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Comment author: cousin_it 05 January 2012 06:40:22PM *  2 points [-]

The cover art looks amateurish to me. Quirrell's cheek is a mess. Harry's head can't decide whether it's frontal or 3/4. Draco's arms look like they're painted on the book cover. Augh, too many mistakes to list. Here's what a good drawing looks like.

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Comment author: RJL20 06 January 2012 04:47:03AM 1 point [-]

I'm not a huge fan of the wizards-in-space illustration myself, but it's hardly fair to compare an amateurish original illustration to a technically competent copy of a movie poster. They're different beasts entirely.

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Comment author: betterthanwell 04 January 2012 02:15:46PM 3 points [-]

There is a bad link at External Links --> Book-style PDF

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Comment author: RJL20 06 January 2012 12:32:52AM 2 points [-]

I've commented out the link, because the PDF seems to have gone away and the copy of it I have only goes up to chapter 72. I've got email out to its creator asking if he'd like me to host it or transfer the project files so I can keep it up to date.

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 January 2012 11:58:54AM *  1 point [-]

It turns out to be a bit more complicated. The feed explicitly linked from the front page doesn't have clutter, but its links point to [1] etc. instead of [2] etc., which doesn't seem right.

On the other hand, if you enter the page URL in Google Reader, it somehow associated with it the feed located at [3], which had the clutter in question in the past, doesn't anymore, but Google Reader remembers... I'm guessing there must be some standard suffix starting from an URL that specifies a feed-by-default, which is checked first by a feed reader when it's given a non-feed URL, and it's absent for the front page; I'd guess it should be [4].

Edit: URLs don't format well in comments, so some are included in form of links.

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Comment author: RJL20 06 January 2012 12:28:12AM 1 point [-]

Ah, I see. That's an artifact of the way I set up the hosting, with hpmor.com being a mirror of www.elsewhere.org/rationality/. RSS autodiscovery works because I added tags for it, but the rss feed itself is currently a static file written whenever the update utility runs, so it can't know which URL a browser is requesting it as. I can fix that, though; give me 15 minutes.

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Comment author: jkaufman 05 January 2012 02:10:31PM 6 points [-]

As someone who has read and enjoyed the fic, I like the cover art. Unfortunately, I think it's probably off-putting to new readers. The biggest thing that jumps out at me is that it's fan made, and it's lower quality than the writing. It also doesn't make much sense if you've not read the fic: Why are they wearing green? Who is in the upper left? What's Draco holding? Why a book? Why are there stars, and is that a space probe? Why are they standing on a little earth?

I don't have a good idea about what to replace it with, though.

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Comment author: RJL20 06 January 2012 12:23:17AM 3 points [-]

I could just have it cycle through the crystal ball, wizards-in-space, and finger-snapping covers at random. I had switched to the space one because Eliezer seems to prefer it, and authors don't often get to have much of a say about the cover art.

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2012 09:18:35PM 6 points [-]

Nice indeed, I shall be sure to reference in next update.

Though for the cover art... http://zerinity.deviantart.com/art/Methods-of-Rationality-259116881 would be a good successor to the current crystal ball, I think.

Comment author: RJL20 05 January 2012 06:13:05AM 1 point [-]

Cover art has been switched out, and credited in the footer. Although now the web host appears to be having network issues. I should move this to my other host.

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 January 2012 02:00:19PM 7 points [-]

The font is too big by default. It's a standard function of browsers to change the font, I think by default a site should conform to normal expectations.

There's some clutter in the RSS feed, though the last entries are fine.

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Comment author: RJL20 05 January 2012 02:07:26AM 1 point [-]

What kind of clutter are you seeing in the RSS feed? It looks fine and validates to me, but if there's something else I should be doing, it's easy to modify.