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I like it. It's very simple and if I enjoy the music, I can see myself coming here when I want something fresh to listen to. That being said, the text and icon

I like it. It's very simple and if I enjoy the music, I can see myself coming here when I want something fresh to listen to. That being said, the text and icons are really hard to see. They blend into the white background too much. *edit: The password is showing clear text. Why?

DTrejo 16y ago
We ask for very little information from users, and asking for an email to reset the pass felt like too much.* Thanks for bringing this up as we are probably going to change this and make it more secure. *when you can see your pass it's harder to forget
- SkyMarshal 16y ago
  Three fields should be ok - username, pass, confirm pass. Better that than visible passwords. If users want to add their email and other info later, have an Account page for that.
- blasdel 16y ago
  Please stop paying attention to Jakob Nielsen. Password masking, along with asking for a password confirmation, is what everyone expects. Any affected attempt at 'simplifying' that UI without a total transformation (like no accounts at all, not shit like openid) leads directly to anger and disillusionment when their plaintext password is staring them in the face. Use <input type=password>. Use two of them when registering, and one when logging in. It's a basic affordance, don't fuck with it.
  - DTrejo 16y ago
    How would you feel if we obliterated accounts completely?
    - blasdel 16y ago
      Well, are they doing anything now? I've been favoriting tracks but it's not clear that it has any effect on what gets played. You're saving the tracks I fave, but then I can't do anything with them except delete them — which should absolutely not use the same heart icon you use for creation. I clicked it thinking it would play that track again, and POOF.
alanh 16y ago
I agree 100% with everything Sherb is saying. I also liked the ajax signup. I was very afraid of the song being killed. I have to say, I non-ironically LOVE Mixest! Edit: Slightly irked that Play and Pause are text (a minor quibble, to be sure) — Just a guess: You guys searched for the Unicode play/pause/next icons and, having realized they don’t exist, gave up on that idea for now, right? Feature request: Last.fm scrobbling. Incredible Pandora doesn’t have this. They aren’t really direct competitors in terms of the use-cases they focus on.
- DTrejo 16y ago
  We do have hotkeys if that makes things any better :) Press '?' to get them to show up (just like gmail). Also there's an easter egg but it's not konami so I don't expect anyone to find it.
  - alanh 16y ago
    I discovered the play/pause hotkey (space — great choice, by the way — can’t believe Windows Media Player doesn’t support this!) by accident as I tabbed onto the "Register" button and attempted to trigger it with my spacebar. Edit: Baaa! I found your nano-easter egg. :)
  - ericz 16y ago
    Took me a sec but ? is the same as pressing shift+/
  - itistoday 16y ago
    Anyway you can get that to work nicely with Firefox's find-as-you-type feature?
pixelcloud 16y ago
I agree, change those shades of grey to something a bit more readable.

DTrejo 16y ago

We ask for very little information from users, and asking for an email to reset the pass felt like too much.* Thanks for bringing this up as we are probably going to change this and make it more secure. *when you can see your pass it's harder to forget

SkyMarshal 16y ago
Three fields should be ok - username, pass, confirm pass. Better that than visible passwords. If users want to add their email and other info later, have an Account page for that.
blasdel 16y ago
Please stop paying attention to Jakob Nielsen. Password masking, along with asking for a password confirmation, is what everyone expects. Any affected attempt at 'simplifying' that UI without a total transformation (like no accounts at all, not shit like openid) leads directly to anger and disillusionment when their plaintext password is staring them in the face. Use <input type=password>. Use two of them when registering, and one when logging in. It's a basic affordance, don't fuck with it.
- DTrejo 16y ago
  How would you feel if we obliterated accounts completely?
  - blasdel 16y ago
    Well, are they doing anything now? I've been favoriting tracks but it's not clear that it has any effect on what gets played. You're saving the tracks I fave, but then I can't do anything with them except delete them — which should absolutely not use the same heart icon you use for creation. I clicked it thinking it would play that track again, and POOF.

alanh 16y ago

I agree 100% with everything Sherb is saying. I also liked the ajax signup. I was very afraid of the song being killed. I have to say, I non-ironically LOVE Mixest! Edit: Slightly irked that Play and Pause are text (a minor quibble, to be sure) — Just a guess: You guys searched for the Unicode play/pause/next icons and, having realized they don’t exist, gave up on that idea for now, right? Feature request: Last.fm scrobbling. Incredible Pandora doesn’t have this. They aren’t really direct competitors in terms of the use-cases they focus on.

DTrejo 16y ago
We do have hotkeys if that makes things any better :) Press '?' to get them to show up (just like gmail). Also there's an easter egg but it's not konami so I don't expect anyone to find it.
- alanh 16y ago
  I discovered the play/pause hotkey (space — great choice, by the way — can’t believe Windows Media Player doesn’t support this!) by accident as I tabbed onto the "Register" button and attempted to trigger it with my spacebar. Edit: Baaa! I found your nano-easter egg. :)
- ericz 16y ago
  Took me a sec but ? is the same as pressing shift+/
- itistoday 16y ago
  Anyway you can get that to work nicely with Firefox's find-as-you-type feature?

pixelcloud 16y ago

I agree, change those shades of grey to something a bit more readable.