Comments on: Communities – start simple, don’t over-design http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2009/04/01/communities-start-simple-dont-over-design/ Questions and observations from Nic Price. Curious about how things work and what it's like to use them. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catherine Harris http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2009/04/01/communities-start-simple-dont-over-design/#comment-238 Catherine Harris Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:13:03 +0000 http://www.beatnic.co.uk/?p=737#comment-238 A new community-based online initiative has just been launched in SE22 and neighbouring areas...streetbank.com. I think you might like it - a combination of freecycle and facebook.....it's already working to bring communities together in Hammersmith and Fulham - and hopefully will soon take off in the south too... watch this space...! A new community-based online initiative has just been launched in SE22 and neighbouring areas…streetbank.com. I think you might like it – a combination of freecycle and facebook…..it’s already working to bring communities together in Hammersmith and Fulham – and hopefully will soon take off in the south too… watch this space…!

]]> By: Greg http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2009/04/01/communities-start-simple-dont-over-design/#comment-237 Greg Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:31:34 +0000 http://www.beatnic.co.uk/?p=737#comment-237 I would second this. I worked on a very popular, high-profile NASCAR website in the US. We started with very sparse features. Nice profiles and a forum and not much else. The community loved it and Mashable praised us for not getting carried away with features. Said it was brave and interesting to make a forum-based social networking site, or something like that. (In reality we were on a legacy platform we couldn't develop with quickly enough, but they weren't to know!) I would second this. I worked on a very popular, high-profile NASCAR website in the US. We started with very sparse features. Nice profiles and a forum and not much else. The community loved it and Mashable praised us for not getting carried away with features. Said it was brave and interesting to make a forum-based social networking site, or something like that.

(In reality we were on a legacy platform we couldn’t develop with quickly enough, but they weren’t to know!)

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