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Re: Show HN: Scroll Reddit

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Post by JonathanBouman »

one-man-bucket wrote: post #2

This is really neat! I never realized how much of the reddit content was internet memes :)

Thanks! Also give other subreddits a try, /r/listentothis (http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=listentothis) or /r/itookapicture (http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=itookapicture), those really show the power of the UI. Another thing to try is to visit it with a tablet :)

Re: Show HN: Scroll Reddit

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Post by canadaduane »

This is really useful and well presented. Two things:

1. The flying boxes effect is cool at first, but it's annoying when you are trying to look at the articles near the source of the "boxplosion". They obscure (and on a slow browser) cause temporary occlusion of the stuff that I'd like to read. Maybe cause them to explode in the background, rather than the foreground?

2. Although the UI is simple and really nice looking, I think one of the most important pieces of information from Reddit is "popularity". Perhaps you can fit the number of votes next to each box. Or even better, add a single-bar bar chart with positive and negative votes like this:

+ + + | - -

Where each '+' or '-' in this representation is 100 votes or something like that.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Reddit

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Post by danso »

I can't tell if this is a site meant to increase Reddit's usability or if it's a satire mocking the kind of content that Reddit too often features. Either way, very well done!

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Post by JonathanBouman »

canadaduane wrote: post #6

This is really useful and well presented. Two things: 1. The flying boxes effect is cool at first, but it's annoying when you are trying to look at the articles near the source of the "boxplosion". They obscure (and on a slow browser) cause temporary occlusion of the stuff that I'd like to read. Maybe cause them to explode in the background, rather than the foreground? 2. Although the UI is simple and really nice loo…

Thanks for the feedback. 1. Good suggestion! I'll put it on my todo and see if it's possible. 2. Not sure if you saw it, but it is possible to hover the box and see the votes (bottom right). Most popular content is rendered on top (in some situations the order could slightly differ because of asynchronous calls being made in the background). Not showing the votes by default was because I try to keep it as clean as possible. I can fix you a parameter to set if you want to see the votes by default, let me know and I put it on the todo.
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