This fills me with dread. The scale and glee with which we murder the planet is astonishing. We deserve everything that we get.
Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
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#23Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.
Not strange at all. Kilometers is a unit of distance that we are familiar with.
I have literally never heard the term “megameter” used in conversation and I’m pretty sure if you said it in any metric country you would get blank stares.
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#24Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.
We were surprised by this as well, but since one didn't exist, we started to create one! https://vendazzo.com/ We still have a long ways to go, but you can search for items and filter based on things like category and distance (if you are trying to shop locally). We're doing things on a very tight budget at the moment, so sometimes the site goes down, but we're working on it :) If you have any feedback, we would love…
Is it broken? It just says "An error occurred" when I typed "Plushie" and then "Fruit"
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We were surprised by this as well, but since one didn't exist, we started to create one! https://vendazzo.com/ We still have a long ways to go, but you can search for items and filter based on things like category and distance (if you are trying to shop locally). We're doing things on a very tight budget at the moment, so sometimes the site goes down, but we're working on it :) If you have any feedback, we would love…
Is it broken? It just says "An error occurred" when I typed "Plushie" and then "Fruit"
Yep, it just went down. We've been using spot instances, and those are hard to come by around Black Friday. I'll look into it.
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#28Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.
Kilometres is the 'native' unit for normal people thinking about driving, flying or shipping in most metric countries (obviously pilots and sailors use different units, like nautical miles, but for regular passengers it's km).
All road signs, the distance indicator on the entertainment system in planes, etc. are always set out like that (e.g. 1617 km to Cairns, or 11,980 km to Dubai).
From my point of view (whole life in a country that is exclusively metric), it would be really strange to see this kind of distance written in millions of metres or megametres. Would feel totally unintuitive.
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#29The bounding shape of Michigan is so fucked xD, https://elixi.re/i/mf4eb.png
I thought the same thing. I'm from Michigan and so whenever I see a map or globe I compulsively find North America and look for the hand shape. Was very disappointed to see that it is not present here...
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#30Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.
Despite using the same platform, no two companies setup their product catalogs the same way, from how multiple products/colorways are grouped together to metafields are used to communicate more nuanced product features. There's simply no way Shopify could hope to present a unified catalog given those implementation nuances.