The lines are far too long, it would certainly benefit from more leading, larger sizing would be nice, and a typeface with a larger x-height (times is so tiny), would greatly improve readability.

thanks for the feedback - am not mad good at the old graphic design, but it's all too easy to just say "I can't be bothered with that stuff"... I'll try and make some improvements. I gather it looks particularly ugly on windows, must take a look...

have started by fixing a windows fallback font for the text so that it's not Times!

In an Apple store they're often portable.

But what's the catch?

It's Free Software, you can run it yourself or switch providers at will. The catch may be in the lack of features compared to a proprietary option (like Heroku)

From their faq page: To get more information on the pricing and timing of a paid version of OpenShift please send an email to [email protected]

Yeah, is it free as in beer? For life? No matter how much it has to scale to?

If it is, I would like to understand the reasoning behind that? Is it to gain traction and visibility for Red Hate as a PaaS? And then...

It is in open beta and has big warning labels to not use in production.

The free tier is limited in resources; When you want more, you'll be expected to pay for more (once they begin to offer paid plans).

I employ the 'readable' bookmarklet for situations like this. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

Yeah, that's what I eventually ended up doing. I only bothered to turn on my bookmark toolbar and use it in this case though because I had a particularly strong interest in reading this article. In most other cases I would have passed it by.

It's just unbelievable, really. Can you imagine the outrage if Microsoft did this with Word?

They might have until around 2001(/2002?) when they got serious about security, to be fair.

Huh. Guess I was wrong, then.

Fun to have a little play around in, although I'm not sure how much programming I'd get done playing with this ;).

http://www.incredibox.com/?music=4F9B48F2E5B02

I've spent 5 minutes looking around trying to work out what your app does and I still don't really know.

@ralphsaunders we really appreciate the honest feedback. Hall is collaboration for your company and team. Our current product is the War Room which enables team collaboration (chat, video, file sharing, rt notes) all in one place.

We hope you'll give us another chance by creating a war room for your team and letting us know what you think. Thanks! brett @ hall-inc.com

Apparently it's exactly like SGI InPerson, without the 3D model sharing and 15 years later :) Actually it looks pretty neat and it's great that we finally have all features from my Indy on modern systems :)

I'd recommend changing the hero text on your main site's home page to something like "Hall is collaboration for your company and team, all in one place" from the current "Working Together in War Rooms Doubles Teams' Productivity", then.

"War rooms" as a concept already exist outside the context of your app; when I first saw the site, I didn't understand how the statement connected to your app. I thought it was just a generic statement about war rooms, which was confusing.

Really appreciate the feedback. We'll be iterating on the landing page soon to keep up with the actual product inside.

Minecraft is still in active development. It may yet (if it isn't already).

I'm quite sure that such a major change in architecture will be completely infeasible by now. The whole renderer would have to be rewritten from scratch, and given how the Minecraft codebase appears to be a complete mess architecture-wise, the changes would probably reverberate everywhere.

It's a real shame that when he decided to completely rewrite the Minecraft engine (which he finished but regretted), he didn't switch to using Modern OpenGL.

Your new startup designs websites but doesn't have a designer? I don't think you've thought this through.

There really isn't. Getting the thing to work is the bare minimum.