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Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

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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)?

Angular in the frontend with state stored in a ngrx store, backend is a simple api made with Laravel with some heavy caching in front to make it swift.

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#45

Seems to not pick up the images hosted directly by Reddit under their i.reddit.com url.

That is not unlikely, atm I'm writing models for each image host to make sure i get all the edge cases, they are not very polite in how they return their data :P

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#47

Cool idea, but it'd be nice to be able to click on an image to take you back to the comments page for it.

Came here to say the same thing. It would also be nice to see stats when you click on an image. (# of upvotes and # of comments, etc.)

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#49
I would add some sort of nsfw filter. I click on SFW and Album Art (/r/AlbumArtPorn) and the top post right now has the NSFW tag. Grid showed that nice and big right at the top. Would be better to default to blurring/hiding NSFW tagged posts.

Re: Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

#50

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?

Aside from a general PSA, who cares? Here are the TOS https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezNdDNK1-P8mspSbmt... the consequences are basically limited to them disabling API access until compliance is restored. Rules don't exist if there aren't consequences.

I don't know why the API terms of service were even brought up: this is obviously trademark violation. Those API terms of service are just there to give them some more immediate consequences without having to serve ISPs with legal notices and potentially go to court, as well as to leave more of a paper trail to show that the existence of their API is not them condoning people violating their trademarks.

It just really isn't that difficult for people to respect trademarks: we should not have sympathy for violations that are this blatant. HN should really not even be leaving it up, and they could themselves be served with notice (and yes: I realize that YCombinator invested in reddit; the result would just be some request in the backend); their strong and intrusive content moderation policy means they don't have any argument that "this was just user information".

(And if anyone from reddit is digging for examples of consumer confusion: when I saw "Reddit Grid" as I scrolled by, I absolutely had a first reaction of "oh, reddit is releasing a new feature to improve browsing? cool!" before remembering "oh yeah, people tend to be shitty about respecting trademarks, so watch this just be someone who wanted that official-sounding connotation".)

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