Hello to all of my readers, a new updates is almost ready for you guys. Chances are most of you already see the new design, which is not radically different, but I think it looks better. The first thing you’ll notice is the bar on the left side which will be a staple of all my websites.
The biggest change I made was in the commenting though. It now looks much better, and it now looks the same on IE and FF. From now on commenting on Hack Your Day is only available to registered users. My reason is that this way it will be just that much easier to stop spam, and also, I want to create a nice community of my awesome readers.
Entering your email address is perfectly safe, I won’t sell it, lease it, eat it or steal it, all it does is enable me to contact you personally if you have a problem. In the future it will also allow me to contact the readers who do the most commenting so that I can maybe give them elevated privileges and so on. All in all, registering is super easy and from then on you only need to login once. If you feel like joining the Hack Your Day community, please register here. There will be all sorts of goodies later on!
I hope you all like the new design, I may be polishing it a bit still, but this one looks final too me. If you have any comments please share!
Anatoly's Thoughts
at 6:41 pm
The new design is nice, but logging in to comment is not a good idea. I have problems with spam comments myself so I understand why you are doing so. But why you allow only one way to log in? I am not using wordpress so I don’t know if it is possible to allow logins using OpenID (for example) or other similar means, but it would eliminate the need to create another account.
Daniel's Thoughts
at 9:08 pm
Hi Anatoly!
You are my first subscriber, wohoo! I totally agree with you, and you are getting about 2 hours ahead of me, Open ID will be implemented very soon
I know that there are huge upsides of using a sign-in system, although I am also prepared to loose some of my commentors due to this. I am aiming to create a community of people who communicate and not just read, but contribute to the site, and this seemed like a great way to start, outweighing some of the disadvantages.
I promise I will try to make creating an account super easy, open ID will definitely be an option very soon.
Thanks for registering!