Another suggestion - Allow readers to choose timezone
Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
21–30 of 32 posts
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#22This is really cool, and seems like it will be even more fun once you've collected a bit more data.
One minor usability tweak: having the slider "snap" to the hour doesn't quite feel right. The end result is that the ball is never actually under my cursor, which feels broken. Might be more usable if the mall always stayed with your cursor, but snapped back to the nearest hour when you let go.
Nice stuff though - it will be cool to see how you evolve this.
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#23What does the pink background on some items mean?
The highlighted item is no more than 1 hour old, as measured by the time of its first appearance on the front page.
Highlighting to find new stuff would work better if each article could show up highlighted at most once. For instance "The Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release" is highlighted and marked as "0 hours ago" both at 05:00 and 06:00.
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#24If you thought this was interesting, you might also like: http://www.hntrends.com Which is a site I built about a year ago that takes a somewhat different approach to visualizing HackerNews front page data.
When I read the title of the post the first thing that popped in to my head was hntrends.
It would be nice of PG could spare a static page on HN for all the user contributed stuff.
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#25If you thought this was interesting, you might also like: http://www.hntrends.com Which is a site I built about a year ago that takes a somewhat different approach to visualizing HackerNews front page data.
When I read the title of the post the first thing that popped in to my head was hntrends. It would be nice of PG could spare a static page on HN for all the user contributed stuff.
The site below is a nice alternative until then
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#26If you thought this was interesting, you might also like: http://www.hntrends.com Which is a site I built about a year ago that takes a somewhat different approach to visualizing HackerNews front page data.
I like it. But, is it just me or it takes ~15 seconds to load!
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#27Would be nice to see the articles coloured by the change in their movement since last version, one colour for rising another for falling.
...reword: some way to quickly perceive each entry's change from the previous time step. Maybe color? Separate the requirement from the solution.
Good idea in political, corporate, America.
Here on the internet, you can go ahead and speak your mind.
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
...reword: some way to quickly perceive each entry's change from the previous time step. Maybe color? Separate the requirement from the solution.
Good idea in political, corporate, America. Here on the internet, you can go ahead and speak your mind.
If only you had noticed that the other response to the comment confused the requirement...
good luck!
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The highlighted item is no more than 1 hour old, as measured by the time of its first appearance on the front page.
Highlighting to find new stuff would work better if each article could show up highlighted at most once. For instance "The Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release" is highlighted and marked as "0 hours ago" both at 05:00 and 06:00.
This is only a temporary hack. I only added "new" detection after it had been going several hours but once enough time has passed, I'll remove the hack based on hours under 2.
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#30Oh, 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…
Allright, I tossed in the animation. Check it out. :)
http://github.com/blaines/hackerslide
Quicksand + CSS3