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IMHO Reddit version feels better. It has both the hour as well as day sliders and multiple controls for the same.
That said, something about the Reddit one's approach to separating days and hours doesn't feel right to me. Two interfaces for controlling one variable (in essence). Copying that would be easy but it doesn't smell right to me though I'm open to opinions and suggestions.
Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame). By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions. It would need some clever use of color and exact path to make it legible. The user-facing purpose of such animation is to make it easier for people to perceive (viscerally) the bouncy dynamics of…
(and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame) Sure - it only started to collect data about 10 hours ago but that's certainly the plan.. though I've realized it's already useful for me to catch up with HN while I was asleep. Regarding animation, thanks for the idea. I'm really just a JavaScript "dabbler" but I'll have a think about how it could be done. Rather than just rendering a JSON file into HTML i…
IMHO Reddit version feels better. It has both the hour as well as day sliders and multiple controls for the same.
It is, but this was just whipped up in a couple of hours this morning to get going fast ;-) That said, something about the Reddit one's approach to separating days and hours doesn't feel right to me. Two interfaces for controlling one variable (in essence). Copying that would be easy but it doesn't smell right to me though I'm open to opinions and suggestions.
Alternatively, you could add a drop down to select the granularity and then use a single slider control.
Edit: This is based on just seeing the reddit one, BTW. I tried to check out yours, but it seems that it's popularity has flooded the server.
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It is, but this was just whipped up in a couple of hours this morning to get going fast ;-) That said, something about the Reddit one's approach to separating days and hours doesn't feel right to me. Two interfaces for controlling one variable (in essence). Copying that would be easy but it doesn't smell right to me though I'm open to opinions and suggestions.
I totally agree with this sentiment, but you do have two ways that people want to interact with the data. Scrub by day, scrub by hour, depending on what level of detail is wanted. You might need still two controls, but they should at least be the same type of controls. Alternatively, you could add a drop down to select the granularity and then use a single slider control. Edit: This is based on just seeing the reddit…
it seems that it's popularity has flooded the server.
Try again - it's not the load but something weird in my Apache setup (I'm suspecting Passenger) that causes it to pass out every now and then load or not :-(
Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame). By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions. It would need some clever use of color and exact path to make it legible. The user-facing purpose of such animation is to make it easier for people to perceive (viscerally) the bouncy dynamics of…
disclaimer: I have no association with ubounce.com, I just wandered on their page yesterday and those animations really stayed with me I guess :)
Which is a site I built about a year ago that takes a somewhat different approach to visualizing HackerNews front page data.
What does the pink background on some items mean?