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At this point it's top of page 3. Normally when mods kill it, it just disappears. I suspect in this case the overt marketing and reubenelli's whiny, entitled tone are encouraging people to flag it. It's only at 8 points, so I doubt it takes too many flags to drive it down the stack.

edit: also, geekli.st is busted on chrome; very few of the images on the front page are loading (works fine in Firefox).



I've received the following error when trying to register: "Found Errors: Screen Name has invalid characters"

Which is bizarre since the username, email address, password all seem to pass the validation test.

The Screen Name in case you were wondering was simply my "firstname.lastname" and it's not an obsence amount of characters (4.9 char)


anthony, could you screenshot the 'busted in chrome' issue and send to us at info@geekli.st? Should be working smoothly! Whatever the reason, it was one of europes leading writers on tech who interviewed and did the article. i suppose if someone writes a positive article it's overt marketing. Thanks for being on geeklist and let us know if you find more bugs! cheers!


Sent.

Well, it looks like a standard PR puff piece to me - I'm not sure (from that article plus looking at geekli.st) exactly what the draw is, other than publishing stuff on the web? I can do that on my own site.

Plus your design kinda sucks, usability-wise - massive fonts, huge whitespace and line spacing mean that I can see the cards from my secret moonbase lair. I also have to scroll, even on a 1920x1080 monitor, and squint, because your colors are like, #999 on #EEE.

You also need to figure out a way to get people to fill in details about their cards, or kill the extra info part. Every card says "I did 'X', details: <no info> with: <no contributors>". (That's not a bug in Chrome, I just checked in Firefox too). So if you can't get one of the founding technical guys from Skype to brag a bit more (http://geekli.st/taavet/helped-grow-skype-from-zero-to-first...), what's going on?




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