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Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments
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Thanks for sharing. I'd suggest adding a bit of descriptive prose / "about" / readme / FAQ on the linked page. Also, its layout is suboptimal on mobile safari.
> I'd suggest adding a bit of descriptive prose / "about" / readme / FAQ on the linked page. I think this would be essential. I've been clicking around on it, and it's not entirely clear to me how to work it. I may be an idiot, but I'd really love some instructions. EDIT: I just now managed to see the "wait I'm lost" link toward the bottom. It took some doing (that's part of the page that gets clipped). I'm now follo…
I'm on it! https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/67
> Edit edit: OK, I think I have a basic understanding of what's up. It's overly complex for my needs, though -- I think I prefer the normal comment threads.
that's super reasonable! this is an experimental interface, some things are bound to work for some people and not for others
That page has a major layout issue for me: it appears to have a fixed height with no vertical scrollbar, so the bottom portion of the page is completely inaccessible to me even if I maximize the window. Is that part of what you're trying to test, or is it just an unimportant artifact of the test page? Also, I'm not actually on board with the visualization -- it just makes everything more confusing and harder to follo…
It also happens to me. The graph resizes and reorganizes as the window size is adjusted, but it always shrinks less than it should. There's always a part of the graph that goes beyond the bottom of the window.
Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments
This site is crashing my Firefox Klar (ie. Focus) with: https://gist.github.com/sm4rk0/bc35eafbd516047b73d9dec2e2663...
Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments
Very cool. I've got to admit though, I'm a little jaded towards "Chrome only" extensions. Is there a reason you couldn't build this in Firefox? As web developers, we've really got to stop this practice lest the web become further fragmented. Anyways, I don't want to come down on you specifically - I realize this is probably just an MVP. You did a great job.
I totally agree, I was just trying to minimize the number of things I was designing for while I was building it.
That said, Firefox addon is in my todo! https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/45
Funny story, I had almost exactly the same idea in 2013 and prototyped it in Mathematica (probably a lot of people have had this idea). Here's a screenshot of some random thread that I happened to visualize (comments were visible as tooltips in my rough and ready implementation): https://imgur.com/a/9xfw6cA (color represents common authorship, size is comment length). I didn't have the Javascript chops to do anything…
I've talked to a few people who've had similar ideas! In fact there is a pretty long history of people in visualization/hci communities creating applications like this. There's an extended abstract that goes along with this work that details this history. Dropping the root node is an interesting idea!
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I've talked to a few people who've had similar ideas! In fact there is a pretty long history of people in visualization/hci communities creating applications like this. There's an extended abstract that goes along with this work that details this history. Dropping the root node is an interesting idea!
Do you mind linking to the abstract? Would like to read that history.
Reminds me a little of the "Wikum" project that was worked on at MIT: http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/
Ooh, this is neat, thanks for sharing! I made something similar for Twitter conversations (shameless plug: https://treeverse.app ) so it's neat to see the UI decisions you made, especially the timeline interaction.
I love treeverse! I spent a lot of time looking at treeverse when I was building forum explorer. Did you see that it got used in this paper https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/to-journey-in-twitter-canoes-m...