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Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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post #17

Like the idea, a lot, but I'm missing text. Maybe a small header text telling the core news of the item (and with more text than a typical tweet). And also articles instead of just videos? Or maybe the whole point is not having it? Personal preference of course, but for instance after clicking Russia-Ukraine conflict it doesn't tell me in a quick glance what the story is, at the left there is a bunch of meaningless p…

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Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#32

I'm having trouble viewing the page. I've successfully signed up and in, but the newsfeed hangs (blank page): http://api.grasswire.net/v1/newsfeeds All javascript etc. is also loaded succesfully. Any ideas?

Pushing up some changes now that should hopefully fix that. Essentially, the AWS healthcheck ping is timing out so it's removing instances from our load balancer. The streaming of tweets down to the client is pretty intensive and apparently a big bottleneck at the moment.

Thanks for the quick reply. It's now resolved for me (OSX, Chrome, AdBlock + HTTPSEverywhere no problem).

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#33
post #27

TypeError: Cannot read property 'left' of undefined at g ( http://grasswire.com/scripts/8ca0d719.vendor.js:12:1650 ) at Object.fn ( http://grasswire.com/scripts/8ca0d719.vendor.js:12:1242 ) at i.$digest ( http://grasswire.com/scripts/8ca0d719.vendor.js:5:17771 ) at i.$apply ( http://grasswire.com/scripts/8ca0d719.vendor.js:5:19070 ) at HTMLAnchorElement. ( http://grasswire.com/scripts/8ca0d719.vendor.js:6:28105 ) at…

That error is symptomatic of a larger issue (I think) which is that the page isn't loading correctly so it can't find a div its looking for which should be injected by angular if all goes right. We're looking into this and other issues though. Thanks for reporting.

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#35

This really needs a "disturbing content ahead" warning on the parts of the site that have graphic images. I really don't expect to see decapitated bodies when I randomly click a link.

In theory we aren't pulling in any content that qualifies as "disturbing" from Twitter.

In practice you're absolutely right. Will get on that.

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#36
post #17

Like the idea, a lot, but I'm missing text. Maybe a small header text telling the core news of the item (and with more text than a typical tweet). And also articles instead of just videos? Or maybe the whole point is not having it? Personal preference of course, but for instance after clicking Russia-Ukraine conflict it doesn't tell me in a quick glance what the story is, at the left there is a bunch of meaningless p…

Great feedback. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#37
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, I would keep tweaking the words if i were you to be exactly explicit/specific. eg: 1. 'like" is better than 'upvote' because it is clear that i am evaluate whether i like(re: enjoy) something, but what metric am i using to [up]vote on something? 2. "Reference URL" describes specifically what you want rather than some random URL.

Great feedback. But what if something is important but I don't "like" it - similar to how I'm not sure whether I should like a post on FB when my boss in unemployed. We've had that feedback too, like "This is awful and heartbreaking - do I favorite it?" (Favorite was the word we used to use).

Perhaps "Interesting"?

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give it just a second :)

I had to load the site 5 times before reading this comment and just being patient. Seems like a good tip to add to the onboarding tour.

Yeah, we're going to add a "tweets are loading" or something like that before they start coming in. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

#40
Frrole[1] tried a similar thing through their endeavor Frrole News [1]. Instead of manual fact-checking, they relied on Twitter data. They developed very advanced ML algos to separate signal from the noise. It grabbed attention with close to a million visitors a month, but ultimately shifted to another business model. Maybe you can get in touch with them.

[1]http://frrole.com [2]http://news.frrole.com/world

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