Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit

Post by simonbrown » Sat, Jun 23, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

Post by scottmey » Sat, Jun 23, 2012, 2:55 PM UTC

xpose2000 wrote: post #32

nostromo wrote: post #23

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I'd recommend changing some CSS on the H2 elements. You have line-height and font-size both set to 15px, which gives the multi-line H2s no room to breath. I'd also ditch Open-Sans for Helvetica-Neue, which is more readable, remove font-weight:bold (it's too much bold on the page), and tweak the margins. Before: http://i.imgur.com/vaf7U.png After: http://i.imgur.com/a8bHS.png

Thanks a lot for those suggestions! That looks fantastic. I actually tried to get a designer on board to help with the front-end, but unfortunately he wasn't able to help out. So I did the best I could. :) I will definitely implement these font changes. :)

Post by scalable » Sat, Jun 23, 2012, 3:19 PM UTC

Post by saurik » Sat, Jun 23, 2012, 9:53 PM UTC

xpose2000 wrote: post #2

I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a small preview I suppose. I plan to port this to a Chrome Extension. Do you guys find this format much more readable than the current completed IAmA?

Post by pavel_lishin » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 3:36 PM UTC

Gnolfo wrote: post #30

pavel_lishin wrote: post #24

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Why were you scraping? They offer a pretty good API.

User comments, but going by users rather than threads. That way you could get a profile where someone posts, or turn it around and see what prolific posters existed in a given subreddit. The thing is it wouldn't sweep everything. Instead a user would only get scraped if a request was made to my app, and I had a tool that would go through a request queue (storing to my own DB) in a metered way so that reddit only expe…