Page loaded really slowly for me (and I'm not on a slow connection!). Got bored after a few seconds and left.
same here, although I have a few extensions on chromium that might tamper with the loading process.
Show HN: Piste.io
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#42Hard work and good job. enjoyed the experience. PS: After 20 seconds of looking at panorama view, I started hearing a wind like sound, and was just thinking "oh nice, let me hear that", and then realised that it was my macbook air's fan cooling the cpu.
Glad you like it.
The code itself is optimized, I just have a background worker thread finding primes to get the fans spinning.
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#43How is this supposed to work? The camera seems to follow a randomly generated swinging motion down the hill. Is this to see the mountainside for skiing purposes? Looks well built, and I really like the 3D models of these mountains.
When going down a piste, the side to side motion is to simulate the skiing motion. I agree it could be improved, as it isn't mathematically correct, although not having felt like you were riding on rails.
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#44I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX:
- Takes a long time to load
- Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop
- I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help.
- Some instructions on how to use it would be great.
- As they are, the camera and style squares appear to be clickable buttons instead of just headings.
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#45I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX: - Takes a long time to load - Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop - I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help. - Some instructions on how to use it would be great. - As they are, the camera and style squares appear…
Thanks for the feedback. Lots of good points.
The loading time is due to it having to load the elevation data, although it will be cached on subsequent visits, and it is further slowed down by client side processing, which is currently done in JS, but in the future will be hardware accelerated
As for the controls, do you find it more difficult than something like Google Earth? I was hoping that people used to that would be at home with the controls. What exactly would you expect the arrow keys to do? Simulate a mouse movement in that direction by a constant?
As for instructions, were there any parts in particular that were tough to figure out. I think one needs to strike a balance between having no hints and pointing out the blatantly obvious.
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#46Thanks for crashing my browser! Maybe try testing out with slower machines too and not make this kind of crap javascript. Took 30 seconds out of my life. Running Firefox 34 on a Mac Mini 2 GHz.
maybe u should go back to 2006
Interesting to see you created this account just to reply to my comment.
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#47I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX: - Takes a long time to load - Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop - I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help. - Some instructions on how to use it would be great. - As they are, the camera and style squares appear…
Thanks for the feedback. Lots of good points. The loading time is due to it having to load the elevation data, although it will be cached on subsequent visits, and it is further slowed down by client side processing, which is currently done in JS, but in the future will be hardware accelerated As for the controls, do you find it more difficult than something like Google Earth? I was hoping that people used to that wo…
Agreed with the OP, without even knowing what this site is for and just having a loading spinner, I ended up closing the tab after it was taking a long time to do anything and was slowing down my browser. If you could load in something incrementally it would go a long way.
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#48I also couldn't get it to load on my fast MBP, slowish connection. I ran my timeline profiler in Safari and it looked like a Twitter plugin was causing insane slowness.
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#49FeedBack: I loaded it up, it was slow. Had problems with noscript but that's what I get for running with JS disabled.
Forwarded it to my co-worker who is really big into snowboarding. He's was very impressed. Only complaint is he wants to see it done for more local hills.
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#50Hard work and good job. enjoyed the experience. PS: After 20 seconds of looking at panorama view, I started hearing a wind like sound, and was just thinking "oh nice, let me hear that", and then realised that it was my macbook air's fan cooling the cpu.
Glad you like it. The code itself is optimized, I just have a background worker thread finding primes to get the fans spinning.
I... can't... quite tell... you're joking, right? Right???