As I was looking into your source code, I found out that you use SessionCam to kind of record the user experience. I wonder, as I'm not using a low-end PC or tablet, if it consumes too much memory or has any restrictions of use that I should be aware of. I might use their product in the near future, would you mind to give some thought on this?
Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
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Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#72As I was looking into your source code, I found out that you use SessionCam to kind of record the user experience. I wonder, as I'm not using a low-end PC or tablet, if it consumes too much memory or has any restrictions of use that I should be aware of. I might use their product in the near future, would you mind to give some thought on this?
We should removed that in production. We had it in there so we could debug rendering issues that beta testers were reporting. SessionCam claims it has little to no impact and we haven't really noticed any. Overall it works pretty well. The main thing for us was that other screen capture services didn't work for Angular apps, but SessionCam seems to work fine.
Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#73As I was looking into your source code, I found out that you use SessionCam to kind of record the user experience. I wonder, as I'm not using a low-end PC or tablet, if it consumes too much memory or has any restrictions of use that I should be aware of. I might use their product in the near future, would you mind to give some thought on this?
We should removed that in production. We had it in there so we could debug rendering issues that beta testers were reporting. SessionCam claims it has little to no impact and we haven't really noticed any. Overall it works pretty well. The main thing for us was that other screen capture services didn't work for Angular apps, but SessionCam seems to work fine.
Thank you, ah, I forgot: really interesting app.
Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
Very helpful, thank you. I missed that alternative method of putting the CSS into your stylesheet when I initially skimmed the docs. Thanks a lot!
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#75I really like the idea of the site, it's an idea I've toyed with a lot myself and I think you've done a decent job but I think there are few usability issues:
Can't signup without clicking Login (slightly confusing to non technical users perhaps?)
The block layout gives no visual affordance to what is new / most active / has the most people verifying data etc. I can't see where the action is happening at a glance.
The text inside the boxes is scaled oddly and is actually difficult to read I find for the smaller boxes. I have to zoom in just to find out what some things are.
Videos have no titles. I have no idea what they're about without opening every single one.
I can't see who has confirmed the items (maybe it's somewhere?) seeing as you can sign in, being able to see WHO has confirmed a lead lets me check what else they have confirmed to help further solidly their authenticity (and perhaps expose bias).
Have you planned for people manipulating the site to mass confirm fake reports and bury legitimate data? Seems like an easy site to game with a few twitter profiles and a few accounts on your site.
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#76You should look up ng-cloak
Yeah, we have some ng-cloaks in there, but for some reason there's more to it than that at least as far as the page title and login/logout text goes. Thank you for the tip though!
You can use ng-bind instead of curly bracket interpolation. This will eliminate the flash of {{pageTitle}}.
Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
If you could let me if you're still seeing this issue, I'd really appreciate it.
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#78Like 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…
Jay Rosen's idea of "explainer" [1], implemented for instance by Vox's cardstacks, might help here.
[1] http://pressthink.org/2014/01/keep-me-informed-parsing-the-l...
Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#79Some comments and bugs:
- The videos in the live stream are all really unappealing (not the content but the way they're presented), there should really be titles or comments or something on them. - The tweets move too quickly and the flashing is annoying, I have to keep scrolling to read them properly - The content above the black bar also needs some context besides just being pictures
- Hitting the ESC key I expect to close any open models, but instead I get redirected to the front page - Tweets with ampersands in them show up as &
Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
If you could let me if you're still seeing this issue, I'd really appreciate it.
Haven't seen the issue since - keep in mind, part of the problem is that my work internet is slow heh.