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

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Post by rkagerer »

MarkMc wrote: post #33
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'

Is there a way I can raise the threshold?

Not every story is deserving of a photo, and if their presence felt more curated it might significantly improve my experience on your site.

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

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Post by Sn0wCoder »

The UI is very nice. Congratulations on the release, with all the articles about releasing the last few days must feel good.

Does not like my VPN / AdBlocker, getting a few CORS errors connecting to the Amazon S3. If you really want people to use the site would recommend proxying the request through the server. If you are already running a node.js server straightforward to do, if not still a huge leap but would also want to configure Caddy (NGINX) [or run on the same server and block the port] to run the proxy locally and forward only your requests so it does not get abused.

A lot of the audience here is running AdBlock and / or VPN so others are most likely to hit the same issue.

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

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Post by kirubakaran »

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.

You might like this: https://histre.com/hn/

(Disclosure: I made it)

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

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Post by Andrew6rant »

rkagerer wrote: post #50

I want to thank you for doing this, but for a different reason: it reminded me how much I appreciate the vanilla HN layout. I viscerally HATE all the news sites that look like your project. I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success. I used to think it wasn't just the pictures. I found the average quality of reporting went down, along with a rise in clickbait headlines and st…

> "I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success."

There are a few news sites that have barebones/low-bandwidth or HTML-only frontends. For example:

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://text.npr.org/

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/

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

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Post by sourcepluck »

PaulHoule wrote: post #41

One of the best HN redesigns I've seen in that it's not just "add whitespace" but is a totally different layout. My take on social media is that you have to have an image in a post if you want people to engage with it.

You're writing that on a medium which is social which gets tons of engagement which doesn't have any images.

I don't get it. Surely every single thread that got even modest engagement on HN since the beginning of the place disproves your take?

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