Hey Makr.io, don't let the haters get you down.

Hey Makr.io, don't let the haters get you down. (jiggity.tumblr.com)

30 points by jiggity 13 years ago | 11 comments

Dude, I am so glad you wrote this.

Makr.io team is fantastic; they are a fun bunch of hardworking guys and gals. I hope they aren't too bummed out by the haters. Makr itself is a f-ing cool product. I am not just drinking koolaid here either. I am the last guy to care about memes. LOL cats make me gag sometimes (sorry Ben Huh :).

Perhaps that's the reason why so many people are hating. They are thinking of Makrio is a meme generator, but it's not. It's a cool tool for self-expression, a way to learn something new about your friends. The content on Makrio isn't about the image, it's about the content that you could associate with it. If you feel like being silly, you can just slap silly text on stupid images, but if you want to be interesting, sarcastic, or to be in whatever mood you're in that day, then you got to think of something interesting to post and to say. What a great way of self-expression!

I really wish Makrio team best of luck and hope they ignored the haters. You guys rock!

d3ad1ysp0rk 13 years ago | |

Funny, because "Makr.io is a new kind of meme generator." is their tagline.

d3ad1ysp0rk 13 years ago |

I despise the attitude that anyone who disagrees with an idea is a "hater". I also think "If all you see is a lame pinterest / canv.as / quickmeme clone, then by definition, you see nothing more than the average person." is pretentious and implies that the average person is never correct. I see nothing impressive in Makr.io.

jiggity 13 years ago | |

Yes, that's the idea. If we choose to be lax and rely solely on our "intuition", all we will see are fragments of pieces that look familiar. We can't help but to compare these components to contemporary examples.

When World of Warcraft first came out, there was so much outcry because it was simply "Everquest dumbed down". Players had taken the component that looked familiar in WoW - the grind - and compared it unfavorably simply because that was the only available metric. In reality, the focus of the design was placed elsewhere entirely and the game itself caused a paradigm shift for grinding to be regarded as negative.

For us as intelligent thinkers to willfully ignore this fundamental problem of introducing something new with familiar components and dive down into a circle of hate would constitute being a hater.

duked 13 years ago | | |

ok fair enough but that still doesn't explain why Makr is different than the 4chan moot canvas ....

How about you try with Makr as example with details instead of WoW

kirillzubovsky 13 years ago | |

1. By all means, you don't have to be ecstatic about Makrio. It's not for everyone, much like many other things on the internet. If all you have to say is that "meh, it's not for me", that's perfectly okay. However, there are a lot of comments that bash the application for no particular reason, and those folks are just "haters".

2. Don't dismiss it outright. Get a few of your friends to remix a few images together and see if it growth on you. If it doesn't, no problem, but there is a chance your friends will love it. I started using it with my girlfriend and now we sometimes compete on who could remix an image with a more clever title. It's really fun!

jgrahamc 13 years ago |

It would be nice if this blog post, or makr.io articulated what it is that makes makr.io different and special. For example, the blog post says "Take a deep dive into their interaction mechanics". If that's the secret sauce that makes makr.io special then how about hearing a description of that?

jiggity 13 years ago | |

I think the founders should make this page their front page: https://makr.io/latest

It's like a live discussion that's going on through pictures. Because of the fact that there is only one new image in focus at a time, there's an active flow that you know everybody else on the site is looking at synchronously.

When you submit a new image and caption combination, you know that 100+ or however many people currently on makr.io will see it immediately. That gives you pretty good odds that you'll get hearts or comments based on what you made. The instant rush you get when one of your creative babies hits it big is incredible.

tylermenezes 13 years ago |

Thank you for writing this! Calling them a pinterest clone because the site looks a little similar is absurd! The only similarity I can possibly see is to Canvas, and even then, it's very new.