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The Stories You Cannot Tell
I knew exactly what I was going to get with The Stories You Cannot
Tell. My first thought was that this was going to be a site similar
to cubichell and other places where people come and post stories of
their life. The only difference is that these stories would be the
ones you shouldn't be re-telling or would be telling in a normal
situation.
When the site first loaded I was greeted with huge text. This could
be due the fact that I am on a mac, and sure enough when I hoped over
to firefox it was a bit better. I was still a bit put off by the huge
font from the mac and decided best to shrink the font down as much as
possible.
The design of the site is a standard 3 column layout with the main
area being in the center. Along the left hand side is a FAQ, then a
bunch of links to other sites most of which will give the owner some
money. The right hand column is a little better with links to all the
posts, most popular and then some other sites the author likes. At
the bottom of the site are even more links for products.
The posts range in topics by various authors. Some are about previous
lovers, others about their kids, and others about work. I shouldn't
go into detail because these are "The Stories You Cannot Tell" anyone.
Some kept me entertained, but most were not enjoyable at all. I
recently saw the movie Hostel and that movie disturbed me. You had to
sit there and take in what was being presented and that was how I felt
with this site.
While the owner of the site makes every effort to make sure the
stories are the focus of the site, I cannot help but notice how many
different links to 3rd party products there are. Additionally it is
quiet clear that there are several authors and not just the owner who
post to this site, and yet I get a feeling from the owner that he is
taking credit for all of this. Was the site readable? Yes. Will I
go back? Probably not. Should you check it out? Maybe. This site
while having a definite niche, did not impress me the way that it
could.
This site was reviewed on 2006-03-07 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Adult category.
Brent felt that The Stories You Cannot Tell deserved a rating of 3.5.
Online confession sites are not new, grouphug.us is one of the more popular examples, however the fact that "The Stories You Cannot Tell" is a more verbose blog format is refreshing. It allows the people who submit their stories anonymously to stretch out and really tell the story properly.
The idea is sound, the users are there, and the stories are typically magnetic no matter how badly they are usually written so its really quite annoying to see the font size at 50 or whatever it is, which makes me feel like I'm reading a kids book and means I have to scroll constantly. The color scheme isn't terrible, but the overall design leaves something to be desired. I don't think it would take much, just a better attempt at the CSS, a nicer font in a much much smaller size. At least it would allow for longer stories too.
I had a chuckle after reading about one guy getting an "under-the-table" hand job from his girlfriends step mother which was immediately followed by an advertisement for "Sweet MILF Action". Very tactful. The ads divide every story and are also in this incredibly huge font.
Then I realized that maybe the site is not showing up right in my browser, so I fired up IE and sure enough the font is normal, but the entire site is in the left hand sidebar! Hmm.. I think there are some serious CSS template issues to fix here which is a shame because the stories are intriguing and the comments are often obnoxious and sometimes helpful. An interesting little experiment that could do with some house cleaning.
This site was reviewed on 2006-03-07 by dylan.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
dylan felt that The Stories You Cannot Tell deserved a rating of 2.5.
2 reviewers gave The Stories You Cannot Tell an average rating of 3.0000
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Site Category: Adult
Reader Rating: 2.5000 based on 2 votes
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