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Re: NeutronBot.com ::: Best Site Ever
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:16:09 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, James Wilson wrote:
   Ahh, Mystery Meat navigation at its best/worst!

I’m sure there are some cool things there, but all I see on the front page (in Firefox 1.0) is 7 hexagons. Nothing tells me what to do. Oooh, if I mouse over the hexagons they change colors! This must be some kind of computer game! Wait, there are some tiny names at the bottom - what happens if I click one? Oh, Lego stuff! Cool.

(end sarcasm)

Cool MOCS, but IMHO, the front page tries to hard to be “cool” and doesn’t try hard enough to let me know what to do.

Try clicking one of the hexagons, silly.



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  Re: NeutronBot.com ::: Best Site Ever
 
(...) Could stand to be dialed down a bit IMHO. (...) This isn't .space... try less smack, doofus(1). Smack is out of place in .publish... and a lot of other places on LUGNET too, unless you're sure it's friendly banter. See the ToS if you're (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
  Re: NeutronBot.com ::: Best Site Ever
 
(...) Why should I do that? They're just hexagons - they don't say what they're for or where they go. You mean I should just click stuff willy-nilly when it's not clear what it's for? If the point of a web site is to disseminate information, (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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  Re: NeutronBot.com ::: Best Site Ever
 
Ahh, (URL) Mystery Meat> navigation at its best/worst! I'm sure there are some cool things there, but all I see on the front page (in Firefox 1.0) is 7 hexagons. Nothing tells me what to do. Oooh, if I mouse over the hexagons they change colors! (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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