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Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

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Post by rightos »

ringaroundthetx wrote: post #27
SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #10

I hate to be a downer, and I really like what you've made... You're currently breaking the Reddit API access rules. In order to follow the rules, you would need to name your app "Grid for Reddit" or something along those lines. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api Edit: I'm not sure how the API rules play out if you're not using the API directly (like tacking on the json parameter), so maybe you're ok?

Aside from a general PSA, who cares? Here are the TOS https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezNdDNK1-P8mspSbmt... the consequences are basically limited to them disabling API access until compliance is restored. Rules don't exist if there aren't consequences.

And even if they do just steal an API key from a mobile app or two.

The bigger risk is that they'll come after you for using their trademark, but there's some PR risk to that too...

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

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Post by epenance »

saurik wrote: post #50
ringaroundthetx wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from a general PSA, who cares? Here are the TOS https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezNdDNK1-P8mspSbmt... the consequences are basically limited to them disabling API access until compliance is restored. Rules don't exist if there aren't consequences.

I don't know why the API terms of service were even brought up: this is obviously trademark violation. Those API terms of service are just there to give them some more immediate consequences without having to serve ISPs with legal notices and potentially go to court, as well as to leave more of a paper trail to show that the existence of their API is not them condoning people violating their trademarks. It just reall…

I honestly don't mind changing the name or whatever if Reddit has anything against the name, just wanted to pick up a name someone would remember, and my initial ideas had the domain taken.

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#54

Post by blurryoutside »

rightos wrote: post #52
ringaroundthetx wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from a general PSA, who cares? Here are the TOS https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezNdDNK1-P8mspSbmt... the consequences are basically limited to them disabling API access until compliance is restored. Rules don't exist if there aren't consequences.

And even if they do just steal an API key from a mobile app or two. The bigger risk is that they'll come after you for using their trademark, but there's some PR risk to that too...

> And even if they do just steal an API key from a mobile app or two.

How does this work?

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#55

Post by epenance »

wlkr wrote: post #14
mmjaa wrote: post #7

Nice .. but alas, it doesn't support chaining subreddits, e.g. reddit.com/r/CabinPorn+LavaPorn .. that's kind of a neat feature in reddit itself, so I'd request this also be possible in redditgrid too ..

I may completely misunderstand what you mean because I'm not a frequent Redditor but I was able to select multiple options for display in the grid, it just seems some subreddits are not supported. E.g. https://redditgrid.com/r/geologyporn%2BCabinPorn

All reddit that has images should be supported even though it might not show up in the search bar you can just add it to the url manually. Could get the reddit endpoint for autocompleting subreddits to function so ended up making a small database of my own with the the top 6k subreddits

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

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Post by epenance »

varikin wrote: post #49

I would add some sort of nsfw filter. I click on SFW and Album Art (/r/AlbumArtPorn) and the top post right now has the NSFW tag. Grid showed that nice and big right at the top. Would be better to default to blurring/hiding NSFW tagged posts.

Good point, I'll look into checking the NSFW tag on each post too

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#57

Post by Mahn »

jzymbaluk wrote: post #25
winkywooster wrote: post #20

Cool idea, but it'd be nice to be able to click on an image to take you back to the comments page for it.

Definitely. This is a very pretty redesign, but I think the real secret sauce of Reddit is post titles, and comments, and you definitely lose something not being able to see either of those.

Let's be honest though, this grid-like interface is going to be used mostly for the NSFW subreddits, where the title and the comments aren't really that important.

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#58

Post by epenance »

jesalg wrote: post #36

Nice execution! I made something like this a long time ago: http://www.ruddl.com/ Although I haven't maintained it in a while. Curious what kind of tech stack you are using?

Angular Frontend, Laravel backend with Memcache to control my caching

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#59

Post by epenance »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #48

Wondering if/how you plan on monetizing this?

Currently the idea is to add enough features for people to think it's worth something, other than that I've been thinking of adding coin-hive with a option to opt out in case you are on a mobile or such
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