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Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results. But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection. This rai…

OS X has the Network Link Conditioner (installed by Xcode).

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Pretty cool. I think it could use some kind of feedback/indicator when I click on a photo and it's loading. I was clicking thumbnails and nothing was happening, wasn't sure what was suppose to happen. Turns out it was just loading, but there was no indication that was happening. This wouldn't be a big problem, but the entire thing seems to rely on you going very slowly and only click one at a time and wait for it to…

I would like to a "loading" indicator too, but I'm not sure what the best way to integrate it is. I've noticed the other issues you've pointed out - there definitely needs to be some more refinement that needs to be thought about.
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