Ripost
8 posts on Ripost.
Ripost was an internet platform we founded in Kosovo, deliberately not a news portal. I got to work on what that distinction actually means in an interface: a front page that became an endless river of items labelled by format instead of section, a user journey that ran on a hashtag, a show called PunPun made for the internet rather than television, a BETA label we left on the logo on purpose, and an invitation to steal our work. Here are the articles about it.
- We Told Everyone to Steal Our Work September 8, 2015
Ripost invited readers to copy and repost everything we made, including the sentence saying so. What that position cost, and what it bought.
- SEO for a Site That Wants to Be Copied July 7, 2015
Ripost invited people to copy everything we published. Notes on canonicals, speed and structure when duplication is the strategy, not the problem.
- Ripostime: The River That Replaced the Front Page May 26, 2015
Below the featured mosaic, Ripost ran an endless river of items labelled by format, not section. On designing a homepage for scrolling.
- PunPun: A Show Made for the Internet, Not for TV April 14, 2015
Producing PunPun at Ripost meant unlearning television. On short formats, cutting for the phone, and losing the broadcast slot.
- The User Journey Was a Hashtag March 10, 2015
Ripost replaced the category menu with a row of live hashtags across every page. What that changed about how people moved through the site.
- Designed to Be Reposted January 27, 2015
If your platform's name is a verb, the interface has to let people do it. UX notes from Ripost on building for sharing and screenshots.
- Shipping Ripost in Beta and Leaving It There December 15, 2014
Ripost carried a BETA label next to the logo on purpose. Notes on running formats as experiments, and what the label bought us.
- Ripost Is Not a Portal November 18, 2014
We founded Ripost as an internet platform, not a news portal. What that distinction meant in practice for a newsroom of misfits.