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Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by jrhizor »

green-eclipse wrote: post #177

Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…

It went viral on Twitter this weekend, which is probably why more people are noticing it now.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by jancsika »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #169
clementpiki wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your feedback, the 30fps limit is temporary, until I have fully tested perfs with video files at a higher framerate can you tell me more about 'and let go with momentum', not sure what you mean? Is it about loss of precision, not being responsive, bad snapping to closest frame?

When I click and drag on the timeline play bar or a key frame widget in a layer; then, if I release the mouse button with velocity; the play head and key frame keep moving for a little bit, even though I am not dragging them anymore, as though they have momentum and are being dragged to a stop; the widgets should not behave this way. The big picture feedback is that often there is an alignment between “I have a lot o…

> IMO just copy AE’s UX affordances first if your goal is to make something you want other people to use.

@clementpiki I second this advice and strongly suggest to document it as a guideline for your project as soon as possible. Surf on the shoulders of AE's UI giants!

Otherwise a small but vocal number of devs users who implicitly love FOSS software will end up rationalizing all the little UI quirks as features. Worse, their lack of expertise in UI design will be proportional to their level of energy and post length on all your communication channels. It's the epitome of bike-shedding. But if you just standardize on "whatever AE does" nobody will spend a moment advocating for putting quirks into the UI. (Plus they'll be very forgiving about quirks since it's obvious that getting the UI to work exactly like a proprietary piece of software is a very difficult problem.)

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Zambyte »

Kye wrote: post #113
Zambyte wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Exactly. It omits future network calls (things that have not yet happened by the moment you look), which is what the person you were replying to was talking about.

It does not omit future network calls. You can, in fact, use the network tab to monitor a page's ongoing network activity as originally suggested.

> It does not omit future network calls.

It does.

> You can, in fact, use the network tab to monitor a page's ongoing network activity as originally suggested.

Did you forget that this comment chain was about leaking data to the server? Observing that you have leaked (note: past tense!) your data is not a recommended way to prevent leaking data.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by ssahoo »

jrhizor wrote: post #181
green-eclipse wrote: post #177

Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…

It went viral on Twitter this weekend, which is probably why more people are noticing it now.

Also never imagined "NO AI" to become a feature so soon.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Zambyte »

Kye wrote: post #114
aaarrm wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're saying you won't know until after a request is already sent, and seem to be implying that this somehow stops someone from learning if data is sent to the server or not. I think they've forgotten the original point of this thread because their replies are missing the point

I'm not sure. The impression I get is they're not aware that the tab isn't just a log of stuff before the page "finishes" loading, or not aware that the notion of a static page that can't make network requests at any time without a full reload went out with AJAX in the 2000s.

Serious question: do you think wireguard is an antivirus software? Do you think antivirus software does not exist?

Reading a historic log that shows you have been pwned does not prevent you from being pwned. It's the wrong tool for the job.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by Keyframe »

Melatonic wrote: post #76
n3storm wrote: post #2

Site and brand looks amazing and it's like something that really can compete with AE. Best of the lucks and I hope you will make it open source some day and make it work on Firefox :D

Nuke blows AE out of the water but is mainly only used by professionals

There's overlap in comp, for which people use Nuke. No one does motion graphics AND comp in Nuke. Closest would be Fusion and Flame.

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by fellerts »

green-eclipse wrote: post #177

Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…

If you see something you like that drowns in the new page, you can submit it to the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

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Post by flutas »

green-eclipse wrote: post #177

Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes. Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, a…

It's likely due to the time more than anything else.

I have no insight into HNs peak active times, but posting right before them greatly increases the chance of a post taking off (works on other platforms too).

My speculation is, more people check HN when first arriving at work to kick off the day, and that's why his post today is doing well vs the previous one.

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