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

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I do not like these kind of services because they take away ad revenue from the sites providing and generating that content. "Mongout" seems to do this for reddit and imgur, both sites where I willfully disable my ad-blocker.

And if the author didn't talk with imgur's owner then it's very likely his domain will get banned (+bonus points for not linking to imgur). I know a site which can't hotlink imgur images and I'd imagine there's plenty of them.

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

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I'm surprised you aren't getting more love on this one. I've already added the site to my bookmarks bar. I love reddit primarily for the images. Usually my browsing of reddit is done like this. 1. Click homepage. 2. Determine which links are images. 3. Click image link 4. Chuckle, or shrug 5. Two finger swipe back on my trackpad on lion 6. Scroll 7. Repeat 2 - 6 Now its 1. Go to Mongout 2. Click right 3. Repeat 2 ...…

I also think it's good when they're presented in isolation, a-la Instagram (which might be the cause of its popularity, I think this post phrases it right: http://thescenicroute0.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/passion-make...)

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

#116
Very enjoyable.

Feature Requests:

1. Preload next image? My connection sucks so pre-loading would be extremely valuable.

2. I would also love to see the top comment for each photo. Though, I suppose that may make it less addicting and cause traffic to bleed back to Reddit.

Great work ^_^

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

#117

Very enjoyable. Feature Requests: 1. Preload next image? My connection sucks so pre-loading would be extremely valuable. 2. I would also love to see the top comment for each photo. Though, I suppose that may make it less addicting and cause traffic to bleed back to Reddit. Great work ^_^

Preloading please! Time spent watching a little arrow twirl stops it being worth using for me.

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

#118

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,…

I'm Portuguese too, and "mongo" is not even a word, let alone a nasty one. "Mongolóide" is a nasty insult, but is not usually reduced to "mongo".

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

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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,…

Thanks for your feedback. - We didn't realise that mongo had such a negative connotation Portuguese - in british english it doesn't. We'll probably stick with it for the time being but change it if we offend people. - Yes, we really want to add in a way to select different subreddits. Not too sure about letting people sign in though but definitely a good idea. - We might go for non-obtrusive game mechanics, so the pr…

Mongo most definitely has negative connotations in British English, though not as much as Mong afaik

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

#120

I like it. Imgur actually has left / right arrow support as well. (Example: http://imgur.com/gallery/ExxXR then hit →) I find it works well for a few chuckles if I happen to be eating at my desk in search of some web bubblegum.

http://imgur.com/r/; shows all the linked imgur pictures in that particular subreddit and links back to the posts. Like reddit you can chain subreddits eg http://imgur.com/r/pics+funny
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