Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
allbst.com
allbst.com
Based on yours and other users' feedback below, we are going to rework the home page so that it accomplishes the following:
1. Use newly designed interface elements for groups that, inside of them, shows the latest 4 to 6 products last posted in that group. In other words, you will basically see a large square, representing a group, with a bunch of small squares inside of it (representing the latest products in it). This will get rid of the spammy look and also emphasize the fact that the elements on the home page are actually groups of products.
2. Modify the header section to explain what the site does and what is unique about it.
I will be working on these items tomorrow and should have them completed by the end of the day.
Thank you for taking the time to provide your very constructive feedback.
I think it's a good idea however I suspect you're up against the very popular and local buy/sell/swap groups on facebook. Plus there's craigslist and gumtree.
Not to say there isn't room in the market for another such offering. Good luck with it but I would say it's not immediately obvious what those front page blocks represent.
The stacked tiles is a major bug that has been tough to fix.
Email error is new and I will fix that right now.
I will attempt to make the tiles on the home page more obvious as to their function. Totally agree with you.
Thanks so much for the valuable feedback.
1. Error popups fixed.
2. Attempted to fix tile overlapping problem by adding in a font-loaded event listener that does a tile re-layout when triggered. Apparently, asynchronously loading fonts can cause the overlapping problem. Hard to replicate. Hopefully we don't see this again.
3. Coming up with new layout for the home page to better describe what is going on.
We will make the avatar optional during registration. If you don't select an avatar, we will just use a default round allBST logo image. You will be able to update your avatar at a later date in the account section.
This will be done tomorrow.
Thank you for taking the time to let us know about this.
We will add a "New or Used" option when creating a product and display that.
In your particular case, the clock is actually brand new but unwrapped :]
I tried to signup but couldn't.
The join button wont activate .
if you can provide a test account, I can provide some feedback .
I am not an advocate for offering social logins, but I kinda feel that for this site, it would be actually useful.
Very sorry about the registration form not working. I will look into it further.
Can you please ensure that you have filled out the following form fields:
+ email + first name + last name + password + avatar
I think it may be possible that one of the fields above wasn't filled out however it's also entirely possible that they were and our system isn't working properly.
Regarding the social logins, we have been asked this before. I will add it to the list and have it done ASAP.