I also liked the ajax signup. I was very afraid of the song being killed.
I have to say, I non-ironically LOVE Mixest!
Edit: Slightly irked that Play and Pause are text (a minor quibble, to be sure) — Just a guess: You guys searched for the Unicode play/pause/next icons and, having realized they don’t exist, gave up on that idea for now, right?
Feature request: Last.fm scrobbling. Incredible Pandora doesn’t have this. They aren’t really direct competitors in terms of the use-cases they focus on.
I discovered the play/pause hotkey (space — great choice, by the way — can’t believe Windows Media Player doesn’t support this!) by accident as I tabbed onto the "Register" button and attempted to trigger it with my spacebar.
We ask for very little information from users, and asking for an email to reset the pass felt like too much.* Thanks for bringing this up as we are probably going to change this and make it more secure.
Password masking, along with asking for a password confirmation, is what everyone expects. Any affected attempt at 'simplifying' that UI without a total transformation (like no accounts at all, not shit like openid) leads directly to anger and disillusionment when their plaintext password is staring them in the face.
Use <input type=password>. Use two of them when registering, and one when logging in. It's a basic affordance, don't fuck with it.
I've been favoriting tracks but it's not clear that it has any effect on what gets played. You're saving the tracks I fave, but then I can't do anything with them except delete them — which should absolutely not use the same heart icon you use for creation. I clicked it thinking it would play that track again, and POOF.
Three fields should be ok - username, pass, confirm pass. Better that than visible passwords. If users want to add their email and other info later, have an Account page for that.
I've just tried creating an account and logging in to folist, but I get the "You don't have a board" page, and then nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong? There doesn't seem anyone to ask, any links to click ...
Just tried it. I like how fast this is! It's a good alternative to dropbox for a quick image upload or something. It would be nice if it auto copied just the url.
I would also like it if the file stayed hosted longer than an hour. Say I want to email the link to a friend, but the friend doesn't check their email for 3 hours. If they click the link the file will no longer be there. Having the droplink icon in the top menu bar would be great, instead of having it in the dock.
if you hit submit, it tries to go to <name>.<extension> - it's like copying/pasting a url from safari into iChat or Adium. It shows a clickable name, not the full URL.
That being said, the text and icons are really hard to see. They blend into the white background too much.
*edit: The password is showing clear text. Why?