I finished my web app www.listeninghall.com Ya ya, it's kinda like turntable.fm, but with Youtube. Wasn't the easiest thing for me to build, but I learned a lot. Would love some feedback. |
I finished my web app www.listeninghall.com Ya ya, it's kinda like turntable.fm, but with Youtube. Wasn't the easiest thing for me to build, but I learned a lot. Would love some feedback. |
Signed up then landed on the main screen, but wasn't instantly sure what to do there. Then I clicked the +, searched, and added a couple of videos that immediately started playing, but they were obscured by the "Add Videos" window, and no "Close" or "Hide" link anywhere. Clicking off to the side hid the window.
At that point, it was me watching a queue of youtube videos alone. I could share the room, but there was no interaction possible with the other client I had in the room.
Also, the second client I had started the video from 0:00 vs where I was at. While it would probably be too complex to make it exactly sync'd, starting a newly joined user at approximately the same place in the currently playing song as the others would help.
There was no way to change the size of the video. Since there was no social interaction, I thought I'd just watch my queue full screen, but that wasn't possible.
Keep at it!
Obviously you're polishing it, but I'll give some feedback and hope it helps you:
1) Landing page, the enter key event isn't submitting the login form, right?
2) Time stamp on chat
3) Close button on the search dialog
4) I like cursor: pointer;cursor: hand; on my action buttons
5) Maximize video option?
6) Vote up/down by user to sort queue?
I love the [# of un-viewed messages] in title bar.
You definitely have to use another computer for it to work. Browsers on the same computer isn't working--which it shouldn't anyway. Perhaps you could just detect if it's the same computer and put up an alert ("hey, you're a phoney! you're on the same computer!") then you won't waste a lot of resources to process that request.
The music synched on my 2 computer. Very cool. Please keep up the good work.
-V.
1-5) Yea, lot of little stuff I'm gonna need to handle.
6) Since there can be many people in the room, skipping, rearranging, repeating, looping, all of these things are going to have to be voted on.
Lastly, I think it may well be a failure on my part, but the title bar # indicates messages received while you are tabbed away from the window. I detected this by checking to see if the chat input box was in focus (from my understanding that's how gtalk does it). It's clunky, and I should probably figure out a better way to do this.
Thank you for your feedback :)
Also, I've made the Javascript code available on my github (Since I need to find a job): https://github.com/ahaque/lh
Firefox 3.6 shows no such thing.