Andre nettsteder som det er aktuelt å sammenligne seg med:

Deviantart.com
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- Visual (Good use of small "teasers" also for texts")
- Short access time to the latest posts (It take to many mouseclicks on todays UO)
- Good structure on the left side of the screen (It takes to much time on todays UO to get to the right place with cliking and scrolling)
- This site has a "answer-in-the-answer" of threads, which makes it easier to follow threads under topics.
- The profil page is visual and give the user a bloggish way of introducing herself.

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- Too many categories
- Commercials
- Too much information in some screens
- A bit unstable in many ways (for instance difficult to upload picture)

Diktkammeret: (http://debatt.dagbladet.no/diktkammeret/debatt/discussion.html?board_id=1)
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- Old fashioned layout from the 90-s or 80-s
- Difficult to differ between comments, postings and comments

writing.com
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- I liked the facebook-link on the front-page
- Many ways of searching and sorting
- Awards and openness about who gives most reviews
- Contests
 
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- Too much information
- Too many commercials
- The search results are not presented in an okay way

http://www.digte.dk
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- easy and uncomplicated
- easy finding users

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- difficult to find poems
- No good threading mechanisms
- Old-fashioned layout
- No way of finding different types of text

http://www.underoverflaten.no
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- Too many "mouseclicks" to get to where you want
Example: I want to write "Automatskrifttekst".
1. Log in
2. Click1 on "Skriveverksted"
3. Click2 on scrollbar on the right side too scroll down to "Poetiske utfordringer"
3. Click3 on "Poetiske Utfordringer"
4. Click4 on "44" (the lastest posting)
5. Click5 on scrollbar on the right side too scroll down to the latest posting in "Poetiske utfordringer"

- Too little instant and flashy graphics on the frontpage
- the big picture on "all" pages should be removed
- bits of texts shoul be visual on the front page or when someone moves the mousepointer over the last posting

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- I think we hace the right amount of forums (Deviantart and writing.com has to much, digte.dk and Diktkammeret has to few)

Possible layout-solutions:
It would be nice to make a visual metaphoric layout,
a cool front-page without all those dull hierarchical menus.
- Water as a design motive (drops and fish??, this may be a bit to eccentric)
- House with rooms and doors to enter) One room for each main category
- Library layout (whatever that means)

It is very important that the layout is fast and don't slow down the user in any way.