So I think I like Gooruze… Just not that much. I can tell it has some serious potential (and to validate my blog feed Wingnut.gooruze.com ) They are new and will be interesting to see where they go but if they don’t change some stuff up soon - I’m done with it.
The site navigation needs work. It’s rather unintuitive and takes too long to get anywhere. Overall the design looks like someone took a basic Joomla template and then ate some yellow crayons and then pooped all over it. Then for good measure (and maybe laughs) they made the default link text bright yellow so you have to squint from the glare and the rest so small you have to press your nose against it to see what news articles there are and what other things are going on.
Then just to be greedy (and piss me off and make me not want to go there) they put Google ads right at the top without even trying to make it look like it goes with the site design or be non-annoying. It’s supposed to be a site for online marketers IE the WEB SAVVY who the hell is going to click on these ads anyway? I suppose you get something for views… but come on. If you’re going to have money links at least make them better than shit Google Ads. Sell books about online marketing or something else - that would at least be useful.
It seems to be growing really fast but thanks to some major design flaws and annoying bits I fear it will burn out pretty quickly. If they change some stuff around it could be great
It has the most complex social media navigation I have ever seen - and as of yet I haven’t looked at any of the news articles because it’s too hard to tell what news there is/if it’s good.
The navigation is so bad it actually makes me angry trying to use it. They need to take a look at Sphinn or you know… any good social media site where you can actually tell what content is there and what is hot/new etc…
I have found the Q&A a bit helpful and actually would go to the site just for this. Makes for a great forum.
I’m far too addicted to Social Media these days and this is just one more thing that I’m going to be checking a couple times a day. Provided they change up the design.
What do you all think?