You are kidding aren’t you?
So Alert Thingy has been released to the wild and anxious FriendFeed users who where waiting patiently; or not so patiently, for it to arrive can now play with it to their hearts content. While Frederic of The Last Podcast and Sarah from Sarah in Tampa are lukewarm to say the least in their assessment of the app TechCrunch in their usual lame review don’t say much at all.
Well I do and it is simply this - you have to be kidding me. But rather than getting overly verbose how about a screenshot of what it looks like on my desktop
Now I might be a cranky old fart whose eyes aren’t the best in the world but how do you possible expect me to use this for any length of time without straining my eyes any further than I am.
The fact that I have no control over either the text size or the opacity of the background make this attempt next to useless. It doesn’t matter that you guys are still working hard at making all the parts of the FriendFeed API work; which I will give you credit for, but when I can’t read what is on the screen without squinting hard enough to make my grandson start laughing his ass off this makes the 1.0 release a nice try but I’ll be waiting for the 1.1 thank you very much.
Note: my apologies to Sarah for misspelling her name - the error has has been fixed
Conversation Tags: FriendFeed, Alert Thingy