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Help us to unfuck online publishing (salon.io)
22 points by lrock on Nov 28, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 24 comments


Here's one of my pages made on the site - with the option to allow visitors to move assets turned on. Scroll & Drag!

http://peterbasmalord.com/ream

(full disclosure I work there!)


Is it just me, or is it really hard to edit text?

I started a test page, and perhaps its my use of Chrome, or the font size, but when I add a text box by doubleclick, the box is immediately obscured by a sizing menu. There seems no way to actually add text without clicking on a size much bigger than the menu and then clicking to the right of it.

This order of operations seems backwards. I would much prefer to type in my text, and then choose to resize it, once I know how big it looks ... not size a blank box as the only way to add text.


you´re right. the interface is kind of broken here. we have to fix this asap


Great idea and execution. Some feedback...I thought from the headline and the name overlap that salon.com was involved until a minute or two into the video.


I thought that too until I read your post actually. Smells like a likely trademark issue.


You know, though I can't talk about the quality of the product, I love the concept. What I don't like one bit is the completely unnecessary use of an F-bomb on the title.


I'm already using it. Totally rocks!


I love that they support GIFs :D


yeah, because that's exactly what the internet needs … more gifs :-D .


Hey, this looks impressive.


Great idea! Looking forward to see how people are going to use it.


Geez, that looks tight! Can you tell us something about the stack?


It's rails for the backend and backbone for the frontend. Most logic written in client side CoffeeScript.


for a moment, the animated glitter gif made me wonder if this was to become the next myspace. but the awesome stuff ppl have been doing with it fortunately proved me wrong. :)


Nice! looks very impressive.


Wordpress has a lot to learn from these guys. I've been wanting drag and drop images to Wordpress posts for years now, for example. Or for Wordpress to at least recognize the width of the text column and automatically resize a larger image to scale down to that size.


Awesome. Instant buy!


ultimately! the best internet building tool ever.


I really like it!


Really awesome!


splendid campaign. hope you'll succeed!


that pixelated dove is killer.


Very nice!


awesome




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