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The fact that you’re reading this means we have launched and months of work has finally paid off. We launched seconds ago. I would like to firstly give an astronomical thank you to Max, Pascal and Ryan for their work and putting up with me and my regime.
The project has been under development for over 5 months, which we know is a pretty damn long time for what is effectively a simple site. It’s taken so long because of my project management, but mainly because we’re all students and/or have jobs. Pascal was juggling full-time employment, with me and Max being full-time students.
So, you’re probably thinking why does this site even have a blog, or why we’re even making an effort. The answer is simple, it doesn’t matter how simple or complicated the site is, how big the team or company is, communicating with users is an essential part of the user experience and it’s something so many people and companies don’t even think about or do wrong. Anyway, this isn’t a lesson in social media.
For that reason we decided to launch this blog for people to give us their opinions, tell us what we’re doing wrong, what they don’t like, or even if they hate the site and think it’s useless (which we understand may be a lot of people), but it’s that communication and transparency I want to achieve.
In a few weeks or months when we have a decent amount of moans, we’ll start posting statistics on moanblog on what is being moaned about and hopefully try and break stuff down which will be fairly interesting to see how that all works out.
We also have an IRC channel for those of you who are familiar with IRC and/or prefer a real-time conversation.
So having said that, you are all more than welcome to join us in the chatroom and obviously here and I hope you all do.
Thank you if you’ve reached this far in the post. If you have any questions, please contact me at my email which is dotted all around the site.
Why don’t you make CMS widgets that bring up random moans? Maybe with a censoring option
That’s a pretty sweet idea James. Thanks for replying.
The problem I see with that is who is going to want to actually put a little widget on their site and display moans? If there turns out to be some interest in it then it might be worth looking into.
I now <3 you guys. I’m however surprised that Rich isn’t involved with this by the amount of moaning he does!
I want to crowdsource moaning. I want to moan anonymously or not, be able to comment on moans and rate moans. I think this project could benefit from deeper layers of interaction. Twitter integration perhaps.. by swiping twwets with #moanlog in them.
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