I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better. Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup! This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.
If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit
*edit - I just upgrade everyone who made an account to Social. This key was supposed to give everyone this upgrade when you made an account...My Bad. The Social account lets you comment and like post as well as select favorite friends or hide friends.
In your Privacy Policy, you state that "We[you] only collect user analytics data. " For being more open with data, could you create some page within your application to report what bits of data you are storing about me?
I plan on updating both the privacy policy and the terms of service. I modeled them off of Digg's but I am no lawyer, I am a hacker :).
From Wikipedia:
The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters:
Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z)
Digits 0 to 9
Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is
not the first or last character, and provided also that
it does not appear two or more times consecutively
(e.g. John..Doe@example.com).http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search
My guess is the target demographic is younger women or just women in general. Not to sound sexist but in my experience women browse Facebook photos in a much higher degree than males.
You have done a great job with the rest, navigation, and image browsing. There were a few glitches, the user info box and posts in the feed with images in them could use some finish.
All in all, great job and I think I understand where you're going with this!
Using Chrome on a Mac though, nothing happens when I click on images from my feed. I'd expect that to at least preview a larger version, or maybe take me to the post itself.
The photos in the feed do not open larger at this point. Still trying to work the black magic that is the Facebook API. The cursor pointer is some dev code that made it through to production be accident, whoops!
Is it not a one-to-one relationship between Portrit and FB account?
The UI for 'likes' is confusing. The icon seemed very foreign, and the whole idea of putting profile pictures of people who have liked the post on the right isn't intuitive either.
I agree that the like icon could use some work. The idea behind showing profile pictures of likes instead of names is one of the main ideas of Portrit. We are trying to limit the amount of text and promote discovery that may not have happened if the name was shown. We will look into making this action more intuitive.
Thanks for the feedback.