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43 points by zefi · 29 comments

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rudolf0

Looks quite cool and useful. I think a simple and clear demo page (for unregistered users) link near the top would also be nice, to see exactly what interface users are getting.

edit: And 2 seconds after posting that, I just realized you can click the bottom right to achieve that. I'm not sure if that's a UI flaw or me just being blind/too busy with work. I scrolled down pretty quickly and the white-background-on-white-background caused my eyes to glaze over it, I think. Maybe a slight background tint for the box would make it stand out a bit more.

  • pea

    Hey,

    Yeah I'm going to make some changes to make it more visible (I agree white on white isn't immediately obvious :) ). Thanks for your feedback.

cr3ative

Heh - I used it to submit a bug! It looks like your body font is Open Sans, but that's not a default system font for me, and so it falls back to serif. You might want a webfont or to check the webfonts are loading correctly.

Nice system - it was a pleasure to submit a bug through it!

  • pea

    Woo! Thanks, I just pushed a fix which should sort that out. Thanks for your feedback. Failed web fonts begone :)

Urgo

About to launch some new features on my site (Social Blade) and was going to open it up to allow some of our power users to beta test it this weekend. Looks like your tool may help them report bugs so giving it a shot. Thanks :)

  • pea

    Awesome! I've pinged you an email, so reach out whenever if I can help in any way.

treystout

Very cool idea. Would be nice if there was some way to see a summary. Maybe it gets like a little mini-dashboard somewhere on the screen, and then I can click it to hide/show all notes, edit existing ones, or maybe even see all notes across pages on the domain.

  • zefiOP

    Thanks for the comment. Did you have a chance to see how the dashboard of screenshots works at the moment? Is this what you're commenting on?

sdrothrock

Do you have example screenshots? How are user comments displayed on it? It seems like it might be difficult to see what users are talking about/frustrating for them to make it so that the text box doesn't cover what they want to describe.

  • pea

    This is a really good point -- thanks. A few people have mentioned this. We're working on a demo dashboard so you can see what it looks like. Cheers for your feedback.

iqonik

Sorry but this needs touch support, right now it displays well on my iPhone but I cannot 'click' anything. Once you support mobile I will use it in my projects to see how it goes.

  • pea

    Hey, I completely agree that support for mobile is currently lack-lustre. We will a) try and make this more evident on the home page, and b) disable on mobile for the timebeing if the experience is below par. Tomorrow we're going to start hacking something together to make it better.

    Would love to hear your input, so feel free to ping me on leo@kivo.com.

pea

Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of TalkToUsers. If you've got any questions, just hit us up here or ping me at leo@kivo.com!

  • goorpyguy

    You have a "debugger;" call in addToFirebase that's making my Firebug angry. I can't seem to make the script panel ignore this line, even with a conditional 1==0 breakpoint.

    Would you be able to take the "debugger" calls out of the production code?

    edit: After some more testing, in Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.

    • goorpyguy

      After some more testing, in Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.

    • goorpyguy

      In Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.

    • pea

      Hi mate, sorry that was an error on my part. I've removed them and it should be good now. Cheers.

      • goorpyguy

        HN was causing problems for me earlier (as seen by by duplicate replies above that I eventually put in as an edit...) but I wanted to say thanks.

        Also I wanted to make two suggestions if you're looking for features to build: 1) Highlight "important" annotations in the console in some way. 2) Allow option for submitted notes/screenshots to be forwarded via email both as archive and for searchability etc.

        Thanks for sharing!

    • goorpyguy

      In Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.

    • goorpyguy

      In Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.

  • tpg

    This seems like a useful service, but I've been burned too many times to start using a service before I know what the pricing will look like. No pricing == no evaluation for me, as a general rule. General assurances that it'll be reasonable/flexible haven't panned out in the past.

    • pea

      Thanks for this. We'll hash something out in the next couple of days. If you want me to follow up, ping me at leo@kivo.com and I'll reach out to you with some more definite info.

samteeeee

The "I've finished" button didnt work for me, after I cancelled the addition of a comment. Using Chrome on Windows 7.

  • zefiOP

    Thanks for the heads up. The button is only active after you've successfully added a comment - as we presume you haven't finished if you haven't made one. cheers!

Kiro

Nice! How does the screenshot thing work?

Kiro

Very nice. How does the screenshot thing work?

Kiro

Nice! How does the screenshot thing work?

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