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Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#51

Cute - but totally the opposite of what I want. Can you make a site that makes Pinterest (and Facebook!) look like HN, reducing each post to a clear, informative headline, so I can quickly scan 25+ posts without having to scroll, and click through to the ones I'm actually interested in?

Here's Pinterest without the pictures https://about:blank.

Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#52

Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news - right now that's the old version using Angularjs The project uses as a starting point the amazing Vuejs Implementation from https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0 . It has super fast server side rendering, that's why the feedback is imediate as you load the page. The thumbnails…

May be you should consider rejecting random urls from your thumbnail generation endpoint. Now I could generate thumbnail of any website e.g. my blog https://hnews.xyz/thumbnail/?url=http://rajeeshcv.com

Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess there are two types of users - constant checkers might like auto-refresh but if you check less frequently then you want to scroll deep and for us, auto-refresh is a usability nightmare.

Agree with this. If you have a solution please let me know. For now I'm considering adding it as a setting.

If you choose to have it as a setting, have a VERY big switch that stands out at the top, so people can SEE that it can be changed.

Then give the option to hide it, after you've made your selection. :)

Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#55

Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news - right now that's the old version using Angularjs The project uses as a starting point the amazing Vuejs Implementation from https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0 . It has super fast server side rendering, that's why the feedback is imediate as you load the page. The thumbnails…

May be you should consider rejecting random urls from your thumbnail generation endpoint. Now I could generate thumbnail of any website e.g. my blog https://hnews.xyz/thumbnail/?url=http://rajeeshcv.com

It's a hard one to do.I agree you can do that now. I'm thinking on a solution, but it's not really easy. Right now I have no solution.

Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May be you should consider rejecting random urls from your thumbnail generation endpoint. Now I could generate thumbnail of any website e.g. my blog https://hnews.xyz/thumbnail/?url=http://rajeeshcv.com

It's a hard one to do.I agree you can do that now. I'm thinking on a solution, but it's not really easy. Right now I have no solution.

It shouldn't be too difficult - surely right now you have some sort of task that scrapes the Hacker News API to present the stories? Generate the thumbnail then, store it on S3.

Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

#59
This is really nice, well done! One suggestion I might add is that you remove the hover effect from the image. It feels a bit inconsistent maybe?

Also not 100% sure about the infinite scrolling. I spend a lot of time on half-working internet and have to refresh the page a lot. Also it means that when scrolling there's a lot of items jumping around on the page, which means you lose your place quite easily.

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