Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts • Hacker News Board

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#11

Post by ladon86 » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:46 PM UTC

Awesome job! Are you just using the RSS feed?

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#12

Post by tcfast » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

ladon86 wrote: post #11

Awesome job! Are you just using the RSS feed?

rss and google

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#13

Post by tcfast » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #4

There is a reason the majority of news sites (well, any good news site) limits the width of text; wide text is hard to read. Although the HN version that lists everything with just the title is great, but the actual post display is awful, even though it's supposed to be inheriting how HN displays posts it should still be limited :(

i've limited it to 800px

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#14

Post by bhaile » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:56 PM UTC

I'm not a huge fan of TC but this is good way to skim articles.

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#15

Post by berberich » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:58 PM UTC

tcfast wrote: post #2

You can also filter posts by authors.

Thanks - my MG Siegler-only TC is now a reality.

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#16

Post by danielhfrank » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:04 PM UTC

Wow, you just rolled all my most visited sites into one. And now I can read techcrunch again without my brain melting. Actually, that might not be a good thing, but thank you anyway. Great work

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#17

Post by nir » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:08 PM UTC

Very cool. Reminds me of an app I once co-built (with the now famous Mr. Bragger ;) that lets you skin an RSS feed with a customizable HTML/CSS template (compatible with Tumblr's template markup)

http://feedvolley.com/ (code: https://github.com/niryariv/FeedVolley ) - could use a little UI love, but pretty stable. If anyone's interested in building this further I'd be happy to help you get started.

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#18

Post by treematohs » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:22 PM UTC

Unfortunately this doesn't make the quality of the reporting any better.

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#19

Post by noinput » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

Nice work. add a ?t=json option and this could get fun.

Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

#20

Post by coderdude » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:30 PM UTC

So basically it's all of TechCrunch's content with none of their ability to make money off it. This'll last long.