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

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Post by thomasahle »

stinos wrote: 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…

Exactly my though as well, a 'quick catch up' for each topic would be very useful.

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

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Post by altcognito »

andrewvijay wrote: post #60
austenallred wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No I think it should be there. The people should really know whats happening and they'll not be ignorant anymore. They'll start to care and share. If some are afraid to face the truth , then let them be. But pls don't try to censor the news!

Labeling it is a reasonable and responsible thing to do given.

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

ertdfgcb wrote: post #63

Wow, this is awesome. However when I first open the page on Safari all of the tiles cascade straight down before rearranging themselves. It only happens for like a second but it's kind of distracting.

Thanks for reporting. We're aware of this. We had a lot of issues with those tiles in Safari and had to put in a few hacks to get it to work at all. It's definitely not pretty, but at least it eventually is laid out correctly. Previously, the tiles would stay cascaded straight down. We're looking into it. Thanks again.

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

andrewvijay wrote: post #60
austenallred wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No I think it should be there. The people should really know whats happening and they'll not be ignorant anymore. They'll start to care and share. If some are afraid to face the truth , then let them be. But pls don't try to censor the news!

I don't think anyone's suggesting filtering out that content, but having a warning that there may be some disturbing images seems fair and we will likely put that on the site when we have a chance.

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

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Post by austenallred »

altcognito wrote: post #62
andrewvijay wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I think it should be there. The people should really know whats happening and they'll not be ignorant anymore. They'll start to care and share. If some are afraid to face the truth , then let them be. But pls don't try to censor the news!

Labeling it is a reasonable and responsible thing to do given.

Ya, it's a tough call to make. Watching this stuff I've seen more severed heads and public executions than anyone should ever want to. It's brutal, but it helps you realize that this stuff really is going on. When we say "ISIS is a terrorist organization" everyone starts to yawn, because all we ever hear about are terrorists. But then you see them decapitate a 5-year-old? A public crucifixion? And not just one, at scale. Those little anecdotes do put things in perspective.

Yet my wife was furious with me the first time she used grasswire for those same reasons. "I don't want to see that" is a reasonable request. So we have to find a balance there - we have to warn but not censor. That's tricky when things are live and we don't technically control what others are posting - it may end up as a blanket "stuff on this site might be graphic."

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

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Post by austenallred »

thomasahle wrote: post #61
stinos wrote: 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…

Exactly my though as well, a 'quick catch up' for each topic would be very useful.

This is the number one response we're seeing, and it makes sense; we (the founders) follow this stuff all day every day, but it's really difficult to catch up, even though all that would be required is a couple of sentences. Trying to figure out the best way to do that without taking over editorially now.

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

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Post by Bahamut »

I notice that this site takes a bit of time to load at first - it shows uninterpolated variables in the DOM. I also notice it uses Angular - take advantage of directives like ng-bind and ng-cloak to avoid the flash of uncompiled content (FOUC).

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

Bahamut wrote: post #68

I notice that this site takes a bit of time to load at first - it shows uninterpolated variables in the DOM. I also notice it uses Angular - take advantage of directives like ng-bind and ng-cloak to avoid the flash of uncompiled content (FOUC).

Thanks for the feedback. ng-cloak doesn't seem to be doing the trick in some spots, particularly for the page title and login/logout text. We're looking into it.

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

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Post by Bahamut »

xwowsersx wrote: post #69
Bahamut wrote: post #68

I notice that this site takes a bit of time to load at first - it shows uninterpolated variables in the DOM. I also notice it uses Angular - take advantage of directives like ng-bind and ng-cloak to avoid the flash of uncompiled content (FOUC).

Thanks for the feedback. ng-cloak doesn't seem to be doing the trick in some spots, particularly for the page title and login/logout text. We're looking into it.

If it helps, I mainly saw it on the navbar.

Also with ng-cloak, the angular script must be loaded in the head of the html, or the CSS rule from the script applied manually in the stylesheet: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngCloak.

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