Nice concept.
Thank you
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#62Congrats, great concept and delivery!
As feedback, I'm noticing that some thumbnails for specific types of urls (e.g. PDF's and Ask HN) aren't being generated correctly, and just get a solid color. Maybe a static icon representing the type of a particular url (e.g. https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Ma1c43eb41218e48366a5dc8a...) would be better to look at?
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#63Earlier 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.
Another solution I can think of is - encrypt the URL with a symmetric key. Decrypt it to generate the thumbnail
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#64Awesome idea/execution.
One issue with HN that I constantly run into is that I might miss an interesting article because each submission (30 on each page) look so similar. Your approach (where at most 4 articles appear within my browser at once) allows me to take more time to consider whether I should read each article.
Well done!!
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#65I really like the concept. Great work! The auto refresh is slightly annoying for me personally but I could live with it :)
It is massively annoying and a huge UX misstep. It just happened to me: I hovered over a story I was interested and could feel the muscles in my hand tensing as I was about to click when suddenly the stories refreshed and I lost the one I was interested in. It made me somewhat irrationally angry, like something was stolen from me.
Do not automatically change content that requires people to read
Re: Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs
#66The is cool yet also makes me feel like the hours I spend staring at HN are just as dumb as hours spent staring at designer bags on Pinterest. Having HN appear as a wall of text just hides it really well.
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#67Very good idea and execution. It is nice to be able to compare the power image-based design versus the simplicity of the text-based design
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#68Congrats, great concept and delivery! As feedback, I'm noticing that some thumbnails for specific types of urls (e.g. PDF's and Ask HN) aren't being generated correctly, and just get a solid color. Maybe a static icon representing the type of a particular url (e.g. https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Ma1c43eb41218e48366a5dc8a... ) would be better to look at?
Yes, thank you. The pdfs are hard to screenshot. They can consume a lot of memory on load. It's planned to have an icon or something. Right now they are ignored.
Thank you for the suggestion
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#69This 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.
The jumping around will be addressed. See one of the suggestions in the comments.
Regarding infinite scrolling, I have a personal preference for this type of navigation. I consume those on my tablet, and feels natural just to scroll.
Thank you for the feedback.
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#70You're missing the giant login modal that prevents you from using the site ;)