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:8 someone else actually went to the trouble of filing me a PR https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/mcnuttandrew.github.io/pull/... I really wish my tooling for spell checking while wri…

I know what y'all mean. As i've used the extension myself I find myself reading a really different type of comments then when i read linearly. It makes it easier to find people hav…

i think these issues should be addressed now? let me know if not

The demo page (which is linked above) should transform those loading message into a list of threads you can click into. Would you mind filing a bug over on https://github.com/mcnut…

Follow up here it is: https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/mcnuttandrew.github.io/blob/...

that's so cool! i had previously thought that the first link in this line of work was in '99 with Donath's visualizing conversation https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/4/4/JCMC44…

>It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either. That's very true. This hasn't really been designed around screen readers, making this type of graph + c…

I haven't! That's super cool!!

That's super cool! I hadn't seen that, very neat. That reminds me a lot of this https://github.com/enamulh/ConVis

I'm trying to figure out if i'm allowed to post it publicly yet, in the mean time shoot me a message (on say twitter @_mcnutt_) and I'll send it to you

Thanks! I totally agree, I was just trying to minimize the number of things I was designing for while I was building it. That said, Firefox addon is in my todo! https://github.com/…

Huh, i had not heard of that browser! cool i will investigate

What type of browser are y'all on? I'd love to fix this issue. It would be a big help if you would file me an issue here https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues

> I'd suggest adding a bit of descriptive prose / "about" / readme / FAQ on the linked page. I'm on it! https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/67 > Edit edit: OK, I …

Unfortunately this work isn't really targeted at mobile devices. It seems to work reasonably well on tablet size device (IMO), but I wasn't really sure how to address phones. I thi…

I love treeverse! I spent a lot of time looking at treeverse when I was building forum explorer. Did you see that it got used in this paper https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/to-journey…

I've talked to a few people who've had similar ideas! In fact there is a pretty long history of people in visualization/hci communities creating applications like this. There's an …

Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments