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Re: Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

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Post by franciscoapinto »

Right, I'll just round up my suggestions and those I agreed with from other comments:

- In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Think "retard", only worse.

- Have this linked with your reddit account so you can up/down vote. Also, then you could, by default, show pics from the user's default subreddits. You should allow an user to add/remove subreddits to get pics from, independently from the user's default subreddits.

- Gamify this. Think up some sort of achievements (opting out has to be an option, of course). First step: you have that bar filling up, what about having a counter nearby, which increments everytime the bar fills?

- You should do some preloading up to a max of USER_CONFIGURABLE_NUMBER images, have a sane default like 1 or 2.

That's it for now.

Edit:

- I just got a imgur "this image is no longer available" thingy. I think you can scratch those from showing up entirely.

- You could add some sort of sharing feature. A permalink would be a nice step in that direction. I just found an image I'd like to share with a friend and I noticed mongout wasn't gonna be a part of that process.

Re: Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

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Post by bwm »

drx wrote: post #9
mwhooker wrote: post #5

Here's a lower-fi version http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.c... hack the URL to control subreddits source here https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr

Any plans to support setting subreddits on the hifi version? Nice site, btw.

Thanks. We actually had subreddit support in an earlier version but decided to take it out for the sake of simplicity. It's definitely a feature that we'd like to add back in though.

Re: Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

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Post by bwm »

dotBen wrote: post #7

It's probably worth noting that in other parts of the English speaking world, the word "mong" is derogatory and offensive. I'm not sure if "MongOut" is a derivative of MongoDB, but if you're aiming at a maintream global audience you might want to consider the sensitivities.

Thanks, we've got similar feedback previously, but decided to stick with the name as it was memorable. I do realize that this is something that could put people off though.
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