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Show HN: Online family tree maker built with React
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, that makes sense. I'll see how I can make it more intuitive
I recommend starting with one empty box (every family tree has at least one member) than an entirely blank screen.
Your assumptions about families are conservative and oppressive, you moron!
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have experience in this area, but wouldn't the standard way get pretty messy in modern relationships, in which people have multiple children with multiple different alternating parents?
I assume you want to represent all of the relationships on the tree in any case, so I think minimising the number of required parent-child lines would actually make representing modern relationships less messy. You'd have a pink relationship line for each partnership (that will be the same and just as messy in both approaches) Then you'd have one child line from each relationship line to each of the children that cam…
I was thinking about not having relationship lines or even the concept of "relationship" at all. Relationships don't have any meaning concerning family nowadays, only kinship has.
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#34Is this project downable? Github?
No. It's proprietary. And you can't even save without paying! :O
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#35Coincidentally, I was talking to my father about getting his family tree work 'stored' in some digital format for future generations. It struck me that a simple directory structure with info about each person in each directory, text files with info in, and then tar'd up would be about the most future-proof format you could get. Anyone else thought about this?
That might be the "easiest", but it's not the most portable, and would be a nightmare to navigate. I'd recommend he work in a software package that can export to GEDCOM. That's a structured data format used by genealogists to track relationships and metadata. The current version is 21 years old, and the original spec was designed in 1984. It's robust and industry-standard. Every single genealogical product worth its…
I'm not just being flippant, but GEDCOM is a dinosaur. Can you imagine Facebook storing its relationship data in GEDCOM? Unthinkable. Genealogy most certainly needs a new standard.
Also, I know people who work for ancestry, and the general thinking is it's hard to update old interfaces for a newer generation when a very important public is 50+.
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#36When you launch the person dialog, focus on the Name input, then when they click enter, save and close the dialog. You are also missing out on a number of fields when creating a family tree (gender and maiden name come to mind fight off the bat).
SEXIST!
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#37$4.99 a month seems a bit steep for what looks like a very basic UI with no features like multi-user editing or photos or anything other than a node-link builder.
It's still a nice UI for the primary task.
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#38I love family trees: they're interesting, complex, data-driven, and beautiful. There are some very challenging decisions you need to make to make a tree readable, like whose ancestors to show, whose children, and how far back. To give you a sense, I have ~3,500 people in my family tree. I want different trees to show, say: a) all descendants of a root ancestor, or b) all of my ancestors. This is reasonably easy to us…
This is very interesting insight! May I ask which software or service you use to keep track of your family tree?
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#39Any reasons for not having Facebook login (and perhaps deeper integration)?
No reason in particular, but I don't have a Facebook account so integration with Facebook would have required me to sign up first to test the integration. I don't mind creating an account on Facebook if required, but I am trying to avoid it if possible.
Oh, I just got downvoted, unsure why. I was thinking that it's a pretty neat tool to integrate with Facebook. As your primary goal is to build your family structure, you may want to share it with your family members (and maybe have them help building the tree).
Also, depending how you want to grow, fb login is typically the most successful one.
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#40I love family trees: they're interesting, complex, data-driven, and beautiful. There are some very challenging decisions you need to make to make a tree readable, like whose ancestors to show, whose children, and how far back. To give you a sense, I have ~3,500 people in my family tree. I want different trees to show, say: a) all descendants of a root ancestor, or b) all of my ancestors. This is reasonably easy to us…
3500?!
and I don't even know who my grandfather was...