Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual • Hacker News Board

anton_tarasenko wrote: post #2

Very nice! Imgur allows browsing Reddit subreddits too. For example: * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/EngineeringPorn/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/TechnologyPorn/top/all It shows only images hosted by Imgur. Supports Reddit-like path requests, like: * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/hot/all * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/new…

Cool, i actually didnt know that.

Guess ill be adding a "sort" option too, as soon as I'm done with the other features that has been requested.

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Post by lurker- » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 12:13 PM UTC

This is really great, and surprisingly fast (images seem to load much faster than on Reddit, at least for me).

Can you share more info about how/where it's hosted and the stack used (besides angular)?

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Post by ZeeshanAK » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 12:31 PM UTC

This is beautiful. If you could also add the post caption on hovering the image, it would be great.

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Post by falcolas » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

anton_tarasenko wrote: post #2

Very nice! Imgur allows browsing Reddit subreddits too. For example: * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/EngineeringPorn/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/TechnologyPorn/top/all It shows only images hosted by Imgur. Supports Reddit-like path requests, like: * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/hot/all * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/new…

The imgur albums won't show what's posted directly to Reddit's image hosting though, will they?

I'm at work and know Reddit's temperament for images, so I don't feel comfortable comparing the output between the two services.

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Post by mmjaa » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

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 ..

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Post by TN1ck » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

Cool, really nice execution!

In my bachelor thesis I did some internal search-engine frontend some gamification and the like. I recently came around to build a quick and dirty reddit backend for the content, it also can be considered a visual browser for subreddits. For anyone interested:

Github: https://github.com/TN1ck/bachelor-thesis Runs at: https://bachelor-tom-nick.herokuapp.com/#/

It's in german though, but just click on 'Anmelden' and it should work, there is no auth layer currently.

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Post by kaliatech » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

ZeeshanAK wrote: post #5

This is beautiful. If you could also add the post caption on hovering the image, it would be great.

Agreed. This is excellent, but being able to link back to the original post on certain images would make it perfect.

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 2:35 PM UTC

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?