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Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by MarkMc »

lukasfoisy wrote: post #2

I suspect many folks here enjoy the minimalist Hacker News UI but I, for one, really enjoy what you've put together. It somehow makes me more interested in checking out stories/posts I might have otherwise skipped on the normal UI. I'll give this a spin day-to-day. What are your plans for this project?

Thanks! No fixed plans for future development - it kind of depends on how much traction it gets. If it gets a lot of interest I might add a 'AI editor' that chooses images and write subtitles (or deletes boring ones which have been written by the article's author). But even if it gets little use besides myself, hosting costs are minimal so it will be around for a while :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by rfl890 »

Retr0id wrote: post #27

I notice you're hotlinking the images from their respective sources. This isn't ideal from a privacy PoV, because you're basically announcing your presence to tens of different orgs even if you don't click on anything. And, some hosts might not appreciate their images being hotlinked - the big sites probably don't care or even notice, but someone's personal blog without a media CDN might end up getting hammered with…

If you're posting content on HN, you should always expect a traffic increase anyways. And Cloudflare CDN is free anyways (unless you don't want to use it for political reasons, your choice)... Although I understand hotlinking is frowned-upon in a general context

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by MarkMc »

sjf wrote: post #29

The site is neat, but the airport article is really the only one that benefits from an image though. It'd be nice to not have to scroll past logos, stock images, etc.

The presence or absence of an image depends on user votes. If you feel an image is not useful, click the '...' button and select 'Suggest or Choose an Image' > 'This story does not need an image'

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by MarkMc »

badcppdev wrote: post #30

I like how this looks but I have a feature suggestion.... Could you crowd-source categories/tags for the stories and then try and implement an opt-in / opt-out function that lets us exclude certain categories. I'm not even sure if it's possible but you're some of the way there.

Thanks that's a good idea! I think I'd need to use AI to categorise each story, then maybe have different tabs on the page for each category...

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by mertysn »

PeterHolzwarth wrote: post #25
redm wrote: post #6

The saying, “If it ain't broke, don’t fix it,” comes to mind. I’m all for progress, but Hacker News's simplicity and density are its major features.

Very true of course, but I find that at this point, I use https://hckrnews.com/ as much as I use vanilla HN now, at this point, as often I want this a bit fresher and raw. Of course, hckrnew also uses the same minimalist front end style of vanilla hackernews, so I'm sure that contributes.

^ hckrnews.com replaced vanilla HN for me years ago: you never miss popular articles if you don't visit the site for a while, and you can change the filtering to include more results if you have more time to browse. It's been wonderful for my browsing habits.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

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Post by wmeredith »

Retr0id wrote: post #27

I notice you're hotlinking the images from their respective sources. This isn't ideal from a privacy PoV, because you're basically announcing your presence to tens of different orgs even if you don't click on anything. And, some hosts might not appreciate their images being hotlinked - the big sites probably don't care or even notice, but someone's personal blog without a media CDN might end up getting hammered with…

I had the same thought. Hot linking images has been bad form since like 2004, if not earlier.
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