mattfel1 / geoscents Goto Github PK

Im using the World Capital category to learn all the capitals, but its very annoying to have Minor capitals in China, India, etc all the time. It would be nice if you could have only the 195 major capitals of each country

• Al Ḩillah, Saudi Arabia on investigation isnt a city as the Simplemaps database claims (nothing in SA when searched, coords dont fit anything, same population in database as actual Iraq city)
• There is no Al Ḩillah, Saudi Arabia entry in asiacities.js - either its been deleted and not updated in plots or something else

As the title goes, https://geoscents.net needs a serious, major UI/UX revamp.

I must say this is a very great project, or even a potential successor to the defunct Geosense site. Yes, it has a lot of potential, however currently lacks proper UI/UX design, SEO, and marketing. If you take a good look at it, it feels like an old 2000s website still running on Java, which is the nicest thing I think we can compare the design to. Honestly, I am pretty damn surprised that no one has ever opened an issue or pull request regarding this. We need to remove the spinning globe. We need to change the font. We need to lowercase many text. We need to get rid of many buttons. We need to establish a concrete color palette. We need to redesign the whole layout of every page. We need a revamp.

When clients complain about an interface as anything but intuitive, I think we should fix the problem not by adding arrows and UX instructions (which only makes matters worse), but by taking a serious look at our own design. If you are doing this project as anything but a "project for fun" (though even in that case, think about Linux), I think it's time everyone bring a major update to the website. Here are my proposals:

1. 👥 Recruit a (small) team of UI/UX designers (I'd be happy to volunteer). We do not have to find the good people right away, but we will gradually spread the word (e.g. on Reddit or Medium). Along the way, there will be more people from various professions (e.g. coders, writers, marketers) who might be interested in joining the team. Seriously, you've been working alone, writing millions of lines of code for this project. That's quite a dedication. But you need some people to help you out.
2. 💬 Start a Discord development server, or just a Discord server (meaning it opens to fans), so we can have a decent space for discussions and remote working. Just...anything but mailing lists, goddamn it.
3. 📝 Layout a concrete track for the next stage of development for this project. We need to code, to design, to spread the word (wow, you don't even add GitHub tags so people can find this project easier?), to do a lot of advertising and collecting money.

I shall state again that this could thrive as the new geography game, but more efforts and more people are needed. Essentially, we need to establish a community. You've been working alone too hard. You need to take another route, as we shall do the same with the approach to the website's UX.

Thank you for your serious consideration. If it was not serious, take a Seinfeld-free 30-minute break and kindly read it again. 👍