Quotelet: better than Bash.org
Mackey: don't think I've seen this one
Mackey: maybe i did actually
Mackey: but its been so long
Adam: we're officialy geeks when we can gauge memories based on internet memes
Adam: OH WOW, MAN. I HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU SINCE "GONADS AND STRIFE"
Adam: MAN….REMEMBER THAT GREAT PARTY WE HAD A FEW WEEKS AFTER "I CAN HAS CHEEZEBRGR NOW"?Quotelet.com
That, friends, is a quote for Quotelet. Quotelet is a community for sharing funny quotes that come up in conversations, much like Bash.org, except Quotelet is actually well designed, has nice features, and plays well with the Interwebs. For example, when I saw that I like that quote very muchly, I was able to copy & paste some code to paste it here on my website, which is exactly what any site should let you do.
So here's the skinny: you can browse the quotes on the site, by latest, random or highest rated (all time / past month / past week). You can search, too, if you actually have some criteria you want to apply to your quote exploration. You can subscribe via RSS if visiting websites isn't your thing. And if you want to add quotes, you can get an account and make it happen.
When you login, you've got moar features: favorites, friends, quotes, messages, etc. That's checks down the list on everything a site like this should have. And the add interface is rock solid. Take a gander:
Yep, everything looks good here.
I'm about to get all objective up in here
Now, I can't review a site without giving my constructive criticism, so enough with the positive stuff. This site is great, but I get to wondering… where's the OSX widget/Vista gadget/Linux thing that let's me add quotes from my desktop? Where can I send SMS messages from my phone to add a quote? Where's the iPhone interface? I mean, it's the 21st century, and browsing websites from your web browser is so… so… 1998.
No, really, besides that, I do have one thing to say. Say I'm on the site and I'm browsing quotes. I'm obviously bored, or avoiding work, and I'm looking for laughs. There's all this stuff on the page; navigation left, ads right, quotes down the middle. Each quote has big buttons as well as links to comment and see the people involved. There's a lot I can do.
But I'm on this page for the quotes. The quotes! It's Quotelet.com. Why, oh why then, do the quotes get the least emphasis on the entire page? I mean, I can see them just fine, but I don't feel like they get the emphasis they deserve! Compare this to the un-design of Bash.org; you have to admit, on Bash, quotes are the biggest things to grab your attention on the page. I say, make the quotes big! Give the text some appeal! And why should quotes have scrollbars when they are too long? The page should flow, so that as I scroll, I don't have to scroll on individual quotes to be able to read them.
Don't get me wrong, the design is good now, but I definitely think that the least attention has been given to the most important part of the site.
And that's all the criticism I have.
So, final verdict?
If you are the kind of person who would do what I tell you to, join Quotelet and start submitting the funny things your friends say. I need more stuff to read when I'm bored 
so this is bash.org gone web 2.0 then? It looks (from this, ebaum's world, and a couple other places) like the rest of the internet is slowly starting to catch up to the Valley.
The horror.
it has one flaw, which gives me the shivers: When you use the dialog form to present a conversation, you don't need quotes around each line…
I like it, but the cut and paste code looks too much like a modern banner ad. I skimmed past it on the first read.
The top quote on bash has had 33000 ups, the top quote on quotelet has 14 at the time of my posting. Also they're are not nearly as funny. Also it doesn't work as well on my phone. Also bash doesn't have ads. Also bash doesn't make you get a login to vote.
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p>Joel is right on all points, and bash.org ( and qdb.us ) work GREAT on my blackberry. too bad they dont update the quotes often enough ;4a7d3d609129a9296bf7ac0608c2097