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Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by Koshkin »

esperent wrote: post #97
breakingcups wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. It works great with NotTheOnion for example: https://unim.press/#nottheonion

Good choice. The headlines look great, the pictures look great, but unfortunately the text for every article is just "lorem ipsum...". If there has to be text there for the layout to work, in cases where the post is only a headline and image then blurred unreadable text would look better there.

Actually the headlines are painful to look at - they should not be adjusted to the column’s width like they are.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by davidajackson »

self_awareness wrote: post #55

It hangs on "reading stories". Web app authors can be very creative, but one thing I don't like about web apps is that often their error handling is nonexistent. It's not about individual authors; behemots like Microsoft also do this in an irritating way: "Something did not work. Reload the page please" -- Is this really the best a billion dollar company can do? Well, I suppose this is still better than no error at a…

Microsoft also often includes a long id for the error and shows it to the user in for example Office 365, which is mostly useless to the user (they could compress it into a nice shorter id).

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by thesephist »

ProZsolt wrote: post #105
ozfive wrote: post #104

It says Sunday June 2020. It's Saturday isn't it?

Depends where are you in the world. In NZ it's already Sunday. EDIT: just checked the date is wrong.

I somehow missed in rolling this out that JS's `new Date().getDay()` returns a Sunday-based week, not a Monday-based one. Thanks for pointing it out! Fix rolling out now :)

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by ozfive »

thesephist wrote: post #106
ProZsolt wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends where are you in the world. In NZ it's already Sunday. EDIT: just checked the date is wrong.

I somehow missed in rolling this out that JS's `new Date().getDay()` returns a Sunday-based week, not a Monday-based one. Thanks for pointing it out! Fix rolling out now :)

No problem. I had just woken up and looked at this so I was confused thinking did I sleep through Saturday?!?!?

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by pteraspidomorph »

thesephist wrote: post #107
pteraspidomorph wrote: post #95

Looks great. You could add /r/popular (the default front page) to the dropdown, though it seems to work if I edit it into the URL.

Good idea -- just added it, update rolling out now! Thanks.

Thanks! Here's another fun idea (sorry I'm not implementing this myself and submitting as a pull request; do feel free to ignore me): For the ones that have lipsum because they don't have text, you could use the top comment. Something like:

"COMMENT CONTENT," USERNAME said when prompted

USERNAME had this to comment: "COMMENT CONTENT"

We interviewed USERNAME, who said: "COMMENT CONTENT"

etc.

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