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Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by BetaCygni »

saurik wrote: post #7
daurnimator wrote: post #5

Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?

I installed the app, and part of the welcome tutorial was that they seemed excited about how you couldn't go backwards "so take your time". They advocate using it for "storytelling": it seems like an irritating medium for a semi-scientific slide deck.

Yeah, the most annoying thing ever. Didn't they ever attend a real presentation where people actually asked questions about things that were shown on past slides?

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

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Post by spin »

daurnimator wrote: post #5

Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?

To all the nay-sayers (sibling to this comment here), I just want to say: I thought the talk (er, slide show) was very, very interesting. I didn't even notice anything special about the slide-show.

It worked for me. ("worked" as in: made me intrigued about an interesting topic.)

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#43

Post by jpswade »

drivers99 wrote: post #9

I remember back in the days of HTML 1.0 or 2.0, they suggested not using the words "click here" in a link since some day you might be able to indicate other ways of following a link besides clicking (or you could already through non-graphical browsers). I think this is the first time I've seen "tap here" when I had to click. It was kind of a weird feeling, like I was pretending to tap by clicking. But my point is "ta…

The problem with "click here" was related to how search engines indexed you since they traditionally used anchor text to find the most relevant link.

I still find it hilarious that Adobe Reader is still #1 for a "click here" search.

I think a tap and a click is interchangeable anyway. You can tap a mouse.

Considering the website is called readtapestry.com, I'm getting the impression this is a fairly new concept that is still in it's early days. Once people get used to the idea, the prompts may not be needed. Perhaps it's just odd to us right now because we still use mice.

However, worse than this is the "do not break the back button" mantra, which this seems to do so well.

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#45

Post by mynameisme »

BetaCygni wrote: post #41
saurik wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I installed the app, and part of the welcome tutorial was that they seemed excited about how you couldn't go backwards "so take your time". They advocate using it for "storytelling": it seems like an irritating medium for a semi-scientific slide deck.

Yeah, the most annoying thing ever. Didn't they ever attend a real presentation where people actually asked questions about things that were shown on past slides?

Or, accidentally click too many times, skipping a slide?

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#46

Post by James_Duval »

myoung wrote: post #32
adamio wrote: post #11

What software was used to make those graphs? Or did I tap through it

I'm pretty sure he used Gephi - gephi.org. You can ask him though :-) @gilgul on twitter

There is also a course involving network analysis on Coursera, https://www.coursera.org/course/sna

EDIT: The relevance being that it involves the use of Gephi.

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#47

Post by PeterisP »

bluedino wrote: post #18
daurnimator wrote: post #5

Took me a while to figure out it was more than a gif.... on hacker news. Eventually I clicked and figured out it was a slideshow. Is it possible to go back a slide?

Get the app!

If I've got a shitty experience, then the solution is not "get the app", then the solution is to go away - why would I expect that the app is any less shitty?

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#48

Post by acheron »

jrockway wrote: post #35

Welp, I admit it. I'm finally too old to use the Internet. I tried clicking the "tap here", but that didn't do anything. I have a touch-enabled tablet, and I tried tapping there. That didn't do anything either. Then I gave up. Why does my VCR blink 12:00 all the time, anyway?

Abstruse UI doesn't reflect on you. (Though I laughed at the VCR thing. Now I'm wondering how many HN readers have ever set a VCR time though.)

Remember the days of Flash sites? "Did you click on the squid?" http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/03

Re: The Difference Between Funny and LOL

#49

Post by shortstuffsushi »

Mizza wrote: post #22
shortstuffsushi wrote: post #15

Le sigh. All of the comments are on the UX of the site, and not the content of the article. Come on guys. This article was really interesting to me (though obviously he doesn't get terribly into depth). I find data vis like this, whether it be super meaningful or not to be really cool. I'd like to see more analysis like this done with it.

That's because this is "linkbait". The poster is a founder of Tapestry, the site actually hosting this content. To be honest, I'm fine with this kind of submission, I think it's a better way to see a product in context than a "Show HN", however, some people may see it as being underhanded as it defies the convention around here.

To an extent, I see what you're saying. However, I didn't take this particular linked "tapestry" as a "join this site" mechanic. Well, I think the last slide said join or something, but I don't get the correlation at all between the content of that slide set and desiring to join the site. Is Tapestry intended to show data visualizations like this or something? I didn't get that vibe from it.

If people had concerns like these, then maybe I'd agree with you. If all people can focus on is the UX of a site, as they tend to with ANY post, be it Show HN or otherwise, I stick with me original statement.

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