First of all - I like the concept - if it develops enough community weight behind it, it could be quite an influential tool.
What's not clear to me is what that community is exactly - are you targeting a particular segment?
I like the look and feel generally. Although - I find the actual site being reviewed today a bit bland, so that might give a poorer first impression.
I personally think the bottom worthyy bar is a bit too big vertically, especially given it's only giving a few discrete bits of information and some links - I work on a laptop a lot though, so I'm a bit precious about screen realestate.
If you are going to take up that realestate - then I'd put some more information there. For example a "worm" graph of what people thing - or have a sort-of twitter feed of top comments... Hmmm... On the other hand, that might be just annoying.
It also doesn't seem to play nice with resizing - (Firefox3 on Mac).
Thanks so much for the feedback - With regards to my target, I'm going to have to let any exposure the site might get dictate this preliminarily. Ideally, my target is people who will likely never see any coverage worthyy might get on most relevant blogs. The less web-savvy casual user who has never heard of sites like TechCrunch, Mashable, Killer Startups, etc. These are the users who would not only benefit most from a site like this, but who many of the sites worthyy covers have the most trouble reaching.
Of course reaching these users is a time-consuming (let alone expensive) process I've yet to begin to tackle. If I survive the first few months, it will become my focus.
In terms of real estate, I would be very appreciative if you could shoot me a screen shot (zach --at-- worthyy --dot-- com). I've tried to keep the sizing as short as possible but I do have future plans for the currently unused real estate so finding a compromise was difficult.
Lastly with regards to resizing, I view this as a huge issue that I unfortunately don't think I'll be able to address with v1. After analyzing my spec, the developers agreed that iFrames would provide the best solution for the homepage. I did what research I could with the resources I had and eventually agreed. The site sizes and positions the frames according to the real estate available when the page loads and as such, resizing is a disaster. Whatever you do, don't view it full screen... ;)
Hopefully I can manage to generate some interest/traffic that might warrant revisiting the current implementation but for the time being, my budget for the site is pretty small. If you or anyone else has an idea as to a possible fix, I would love to look into it.
No worries - They are mostly just nitpicks - I think it's a interesting concept.
I'll fire you a screenshot when I get back tonight.
The community question is an interesting one - the site would be more sticky if it's relevant to the users. e.g. HN is useful because it's relevant to me in the startup domain, and the community reinforces that. At the same time, you also need to have it a little bit diverse to keep people interested.
So yeah, it's a fine line - but as you say, this could be something that evolves rather than being designed. I'm guessing the initial selections will jumpstart it in one direction or another.
That's my hope, for sure. Ultimately, I'd love enough interest to be able to fan out a bit. By that, I mean keep the "less is more" one site, one day theme but break it down into less broad categories. ie hacking.worthyy.com, art.worthyy.com, social.worthyy.com, etc
Thanks again for taking the time to shoot me a screen shot - much appreciated.
What's not clear to me is what that community is exactly - are you targeting a particular segment?
I like the look and feel generally. Although - I find the actual site being reviewed today a bit bland, so that might give a poorer first impression.
I personally think the bottom worthyy bar is a bit too big vertically, especially given it's only giving a few discrete bits of information and some links - I work on a laptop a lot though, so I'm a bit precious about screen realestate.
If you are going to take up that realestate - then I'd put some more information there. For example a "worm" graph of what people thing - or have a sort-of twitter feed of top comments... Hmmm... On the other hand, that might be just annoying.
It also doesn't seem to play nice with resizing - (Firefox3 on Mac).