michieldewit wrote:KNTRO wrote:
1. Could you make the URL just start.me available, instead of
http://www.start.me? As you can imagine, this is not a priority, just a really minor, silly suggestion.
I'm afraid that is not possible. We currently use Heroku for our hosting, which means there is no fixed IP-address for our service. To be able to use start.me, we would have to set an A-record with an IP-address. That's not possible. Why would you prefer start.me, btw?
Ha! It doesn't matter actually. But:
1. Your service is named
start.me. I would enter just
start.me at the web browser's URL bar and hope that be the correct URL. But it's not — It redirects to
http://www.start.me.
Feels silly.
2. IMHO
www. is deprecated, outdated, expired — it's like if we're in the 90s yet.
3. When speaking about URLs, I think the shortest, the better today, especially when you people got a
.me domain, which I think it's pretty cool. So, on one hand you have a ninety
www. and on the other hand you have a nowadays
.me. Weird, isn't it?
But just speakin' my mind, nothing really necessary. Most URLs still use
www. today. What a shame!
michieldewit wrote:KNTRO wrote:
2. Another minor suggestion, but I really miss this one: colors for widgets!
Here's how they look in Netvibes, for instance. It's not an urgent request, of course, but you can't deny it looks so good!
Colors and other customizations are on our list. However, we do value the general looks of start.me, so one of our priorities is to make sure the app will look beautiful. Colors may make the whole thing look a little tacky. As a matter of fact, we are working on a major design overhaul. We would value your opinion a lot. Why not join our beta?
Join your beta, you said? Sure!
I'd love to do so! But first let me finish latest steps about the start.me's
es-AR locale. I'm gonna send you a PM next week or so.
michieldewit wrote:KNTRO wrote:
3. This is indeed kinda urgent request, I really, really miss this feature in start.me: An embedded audio player for podcast‼
Netvibes uses a Flash based player for podcast, I think.
Here's the podcast I'm listening to right now — works like a charm!
Trust me: it would be
TOTALLY AWESOME if you could add a HTML5 player instead!
Have you tried embedding a player with out Embed widget? Flash content cannot be embedded at the moment. So perhaps we would have to add support for flash to make it work. Can you give me an example of the flash component you would like to use?
No, I haven't. But that would mean a 2step task actually for each podcast I would like to add. I should first add an embedded player and then add the podcast itself.
Not very convenient, IMO. Please, note that in Netvibes I only have to add the webfeed podcast's URL, it's just like adding any other feed. There's no need to add a player, since it's part of Netvibes itself.
I actually
do not want to use any Flash component. The less Flash we use, the better. Netvibes has that Flash based built in audio player for podcasts. I love that feature since it's a webfeed podcast, so whenever there's new episodes, I can listen to them in situ:
1. Not having to use/open an external player.
2. Not just while switching web browser's tabs,
3. But even when switching Netvibes' tabs in the same dashboard! So damn cool!
Well, I would really love to have such built in audio player in start.me too, but HTML5 based instead.
michieldewit wrote:KNTRO wrote:
By the way, does start.me have a custom forum or a Get Satisfaction / UserVoice account in order to submit feedback or report bugs? IDK if it's OK to use Pale Moon forums to do it.
We use Zendesk for that. The forum feature is not currently advertized, but feel free to send us feedback through support.start.me (or the linked email address
support@start.me).
Thanks! I'll give a shot!
Best!