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Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

jonesjohnson wrote: post #7

It's a fun little project and I appreciate the effort you put in, but I found it hard to "consume". As already written, the text takes too long to show up. Why not have a mouse-over and show a full block of text? I think it would have been great, if the effort went into something more "useful", like improving/cleaning up something like Sheldon Brown's collection, which is already great. Furthermore, so many things ar…

Agree about the slow text reveal.

Having a mode to automatically, instantly, "just show me already" would be good.

If you want it to look fancy maybe have all the text fade-in over the course of the animation? Once the parts are all in place you'd then see all the text.

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

#32

Post by lemoing »

jonesjohnson wrote: post #7

It's a fun little project and I appreciate the effort you put in, but I found it hard to "consume". As already written, the text takes too long to show up. Why not have a mouse-over and show a full block of text? I think it would have been great, if the effort went into something more "useful", like improving/cleaning up something like Sheldon Brown's collection, which is already great. Furthermore, so many things ar…

I disabled the text animation for now since I can see how it would be frustrating. Maybe later I’ll go back to a line-by-line reveal since I still like the aesthetic!

Content-wise, some of this stuff I’m still learning about and hope to fix/correct, and some of it just won’t fit into a page, nor do I really want to force too much content into it and risk it not being accessible to noobs like me. Like you said, you have to draw the line somewhere and there was always something more I could have added.

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

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Post by lemoing »

Tohsig wrote: post #14

Fun idea! I'll echo the comments about bringing in the text all at once, or at least line by line. The characters are definitely printing out at your 60 chars/second target; it's just significantly slower than I think a lot of people read. Some additional common parts you might consider adding: - Rear wheel hub (cassette compatibility) and front wheel hub - Bottom bracket (crankset compatibility) - Axles (quick relea…

Thanks for the feedback! I disabled the text animation for the time being.

There is a note about the star nut if you click on the headset top cap and then explode the headset, and I also mentioned QR vs thru axle briefly when talking about the fork. BB is definitely missing and I should add it. I was also thinking it would be fun to make the wheel explodable too, which would give me a place to talk more about hubs, spokes, rim standards, etc.

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

#34

Post by lemoing »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #11

Thank you for creating this! Please consider removing the animation effect from the text. If it’s very important to you, maybe use a fade-in for the full paragraph? While cute, the effects force the viewer to wait which is not a pleasant experience.

Disabled! Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

#35

Post by lemoing »

MrGinkgo wrote: post #27

Super cool! I'm just starting to get into very basic html/web-dev, so not only were the 'hidden' messages in your html cute to read via inspect element, but seeing that this was all contained in a single javascript file was pretty eye-opening for me! thanks for making it open source, I'll be sure to give it another look once I get to that. My only suggestion, alongside everyone else's agreement that text should be fa…

Breadcrumbs and hyperlinks are great ideas, thanks!

I’d love to see something similar for film projectors, let me know if you end up building it.

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

#36

Post by lemoing »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #12

Try speeding up the animations and adding easing to them… https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/animation-t...

I rolled my own easing function (taking the square root of the progress, which is a number between 0 and 1) because I was missing the vocabulary to search for a proper one. Thanks for the link!

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

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Post by lemoing »

tolerance wrote: post #24

Text speed is fine in my opinion, but what is most disruptive is that I couldn’t select it. You put too much effort into the prose to be keeping it caged.

I hadn’t considered that! Since I’m using canvas, I’d have to roll my own selection code since what’s displayed is just a bitmap. But I may fall down that rabbit hole someday :)

Re: Show HN: Bicyclopedia

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Post by mc3301 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #18
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #16

The Bicyclopedia seems to think that the frame is the most expensive part of the bicycle. The infernal suspension forks on 3 out of 4 of the bikes in my garage would beg to differ, both in upfront cost and ongoing maintenance.

A non-suspension fork is ok for 95% of people and likely cheaper than a matching frame, less material and a simpler shape. Also - my suspension fork is 20 years old, has never had maintenance and is working fine. What do you do to yours? :) (Or maybe my fork is NOT fine and I just don’t know it…)

A fairly common story for people with a fork that has never had maintenance:

1. "It works fine" 2. Get a shop to rebuild it for a surprisingly low fee 3. "Holy smokes, I had no idea my fork could be this good!"

Basically, a quick rebuild (yourself or a shop) is definitely worth it.

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