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The mockups look great. Gut reaction is that you are clearly inspired by Facebook, but there's only so many ways to peel this particular orange. I'd consider a

The mockups look great. Gut reaction is that you are clearly inspired by Facebook, but there's only so many ways to peel this particular orange. I'd consider a primary color change as a quick and painless way to distance the two; I think it's the blue that's keying me to Facebook the most. There's an argument about whether that's fair, that they psychologically own social blue in my mind, but better to differentiate (in my mind).

michaelchisari 15y ago
there's only so many ways to peel this particular orange. It's true, there's certain paradigms that just work, and I played around quite a bit with more experimental approaches, and I just couldn't see the user flow working in a way that didn't throw users completely for a loop. I'd consider a color change as a quick and painless way to distance the two. With the beauty of Appleseed themes and CSS, I'll probably try and have three or four variations on this layout for the 1.0 release.
- jdp23 15y ago
  agreed, definitely try to lead with one that has less facebook-y and diaspora-y colors
  - blhack 15y ago
    Is diaspora really at a point where things can be diaspora-y?
    - jdp23 15y ago
      Fair enough. But from a positioning perspective, Diaspora's got a lot more visibility than Appleseed; so it's important for Michael to highlight the differentiation.
oniTony 15y ago
Most social networks are in various shades of blue. http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-social-networking-sites-blue http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-social-networking-sites-bl...
- michaelchisari 15y ago
  I'll concur with this. Originally, Appleseed was green, and people hated it. I tried various different color schemes, and while I don't think social software has to be blue, blue color schemes are definitely the easiest to make work.