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I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by cpeterso »

redspark wrote: post #2

This is great. My wife and I are always trying to decide what is worth watching on Amazon, Netflix, etc. Added to my bookmarks.

You might like Rotten Tomatoes' RSS feeds for new and "Certified Fresh" DVD releases:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/syndication_rss.php

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by mfonda »

This looks like a great way to find movies. I was a bit confused at first about what the different colors (blue, red, grey) meant. After looking at the markup I came to the conclusion that blue meant positive and red meant negative. A bit later I found the explanation hidden behind the "Click to Learn More". There's no visual indication that this is a link, so I found it easy to miss. Perhaps it would be good to move the explanations somewhere not hidden behind a click, or make the place to click more obvious.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by benesch »

mfonda wrote: post #16

This looks like a great way to find movies. I was a bit confused at first about what the different colors (blue, red, grey) meant. After looking at the markup I came to the conclusion that blue meant positive and red meant negative. A bit later I found the explanation hidden behind the "Click to Learn More". There's no visual indication that this is a link, so I found it easy to miss. Perhaps it would be good to move…

I'd also recommend choosing different colors. When scanning the list, I want the hottest movies to jump out, while the less-good movies fade into oblivion. As it stands now, red is the dominating color, and my eyes are naturally drawn to the worst movies. If you want to stick with the blue, I'd recommend the same dark blue for "hot" movies, a lighter blue for mediocre movies, and the gray for the worst movies.

Nice idea, though; seems to work impressively well.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by weareconvo »

diziet wrote: post #18
weareconvo wrote: post #13

Just FYI, you're violating Twitter's API display guidelines. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets

I'm curious, what Twitter display guidelines is the author breaking?

When you display a tweet embedded in your page, you have to display it exactly as they do, which takes up a truly ridiculous amount of space and is intentionally prohibitive.

And as a sidenote, Twitter would very much prefer if the API would just disappear, as they get non-linear benefits from users going to twitter.com instead of accessing its services through a third party. Internally, it is spoken of as a liability.

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