Bitmob for the Public?

I never liked blog formats, especially for a professional website. I just don't like how it feels like it was made by some random guy, it has that stigma of a blog.

One of the best things about Bitmob is that it's a website where the community writes the content. But I am disappointed it doesn't look like a big website. It just looks like a blog with multiple writers.

So here's a very very quick, cheap, inaccurate mock-up of what I had in my mind. It's more upfront on content, not just the latest articles, but everything as a whole.

Instead of just choosing which articles to go to the front page, they will be chosen by giving them a headline at the front page. The staff articles and the user articles are separate but equal, you know which one is which, but they aren't shoved to a corner.

And to work as a big website with a lot of viewers, the tabs allow users to search for the content made accross the history of Bitmob without having to click previous posts repeatedly or have use the search engine to find an article they really wanted to see.

What's more, if you are a wrtier, you can view the original blog style of the original Bitmob on your Profile, so it's more of a blog atmosphere if you work better that way. Kinda like the opposite side of the stage curtain.

I love Bitmob as it is now, but I just felt like taking this out of my chest, and I can do that because this is Bitmob! What do you guys think?

Comments (4)

I think it's a good idea, and not just because my name is immortalized in a screencap.
Suriel Vazquez , December 25, 2009
I think this is a great idea! Who knows, maybe they'll be doing something like this with the new design.
Brian Shirk , December 25, 2009
I do recall the staff saying they have some surprises for us in the coming year. Hopefully they will take your ideas to heart since they seem to be good ideas.

But who knows, the staff might already have something better planned.
David Matos , December 25, 2009
Neat idea, thanks! Our near-future plans do not include a visual redesign. We're focused on fixing the blog-editor problem and including a few new functional features. But we definitely appreciate your feedback on this. Good points and good suggestions. We're definitely keeping this in mind for the after-near-future.
Dan Hsu , December 29, 2009

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