Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit • Hacker News Board

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

#91

Post by peterwwillis » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:22 AM UTC

This is basically why I hate the internet.

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

#92

Post by aw3c2 » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:25 AM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #61

kami8845 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

psh, who cares MongoDB has the full-blown Mongo in there and they're doing fine.

"Mongo" != "Mong" 'MongoOut' would be fine 'MongOut' is not.

at least in Germany Mongo is short for Mongoloid (Down syndrome) and is a insult.

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

#93

Post by Jach » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:31 AM UTC

bwm wrote: post #16

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.

Thanks for not changing it. There are way more important things to worry about.

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

#94

Post by sendos » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:32 AM UTC

I just use a bookmarklet I wrote (https://gist.github.com/1572878), which enables me to go to any reddit page, and then click the bookmarklet to see all the images inline.

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

#95

Post by nchuhoai » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:39 AM UTC

Bockit wrote: post #66

I've been using Flipboard[1] on the iPad to read pic heavy subreddits that I don't necessarily want to see everything from but like to browse from time to time. Yahoo pipes[2] turns the subreddit's top stories .json representation into an RSS feed, and then Twitterfeed[3] posts that RSS feed to a custom twitter account which I can then follow on Flipboard. I got this setup from http://miguelrios.org/reddit-in-flipboa…

just curious why you wouldnt just use the rss feed directly?

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

#96

Post by Baba_Chaghaloo » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 6:43 AM UTC

It is addictive but the little arrows are a pain on the iPhone.

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

#97

Post by m_for_monkey » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 7:03 AM UTC

m0th87 wrote: post #64

I can't imagine using this over reddpics. Their tiled interface allows me to browse posts faster than the normal reddit interface. This in contrast feels slower than either, since you can only see a single image at a time.

Or see a movie, up to 30 images per second!

In many cases a quick glance is not enough to tell what's a picture about, do you select by overall color, or what?

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

#98

Post by cefarix » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 7:09 AM UTC

I just wasted 3 hours on this (in a good way).

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

#99

Post by mrchess » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 7:13 AM UTC

Might defeat the purpose but you should add top comments as well. Part of the fun of browsing is the added contextual humor :)

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

#100

Post by joshu » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 7:14 AM UTC

I love the idea of this, but one of the problems with building products like this is that it's basically other people's content (or other people's other people's content...) and is probably hard to scale a business around properly.