I humbly ask for your precious feedback for my site http://collectivesys.com
It's technically a Wiki + social networking site, and semantically a crowd-sourced review + social news site.
I hope to make it the one-stop hub for evaluation of anything in the world.
Last but not the least, sorry for trading your direct link convenience with my two paragraphs.
Many thank in advance.
Jerry
"It's technically a Wiki + social networking site, and semantically a crowd-sourced review + social news site."
Put that in active tense:
"Read, edit and publish news and important stuff. Contact others and talk about stuff"
Also, entries have the URL linked to the source. You might not wanna do that. I recommend a URL from the front page should go to a summary page, where people can read and post reviews, and there should be a big button/link where they can go to the original.
Having a separate page will help you with .. err, figure that out, I'm not sure I want to go there now that I remember the adsense ;-)
In fact, the AdSense is there just to align the user expectation from day one. Anyway, I can't agree more how annoying they can be and am going to turn them off now.
Thanks for your advice on the summary.
What I fear most finally comes true -- not even HN users can immediately figure out how to use the site (which was purposely left out from the brief)...
How about some hints like you can get all news regarding social networking websites:
http://bit.ly/dc6ko
http://bit.ly/3Qhr9s
Also, I think the ratings system for different products is difficult to understand. (I clicked on the anti-virus link from the about page, then on the Avast link. "objectiveness"? huh?)