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Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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eddieweng wrote: post #77
sanitycheck wrote: post #74

Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it. Thoughts: There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in the same US state becomes just guesswork, maybe that situation could be prevented. (Also, non-Americans don't know the abbreviations for most US states.) It's too easy when the choices are too geographically diverse. Maybe the 'wrong' options…

Hello, glad you guys like it! I've changed the pause/play mechanism of the game. Now when the tab is not focused, it will automatically pause the video. Is this good enough for you?

I really like it. In principle it could be like a window kept open "into the world" while working.

Given the need to interact with your site to change scenes, and that I was trying to work in another window, the constant pausing today (when another window had focus but the POV tab was still visible in its window) was a bit bothersome (clicking again to restart would change the video as well IIRC). I don't know if a setting option would help or distract.

For idle viewing, I wish there were a slide-show option to periodically change videos automatically, and also a "just subtitle country" option especially for relatives who have never been overseas from US, and could learn without extra mental overhead being forced to guess.

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