just can't be motivated anymore to put in the effort. Hearing this is the least surprising to be honest.
I've done quite a bit of work in Dutch government IT and would like to add that the failure of these projects is often because of politics and constantly changing requirements. IT is often working really hard and doing the best they can, but scope creep, forced deadlines and constant changes in leadership make it nearly impossible to actually do things right.
Technical debt is also a huge issue indeed, since focus is always on delivering new features, because that allows leadership to move to new positions. Delivering stable maintainable code/infra isn't visible.
I used to work at a company that recovered and decommissioned freon. If some tech came by with a cylinder filled with R12 it would many times mysteriously disappear from storage. Probably because it sells for an insane price and is very rare in my region.
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