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This reads like a harsh criticism; arguments would be welcome as to why you feel this way



The site has eccentric paragraph/element spacing and uncontrolled use of white space.

Serif fonts are fashionable but a questionable choice for legibility. (HN is much more legible.)

The header image is unnecessarily huge.

There's a login box, but you won't spot it unless you're paying attention. Why would you want to log in anyway?

Overall, the design looks knocked-together in a hurry with no real understanding of either good layout or UX.

The app itself has poor layout spacing and - ironically - the colour choices and combinations are unusual and not what you would expect from an experienced UI designer.

To be clear, this isn't being picky for the sake of it. I would honestly be surprised if a majority of experienced UI professionals were enthusiastic about the current design of either the site or the app.


I don’t have time for argument war, but same thing is with coding/vim/emacs/everything other courses on youtube from people that just started to learn them.

If you’re learning and trying to learn others at the same time will you take responsibility for passing on bad knowledge and your own mistakes? It takes years to get solid grasp of professional wisdom and experience in specific field. Without it, we have people who think git is too hard...

If you want to learn, learn from the best. Don’t get me wrong, I know that many people advise to write such thing to make yourself recognizable, but don’t start from learning others. :)


>same thing is with coding/vim/emacs/everything other courses on youtube from people that just started to learn them.

Spot on! I think we need a concise name for this phenomenon of low-effort rookie-level tutorials from people who barely have learnt the subject themselves.

How should we call it? Tutorial-spam? Tutorial farming? Amateutoring?


They say that the best way to learn something is to teach it, but it doesn't follow that the experience will be optimal for your students. Teaching well is quite hard.




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