Look at that - the top post only had 7 votes! This is an actual screenshot from the early days. So I came up with the idea to slide the comments in from the side, like this:
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A full page-load felt like too much, but putting comments inline the way facebook does it felt like too little (and too derivative).
I figured not many people would want to view a discussion (let alone contribute to it) if you had to totally shift contexts. There was very little discussion in the original Linkydink group. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to display comments, especially. Instead, what I cared about was the design and user experience. It honestly doesn’t bother me, but good engineers would never do those things. I’m fine with writing a N+1 query to get an MVP out of the door. I have no trouble leaving things out like unit tests. I don’t fully grasp all the corners I’m cutting. In that sense, it actually helps that I’m not a very good engineer. But it’s usually best to just get it out there as soon as you can. You’ve got to fix those things right after you ship. There were a lot of rough parts and obvious holes (pagination, notifications, search, profiles).
It needs to grow in order to support it’s users. Of course, you can’t keep a product that simple for very long. Users can login with Twitter - the primary place our target audience hangs out. I tried to keep the structure of the app as simple as possible.
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