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Re: Reddit Insight

#51

Post by foobarbazqux »

scholia wrote: post #50
foobarbazqux wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 comp…

Genuine criticism would simply explain the design cliches you didn't like and move on. Calling something horrible is not effective criticism. You're a horrible person! How are you meant to grow out of that? Comparisons to GeoCities and PowerPoint without explaining yourself are not doing much either.

The point of criticism is that you give something actually useful to the person you are criticizing. Unless your goal is simply to put down the other party. It's a cliche to just dismiss something out of hand, the same way I dismissed your arguments without justifying myself. The reason I replied like that was to demonstrate how fill in the blanks things were. You cannot do that with real criticism. For example, this critique of your rhetorical cliches could not be applied to the website in question.

Re: Reddit Insight

#52

Post by scholia »

foobarbazqux wrote: post #51
scholia wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 comp…

Genuine criticism would simply explain the design cliches you didn't like and move on. Calling something horrible is not effective criticism. You're a horrible person! How are you meant to grow out of that? Comparisons to GeoCities and PowerPoint without explaining yourself are not doing much either. The point of criticism is that you give something actually useful to the person you are criticizing. Unless your goal…

I was being brief. The average HN user is easily smart enough to get the point. And at least it addressed the point at issue, which made it more of a contribution than your content-free response.

By the way, you're also ignoring the original context. Anybody trying to offer helpful criticism surely wouldn't have done that, would they?

Re: Reddit Insight

#53

Post by gdi2290 »

ChiperSoft wrote: post #25
gdi2290 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are aware of a lot of the issues on the home page and plan to completely redesign it soon. However which graph are you talking about? If it's the post tracking we will definitely look into it.

I can't even read this on my iPhone. All of the text is forced into a tiny column so small that it wraps after nearly ever word. A lot of the text is pushed right off the right edge of the page. Please don't alter the viewport, you're doing it totally wrong.

We updated the landing page for better mobile support. Although we can't say the same for some of our d3 visualizations

Re: Reddit Insight

#54

Post by gdi2290 »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #18
gdi2290 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are aware of a lot of the issues on the home page and plan to completely redesign it soon. However which graph are you talking about? If it's the post tracking we will definitely look into it.

I had clicked on the rightmost tab (labeled Graphs) and shows the Subredit graph and then got stuck in the back page loop. Although I just did it again and it didn't get stuck in a loop so you may have fixed that one already.

Thanks for your feedback. At the moment I'm not able to reproduce your issue, but I'll add it to our github issues

Re: Reddit Insight

#55

Post by gdi2290 »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #46
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.

Constructive feedback rather than warm fuzzies are suggested.

Re: Reddit Insight

#56

Post by gdi2290 »

Tomdarkness wrote: post #20

Site was borderline unusable with Chrome on android. Text was overlapping, animations to display new text were being triggered after I scrolled past them and in some cases the text just flew in one side and right off the other side of the screen before I even got a glimpse of it.

We updated the landing page to better reflect your suggestions.

Re: Reddit Insight

#57

Post by gdi2290 »

visarga wrote: post #43

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.

Thanks for your feedback, but what you're asking for Reddit doesn't provide in their API

Re: Reddit Insight

#58

Post by foobarbazqux »

scholia wrote: post #52
foobarbazqux wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine criticism would simply explain the design cliches you didn't like and move on. Calling something horrible is not effective criticism. You're a horrible person! How are you meant to grow out of that? Comparisons to GeoCities and PowerPoint without explaining yourself are not doing much either. The point of criticism is that you give something actually useful to the person you are criticizing. Unless your goal…

I was being brief. The average HN user is easily smart enough to get the point. And at least it addressed the point at issue, which made it more of a contribution than your content-free response. By the way, you're also ignoring the original context. Anybody trying to offer helpful criticism surely wouldn't have done that, would they?

Sorry, I genuinely don't understand. How am I ignoring the original context (in my followup reply)?

I'll agree that my response was content-free. It was even aggressively hostile, and I could have been kinder about it. I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words.

Re: Reddit Insight

#59

Post by scholia »

foobarbazqux wrote: post #58
scholia wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was being brief. The average HN user is easily smart enough to get the point. And at least it addressed the point at issue, which made it more of a contribution than your content-free response. By the way, you're also ignoring the original context. Anybody trying to offer helpful criticism surely wouldn't have done that, would they?

Sorry, I genuinely don't understand. How am I ignoring the original context (in my followup reply)? I'll agree that my response was content-free. It was even aggressively hostile, and I could have been kinder about it. I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words.

My original was a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039938 and the context was that the site was being criticized.

> I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words.

Seriously? You must have missed Usenet in the 1980s.

Re: Reddit Insight

#60

Post by foobarbazqux »

scholia wrote: post #59
foobarbazqux wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I genuinely don't understand. How am I ignoring the original context (in my followup reply)? I'll agree that my response was content-free. It was even aggressively hostile, and I could have been kinder about it. I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words.

My original was a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039938 and the context was that the site was being criticized. > I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words. Seriously? You must have missed Usenet in the 1980s.

Oh I see. Yeah, I never really considered it. I like to think that we live in a more... enlightened age than when Usenet was around, and that was a genuine apology.
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