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Aaah, now we are one a level we can talk about it. Before it sounded like unconstructive ranting... and not more.

Originally Posted by gaichuke View Post
Look, normally I would not have commented anything about this, but since you submitted it to the Ovi Store I felt that it was open to criticism.
Yes, but please, I prefer constructive criticism. Otherwise I react already a little bit allergic...

Originally Posted by gaichuke View Post
In my eyes this turns a hobby project app to a "real" application, and I hate to see crappy applications in the Nokia Store.
Why should it transmute from a hobby project to a "real" application?
Also hobby projects are real applications. Some are good, some not. And because you are able to download it directly via the store on your device implies not it is a commercial application. Oh, no! I'm sure I will never be able to pay for the power bill for the juice my Computer needed during the development.
But a availability via the Store implies the application was at least able to get thru the Nokia store QA and will not damage your device in the first place. And in my opinion this is not unimportant.

Originally Posted by gaichuke View Post
1) Limited functionality

Only thing this app really has to offer is the random quotes. To make this app more usable and a real, viable option to the website itself there should be additionally at least Latest quotes and Browse quotes option with search.
You are always free to use the website. You are not forced to use the application. But you can use the app to read the random quotes in a comfortable way and to open later if you want the correlated quote directly at the browser to vote for it or to sent the link via instant messenger to a friend. At least this is the way I'm using it.

Originally Posted by gaichuke View Post
2) User interface

- Not compatible with the Harmattan UI guidelines.
- Button design, color choices and the way different elements are distributed in the UI are unbeliavable ugly.
Yes, I know. It is the same UI the N900 and MeeGo Tablet version had. At least I spent some time to move the menu from the top of the screen to the bottom. So you are able to use it like the most of the Harmattan applications, even if the color sheme is not the same.
It is a small fun application. And it works, even if it follows not the Harmattan style. The most games and in the end actually angry birds doesn't follow the Harmattan Design Guidelines.
Yes, I could have spent a day or two more to replace all selfcreated UI element with the Harmattan Components and do a lot of testing to search and fix a lot of new layout bugs. But time is currently a very, very limited resource for myself and as a stricken gimp user I like the paradigm "release early, release often" a lot more than "develop forever and release never".

Originally Posted by gaichuke View Post
There. Just my two cents if you are planning to develope this app further.
It is planned at some point if I'm in the mood. And perhaps I will adapt the layout elements, add support for more languages and perhaps a voting system. But even if it is aviable at the store it is still a hobby project I created in my spare time.

And my application is at least not created with some kind of building assistant to display a simple rss feed. It is totally hand made. And there are sadly a lot of simple rss feed viewer at the store. But at least I'm able to see the difference.

You mentioned slow animations and lagging scrolling in your first post. Have you still those problems or had you something running in the background while using the app?
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