Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times • Hacker News Board

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by WhitneyLand » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 8:33 PM UTC

They are off investing time/money in bleeding edge tech, yet they won't innovate or improve the community/commenting system.

Discussion can be huge for engagement, and they have the reach and audience to set a new high watermark in this area.

Instead, you still can't even comment on most articles.

If anyone from NYT reads here I'd love to share some ideas.

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by aaronkrolik » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

WhitneyLand wrote: post #11

They are off investing time/money in bleeding edge tech, yet they won't innovate or improve the community/commenting system. Discussion can be huge for engagement, and they have the reach and audience to set a new high watermark in this area. Instead, you still can't even comment on most articles. If anyone from NYT reads here I'd love to share some ideas.

You should check out the coral project: https://coralproject.net/

It's the next generation community platform that the Times is working on right now.

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by pasbesoin » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

And this "open. ..." blog is behind the paywall.

Oh, well.

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

aaronkrolik wrote: post #12

WhitneyLand wrote: post #11

They are off investing time/money in bleeding edge tech, yet they won't innovate or improve the community/commenting system. Discussion can be huge for engagement, and they have the reach and audience to set a new high watermark in this area. Instead, you still can't even comment on most articles. If anyone from NYT reads here I'd love to share some ideas.

You should check out the coral project: https://coralproject.net/ It's the next generation community platform that the Times is working on right now.

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Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by egreene » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

WhitneyLand wrote: post #11

They are off investing time/money in bleeding edge tech, yet they won't innovate or improve the community/commenting system. Discussion can be huge for engagement, and they have the reach and audience to set a new high watermark in this area. Instead, you still can't even comment on most articles. If anyone from NYT reads here I'd love to share some ideas.

The Times is also collaborating with Google Jigsaw on an experiment to automatically moderate comments:

http://www.nytco.com/the-times-is-partnering-with-jigsaw-to-...

https://medium.com/jigsaw/new-york-times-and-jigsaw-partner-...

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by hackuser » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 10:19 PM UTC

I don't understand the NY Times' focus on future technologies which have little immediate application, over fundamentals they should (IMHO) have mastered ten years ago, such as making video and graphics first-class mediums alongside text.

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by exodust » Sat, Nov 12, 2016, 5:48 AM UTC

watchdogtimer wrote: post #6

FWIW, the 360 videos aren't working on Debian using Firefox-ESR (which is 45.4.0). :( I'm getting the error "Your browser doesn't support 360 videos."

Doesn't work on iOS using Firefox either. Same error. Oddly enough it does sort of work on iOS Safari, but the experience is bad. Works fine in Firefox 33 on Windows btw.

Re: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times

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Post by exodust » Sat, Nov 12, 2016, 6:29 AM UTC

Great to see 360 web video for once. I hate YouTube's "you need Chrome for this". My answer to that is "no Google, you need cross-browser 360 video".

I tried the NYT video on iOS Safari and while it worked, it was a bad experience. When swiping up to look up and down, the whole page scrolled instead of the video pitching up/down. The video was choppy too. I'm impressed they got it working on iOS Safari though. Apple would prefer you repeat the phrase "there's an app for that", and it's no surprise their browser well short of its potential for handling such things.