Thank you for creating this. I have been thinking of making one for years because all the Arabic alphabet apps in the app store are really bad/low quality. Now I have no reason to do that :) I let my 4 year old take play with it and here is some feedback from her and from me observing her use it:
* The buttons on the start screen are too close. My daughter kept touching the wrong button and ending up in the browser in your cafe press store
* The cafe press store. I hope you are planning on integrating it in your app. It really disrupts the experience when you leave the app and open the browser
* When you start reviewing the alphabet, my daughter had a hard time with the arrows. Her instinct was to swipe, which didn't work
* The menu in the top right hand corner is also easy to touch by mistake and end up interrupting the experience
Hope this feedback is helpful to you and congratulation on an excellent app!
ok, good point. However, based on my experience with HN, I bet the second segment of people you describe are under represented here. I generally see swagger discouraged around here so a strategy like this is not effective, even if it made the frontpage.
Indeed, all my tweeps from Syria have gone silent. Phone lines seem to be down too. Calling Syria gives me "all circuits are busy" message. This is not a good sign.
Anti-Semitism is a term that, in the western culture, is used to mean anti-jewish. When you treat it literally, you are ignoring a long and established history associated with it. See this for much more articulate explanation than mine:
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anti-Semitism is not the optimal term for anti-Jewish sentiment, among other things because there are other Semites than Jews, but it is the one we have, and comes with a long history and a well-established meaning. Rather than critiquing the term or coining a neologism to substitute for it, speakers of English should simply understand the term's history and commonly accepted definition and use it accordingly.
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I think your are on to something. Report how many people saved a recipe (and unsaved it?), how many printed it and how many views it received.
Additionally, I think the mentioned websites ignore an important fact about recipes: they are not static. Most recipes have variations in technique or ingredients. Many cooks, as you stated, substitute ingredients that subtly, or not so subtly, change a recipe. If a mechanism exists to capture those variations (wiki style, maybe?), those people might have an incentive to come back and share their experience rather than their impressions.
But aren't you punishing your target audience by making them pay money, no matter the amount, so you can "weed out the chaff?" If that is their motivation, I don't like it.
Because according to Andrew, they make $1 billion in sales. The site is making a lot of money with the existing design. I can see why they don't want to fix what is not broken.