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Re: Reddit Insight

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Post by foobarbazqux »

scholia wrote: post #30
ctide wrote: post #28

Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.

It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.

Your criticism is fundamentally horrible. The whole rhetorical approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of a flame on USENET, just using more recent but equally mindless rhetorical cliches.

In fact, it's so horrible it makes YouTube comments look good.

Re: Reddit Insight

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Post by jaredsohn »

minimaxir wrote: post #26
joeblau wrote: post #22

This looks awesome. Next step is to make it "real-time." I worked for an analytics company and got to build some pretty awesome visualizations using D3 and one of the problems I always ran into was that while the visualizations are cool, you rarely get any actionable information from the charts. I feel like this would be a lot better if at the end, there was some call to action.

Real time analytics is tricky due to API limits. (unless you can accept a "real time" of minutes/hours per update) Example: Twitter's search API is limited to 15 queries of 100 Tweets every 15 minutes. Do you query 100 Tweets every minute, or 1500 Tweets every 15 minutes?

One other challenge is that some of the presentation (especially portions of the front page) isn't data-driven. It can be tricky to figure out which information to highlight, what the clustering topics should be, etc.

Re: Reddit Insight

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Post by visarga »

This is great and all, but if there is one tool I'd like to see is a personal data exporter.

I want to get all the posts and messages I have ever posted, going back many years, and beyond the 1000 cutoff in their comment history feeds. I'd like to run some keyword analysis on my own data, search it, access it however I see fit. As it stands now, there is no way to retrieve it.

Re: Reddit Insight

#45

Post by dmentat »

gdi2290 wrote: post #8
malcolmmcc wrote: post #6

> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens" That can be a fact. > Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit. Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.

Good point. We like to stir the pot a bit though.

By purposefully lying?

Re: Reddit Insight

#46

Post by ineedtosleep »

ctide wrote: post #28

Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.

Examples of "tearing apart"? At its worst, the feedback is terse. If all one wants are warm and fuzzies, one wouldn't submit here.

Re: Reddit Insight

#47

Post by babs474 »

joeblau wrote: post #22

This looks awesome. Next step is to make it "real-time." I worked for an analytics company and got to build some pretty awesome visualizations using D3 and one of the problems I always ran into was that while the visualizations are cool, you rarely get any actionable information from the charts. I feel like this would be a lot better if at the end, there was some call to action.

I've got an experimental, realtime comment search engine over at commentfindder.com. Perhaps some useful visualizations could be created off of it. Do you have any ideas for what kind of actionable chart would be interesting?

Re: Reddit Insight

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Post by AjithAntony »

malcolmmcc wrote: post #6

> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens" That can be a fact. > Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit. Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.

Yeah, there are probably more cat pictures just in the "If I fits, I sits" category, than dogs altogether

Re: Reddit Insight

#49

Post by MichaelApproved »

shawndrost wrote: post #37
scholia wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.

(For parties that wanted to downvote this comment more than once: you can do so by clicking "link", then clicking "flag".)

From your profile: "Cofounder of a dev training program called Hack Reactor"

Hacker Reactor is where this website originated from and you're behaving this way? You've been a HNer for over 2,000 days. You should know better.

Re: Reddit Insight

#50

Post by scholia »

foobarbazqux wrote: post #41
scholia wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.

Your criticism is fundamentally horrible. The whole rhetorical approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of a flame on USENET, just using more recent but equally mindless rhetorical cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes YouTube comments look good.

Rhetoric goes back centuries so it's unlikely I've come up with anything new. Otherwise, it contains genuine criticism that is rarely found in YouTube comments. The site is a patchwork of trendy design cliches that make the information less accessible than it would be in, for example, PowerPoint. And what we know about the mindless use of design cliches (see GeoCities) is that they date badly.

In sum, I think my complaint has more to it than your parodic reply.

There is in fact a more sensible response above: "We are aware of a lot of the issues on the home page and plan to completely redesign it soon."

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