Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
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Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#2I saw a similar application here on HN one of the valid points against this is that you cannot really parse the text through the image, so it becomes a barrier against visually impaired users. At first I was thinking it was going to be links to a bigger tweet or something similar.
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#3Hi, core team here from Squall. I'd be happy to answer any questions/comments.
Squall is a community-built product on Assembly. So each contributor gets some fraction of ownership, commensurate with their contribution to the product.
I'd highly suggest writing a Squall post. It's an easy way to say more on Twitter.
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#4I saw a similar application here on HN one of the valid points against this is that you cannot really parse the text through the image, so it becomes a barrier against visually impaired users. At first I was thinking it was going to be links to a bigger tweet or something similar.
One difference with Squall is that, while the post is an image on Twitter, it lives on as a text post on Squall.io. So you can always follow the link and parse the text there.
Also the images are highly legible. Check out this Squall for example: https://twitter.com/bshyong/status/573557768285732864
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#5I saw a similar application here on HN one of the valid points against this is that you cannot really parse the text through the image, so it becomes a barrier against visually impaired users. At first I was thinking it was going to be links to a bigger tweet or something similar.
I'm not up on the state of screen readers, do any of them look at the EXIF data? I don't think that would be a good solution and am not sure how big a comment can be, but I could be wrong.
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#6Stucked at "Posting tweet..."
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#7Nice work austin! (Fellow assembly user)
Thoughts: - I was wondering about this exact same thing the other day. Twitter photos have made it really easy to break the 140 character rule, and there are lots of wordpics in my stream these days. This seems like a brilliant hack. - [BUG] No space between "Posted" and "Month" - It currently counts self-views as well. Maybe remove them from the count? Should be possible as long as images are not on a CDN, I think
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#8Hi, core team here from Squall. I'd be happy to answer any questions/comments. Squall is a community-built product on Assembly. So each contributor gets some fraction of ownership, commensurate with their contribution to the product. I'd highly suggest writing a Squall post. It's an easy way to say more on Twitter.
> Squall is a community-built product on Assembly. So each contributor gets some fraction of ownership, commensurate with their contribution to the product.
How's that work, if you don't mind explaining?
edit: Nevermind, I found it: https://assembly.com/help/basics#how-does-assembly-work
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#9What is a "tweetstorm"? A rapid series of tweets on a particular event or topic?
Re: Show HN: Squall – A microblogging platform that replaces tweetstorms
#10Nice work, just read about your project in an Assembly email.
That said, based on all of the Squall posts I've looked at, I can only read a fraction of the image. The rest is obscured by Twitter.
Given this state of affairs, how is Squall better than just posting a link to a Gist, or something like that, since I have to click on the link to read the full post in both cases?