I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
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#42How does it actually work? Can you add an "about" page that goes into the algo? Or can you add more info on the readme on github? I'd love to learn more.
I might add a proper explanation at some point, but for now you can view-source the page and read the code, there really isn't that much of it.
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#43I love the concept. But the long load at startup really kills it. Even clicking off the site and reloading makes me have to go through the download all over again.
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#44Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time. I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my pho…
First thing I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophageal_cancer
Thank you.
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#45I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
that's really cool!!
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#46TIL:
The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are currently owned and under the authority of the United States Government. They used to be owned by Denmark (and called Danish West Indies). They were sold to the U.S. on January 17, 1917, because of fear that the Germans would capture them and use them as a submarine base in World War I.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islan...
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#47Built something similar for research papers:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/soch
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#48This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.
Yeah. Should be able to load in the background once you start scrolling
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#49all images overflow for me
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#50This would actually be really fun if built around social feature like curators who could quote-repost the posts, popular/trending sorting and a threaded comment system.
Can you not?