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We have heard that during our alpha as well. Do you mean the home page or when looking at one of the lists? Or both?

One of our challenges has been to present a lot of information without, well, looking too spammy. We'll continue to work on it.

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The whole thing. Which is odd, because the information isn't actually that spammy, it just looks that way for some reason. Sorry I can't give you a real reason.

A lot of spam websites I've seen have slightly similar colour schemes. You know the ones with a ton of text, with selected words highlighted with a yellow background.. ok so it's orange, but it's the only thing I can think of. And I do think there is just way too much text on the front page.

Very interesting. We actually got feedback that we didn't have enough on the front page before (and as result, we weren't getting the main idea of site across).

Do you think the 'too much text on the front page' issue is primarily because of our example lists (the 'popular','recent', and 'featured' lists)?

Thanks for the thoughts.

The white square boxes on the two sides reminds me of google ads.

OK, good to know. We'll definitely try some tweaks to decrease the spamminess of the site.

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