Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
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Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
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Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#2We posted this two weeks ago, and we've improved the demo in response to the initial feedback. Thanks for your feedback!
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#3Interesting idea. Probably would be a stronger demo if you pre-populated it with some actually worthwhile comments.
Really don't like the pagination. Scrolling is how this is done on the web. Arbitrary page breaks and non-intuitive scrolling breaks this.
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#4We posted this two weeks ago, and we've improved the demo in response to the initial feedback. Thanks for your feedback!
Just out of curiosity, how do you differentiate with http://rapgenius.com ?
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#5I agree with rdl, I think classical scrolling would work better here. Also, could you make the app utilize the full width of the browser window? The comment box obscures the text on my 1680x1050 display, even though there would be enough space to display it next to it.
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#6I actually prefer the Medium's implementation of sidebar annotations/comments. For example: https://medium.com/design-ux/926eb80d64e3
At least, the content isn't blocked when the annotations/comments are activated.
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#7Is this not how Medium comments work? And the pagination is a bit annoying.
That aside, What's the use case of this app? Is it like an alternative to disqus for my blog?
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#8I agree with rdl, I think classical scrolling would work better here. Also, could you make the app utilize the full width of the browser window? The comment box obscures the text on my 1680x1050 display, even though there would be enough space to display it next to it.
Yes. Great feedback, thanks.
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#9Normally I don't comment (at all) on posts like this, but this is just bad.
The comments overlay cover up the very text that you're suppose to be reading. This disrupts the reading flow, making it hard to find my way back to where I was reading, especially comments are merely secondary to the actual article. To get back to the article I have to press this tiny close button on the top left corner of the comments overlay. Plus, there's a huge amount of whitespace to the right of the article which you're not using http://i.imgur.com/1JvLWQP.png - why cover important content, leaving large amount of screen space unused when there's perfectly good unused space on the right?
The pagination scheme is terrible. The article is a blog post, not a book. And even if it were, no one would want to read something on screens. (Edit: Firefox 21 beta. I see Chrome that has transitions, which means this is not actually poor performance, but simply missing transitions. I still don't see any reason why Firefox shouldn't have transitions, though) The performance is terrible. I can count seconds between me clicking on the next page button and the next page actually showing up, with no feedback whatsoever that the page is loading.
Document annotation and comment UI isn't hard. When Microsoft Word has you beat in terms of UI, you're probably doing something very wrong.
Re: Show HN: Annotate PG, our YC application demo
#10I love the responsive design of your navigation menus. But it feels redundant when i see your page on my laptop. Both the left navigation pane and the TOC button display the same list of articles.
Instead you could perhaps make the TOC button display the chapters within the current article on a wider display and revert to the current behaviour on phone/tablet.