Actually they didn't shutdown their servers, they gave a warning that they would be shutting down by the end of the year.

They shut down everything except redirects for existing URLs. You couldn't create new URLs, or view statistics of your URLs.

True. I guess I was one of the people thrown by their "effective immediately" notice that they had to clarify, and I hadn't seen the clarification. It was only a partial shutdown.

Still, I remain skeptical; this company hasn't earned much trust from me.

And how will you define popular blogs? By visits, by registered users?

If they are popular its popularity comes from good content, that should be shared here in HN. Sorry, but I disagree with your idea.

I disliked the logo and the main reason for that is because it is passing an idea that the users don't want to work, just want a job. To informal for a job site.

Well another point to mention is, how will you differentiate from the competition. In the job offers? If don't, would be interesting you find one differentiation.

A positive point is that the design is pretty cool! (except the logo)

This is a very cool service, but the search isn't so good as the idea. I tried to search some composed names and the queries returned a lot of results but none of them were significant at least in the first page :D

Basically I like to hack on money

http://www.getrichslowly.com http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com http://www.budgetpulse.com

but I will be starting to hack in internal designs also, because want to buy an apartment ;)

Very cool!

Just take good look in the design, the point that should be improved is the presentation, works on a landing page, improve you logo, the design of the page and it should help you to get new users.

The features are awesome, the idea is more than awesome :D, BUT if you reduce the number of clicks to execute the most common tasks it would be amazing also.

Congratz!!!

Even if it was better than GMail it would take at least a year or two to start replacing Gmail users, until there google will be workig harder adding new features to Gmail what will make users don't switch to Zimbra.

So Zimbra isn't Gmail's killer and won't be anytime soon.

Actually, the ads often help to keep the price of freemium not as high as was mentioned in the article.

Also the Micro-Payments are good for sellers because the customer have less control over what he is consuming, because it's a pain in the %$# check every time how is your consume.

So having less control over your consume the pop up comes faster :D

The point is that searchyc is kind of "hidden", a good percent of participants of HN don't even know their existence, maybe a redesign givin more focus to it, or enabling it use in the current design like adding it to the main page would be great. IMHO

Absolutely.

A standard emerged in websites many years back:

* logo in in the upper left (which is also a link to the home page)

* search is a text box in the upper right.

If you're not doing it this way, you're imposing an unnecessary cognitive load on your users.

I dunno, I find it to be alright. No need to expose everything to a beginning user of HN all at once. I liken it to a game mechanic that you slowly get more items and powers as you work your way through the game. That way, they learn the interface as they go.

It's kinda part of the fun, and if you stick around long enough, you 'discover' (aka level up) little things about HN that increases your skill level at using HN.

Looks like interesting, it can be improved (like add management, visualization, etc..) but their simplicity is making the difference.