seems a bit garbled. also, the site renders awkwardly on an iPad. while I see the connection with HN - barely - you've got a ways to go. keep at it though!
The first thing I spotted was that full domains weren't showing next to the links, so for example, story 3 is currently:
Hosni Mubarak has resigned (co.uk)
Showing just the last two sections of the domain is clearly unexpected behaviour. :) The intention is clearly "TLD plus one more section", but not all TLDs are as short as ".com".
This reminds me of the difficulties with cookie domain validation - Mozilla actually contains a hardcoded list of top-level domains: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List
So you could either copy that, or just show the domain in full.
It needs some polish: The tags should not be above the "tag" label. "Like" should be on the left of the article title (similar to upvote here). The line underneath the title should be vertically aligned with the title.
"Welcome" should not be there at all. To the left of "Join" might be a good idea. Your moto should be under your logo, at the very least in the same area (the header).
The drop-down of the search has a scrollbar even with no results.
Your overall color palette might need some tuning (too much darkness/contrast for my taste).
Unfortunately your site broke half-way through, more when it comes back online!
I hope you had fun building it, it's the most important part!
Is there a script ready anyone recommend for alike website as HN ? Got to design one about another subject and do not code at all. ;-) Thanks for your insights.
You seem to have rudimentary protection against XSS, but it's not complete. You should escape properly. Backslashes aren't for escaping characters in html
Thanks mike. i always knew that could be a problem, but was a bit lax cos the results didnt stay on the site.
Have a look now anyways, the google logo doesnt show anymore.
You should allow anonymous submissions until you build up a decent amount of content. Change the green. Use only one font. All the text should be slightly smaller.
Creator of this site used source. Has some interesting features like the ability to create frontpage loaded only with content from users you follow (called hubs).
Friend of mine just put it together and is kind of continually working on it. Not sure what he has planned entirely, but a good example of using HN src.
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[ 0.15 ms ] story [ 62.4 ms ] threadTo: I built this HN-inspired site. What do you think?
Maybe that would inspire a little more conversation.
This reminds me of the difficulties with cookie domain validation - Mozilla actually contains a hardcoded list of top-level domains: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List
So you could either copy that, or just show the domain in full.
"Welcome" should not be there at all. To the left of "Join" might be a good idea. Your moto should be under your logo, at the very least in the same area (the header).
The drop-down of the search has a scrollbar even with no results.
Your overall color palette might need some tuning (too much darkness/contrast for my taste).
Unfortunately your site broke half-way through, more when it comes back online!
I hope you had fun building it, it's the most important part!
You seem to have rudimentary protection against XSS, but it's not complete. You should escape properly. Backslashes aren't for escaping characters in html
OP: care to share some info about the tech behind the scenes?
I have been trying to become more involved in the Israeli high-tech scene. bitorama just became a "Check Daily" tab.
However, great job getting it up and running!
Are you applying for the reddit job?
http://blog.reddit.com/2010/08/reddit-is-hiring.html
What didn't you like about it?
https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc
Creator of this site used source. Has some interesting features like the ability to create frontpage loaded only with content from users you follow (called hubs).
Friend of mine just put it together and is kind of continually working on it. Not sure what he has planned entirely, but a good example of using HN src.