Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
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Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
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Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#2I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site.
So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension.
Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#3I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension. Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
Absolutely, If you add link references, like related news, events or uncommon knowledge this will be perfect.
I always imagine someone making a book about the IAMA, there is just so much value on the posts, there are an amazing human view on people. Sometimes amazing, sometimes heartbreaking mostly just fascinating.
Great work!
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#4The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the font.
In regards to your concerns of legality. Reddit seems to be ok with scrapers, bots and the like as long as you dont make more than 30 requests per minute.
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#5I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension. Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, the problem I encountered (which I couldn't solve) is how to effectively and automatically find not just the questions and answers, but the discussion that stem from them.
A good AMA is one that creates discussion between the subject and commenter's so the majority of good content is buried underneath multiple comments. For example I did an AMA and it had a few hundred comments, the "top" question was pretty mediocre but it had a reply that made it a valuable question and that reply was the most "popular" (most replies, most votes) thing in the AMA. Your site would not have picked this up.
If you can solve the problem of dealing with all the nested comments and trying to work out the value of each reply (taking into account votes, length, number of replies and possibly the "relevant" workds?) then your site will absolutely be worth using. Instead of just being a different way to display the data, create extra value. Good AMAs are not just Q&As, they're discussions.
> So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site
Traditionally reddit is very good towards community projects, they pride themselves on their "different" approach to community, unless you're causing harm to reddit I don't see why they would require you to take this down. There are multiple tools that already exist that extend reddit and provide extra value, none of which have been taken down -- from what I've seen anyway.
Specific to your current implementation of the idea, your font-size is way too low, the focus of the site is the words so make them bigger! The size you have it now isn't very readable. Check our some blogs for examples of what sizes to use for text.
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#6The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the font. In regards to your concerns of legality. Reddit seems to be ok with scrapers, bots and the like as long as you dont make more than 30 requests per minute.
A couple months ago, reddit started refusing requests from my web scraper. Figured out they started checking the user agent and refusing connections that didn't look like they came from a user's browser. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere, it doesn't seem like they're overly friendly about allowing web scrapers.
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#7I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension. Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#8The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the font. In regards to your concerns of legality. Reddit seems to be ok with scrapers, bots and the like as long as you dont make more than 30 requests per minute.
A couple months ago, reddit started refusing requests from my web scraper. Figured out they started checking the user agent and refusing connections that didn't look like they came from a user's browser. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere, it doesn't seem like they're overly friendly about allowing web scrapers.
They are fine with it as long as you abide to their terms, they have a subreddit dedicated to reddit development and the reddit api which has discussion of scraping: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#9The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the font. In regards to your concerns of legality. Reddit seems to be ok with scrapers, bots and the like as long as you dont make more than 30 requests per minute.
Do you have any suggestions on fonts to use for readability? I was looking through Google Web Fonts and came up short.
Re: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
#10I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension. Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
Scraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.