top | item 21177069

(no title)

__max__ | 6 years ago

Thanks a lot :)

The only thing I find a bit unfortunate is that despite many people trying it (wordpress shows over 5000 hits), very few people are using the share feature to share what they've created. I'll have to investigate what stops people. I'm wondering if it's just having to create an account, or if I've done some major UI design error.

discuss

order

pierrec|6 years ago

That seems to be normal... I created a very similar platform (but text-based instead of graphical) and encountered the same problem. Despite the traffic, so far only 3 people shared anything on it: me, the guy who created the underlying language, and one brave soul who submitted cool bytebeat patches.

Maybe that's just the proportion of people willing to share their experiments. Maybe we need to create incentives for people to post (like... challenges?) It might also have to do with advertising to the right crowd.

maitredusoi|6 years ago

I think people are just too afraid too share, as they are effectively doing fun things but... really they then think that it is just crap. We are too much in a society that is telling us that if we made it in less than an hour, it can only be crap. This is one thing the the near futur of the earth must fix ;)

If sharing IS important for you, change you design in the way that it becomes the default option.

__max__|6 years ago

I myself feel a little embarrassed when I realize how much is missing from Zupiter. There are still bugs, and people are asking for so many extra features, my TODO list is already pages long.

> If sharing IS important for you, change you design in the way that it becomes the default option.

How would you implement that, making it the default option?