I loved it, made me laugh, I need to share it!
Facebook's Lookback
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#52Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story of how we built it.
Please share on HN when you can!
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#53This is a very beautiful idea and it's brilliantly executed.
Kudos to people who helped making this page, it put me in a somewhat emotional state.
Also, this reminded me another page called "Museum of Me"[1], that was nice too.
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#54Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story of how we built it.
I sign up too for any info :) I'd be very interested the rendering stack you picked.
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#55Am I missing something? It's just 6 photos that I've uploaded, 4 of which are from the past month. It looks like people here are talking about music, but the page is not playing music in Chrome.
Yes, mine is just a few photographs on a page. No video. I guess you need to have a certain number of photos uploaded/tagged on Facebook to create a video, whereas I make an effort to not upload any such content.
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#56I haven't been over-posty on facebook for a while, but my most liked posts are the birth of my two daughters, and a picture of my older one that climbed up on the window sill. anyone find a way to save the flash video? usually you can view source and find it pretty easily...
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#57Nicely done - kind of made me realise how unimportant a lot of the stuff I post on Facebook is though! The photos were nice to see but all but one of the status updates were dumb things that only had relevance the day they were posted and had no lasting nostalgic value. I'm guessing this was quite a technical challenge to produce a 1 minute HD video for every user on Facebook and have them all available today.
If you have important, meaningful things to say, a Facebook status update is probably the wrong platform. :)
On the contrary, Facebook is a great platform for important, meaningful things. It's just that most people don't think to use it that way. But I also think most people want to consume important, meaningful things, which would mean there's room for important, meaningful posts.
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#58I haven't been over-posty on facebook for a while, but my most liked posts are the birth of my two daughters, and a picture of my older one that climbed up on the window sill. anyone find a way to save the flash video? usually you can view source and find it pretty easily...
If you open the Network tab of Chrome Developer Tools and start the video, you can find the request for the video and open it in a new tab.
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#59I haven't been over-posty on facebook for a while, but my most liked posts are the birth of my two daughters, and a picture of my older one that climbed up on the window sill. anyone find a way to save the flash video? usually you can view source and find it pretty easily...
Using Google Chrome, you can open developer tools, click in network, then, click in the "HD" button in player and find for mp4 file.