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FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

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Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

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This site is crashing my Firefox Klar (ie. Focus) with: https://gist.github.com/sm4rk0/bc35eafbd516047b73d9dec2e2663...

Huh, i had not heard of that browser! cool i will investigate

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.klar/

It's using System WebView. In my case Bromite

https://www.bromite.org/fdroid

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#32
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It also happens to me. The graph resizes and reorganizes as the window size is adjusted, but it always shrinks less than it should. There's always a part of the graph that goes beyond the bottom of the window.

What type of browser are y'all on? I'd love to fix this issue. It would be a big help if you would file me an issue here https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues

https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/68

JohnFen's may more accurately be this other issue:

https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/69

I also made an issue for how it looks on Chrome in Android:

https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/70

On checking Firefox on Android, I wonder if this is the platform JohnFen was trying:

https://github.com/mcnuttandrew/forum-explorer/issues/71

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#33

Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments

Have you checked out arc?

http://arclanguage.org/

Hackernews is written in arc. I also think its interesting the the comment structure is a tree, just like an S-expression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#37

Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments

Viewing site on iPad, it just shows a stack of "LOADING" messages on the left, "Some interesting examples" on the right and that's it. Nothing happens.

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#38

Can someone explain what exactly does this do? I'm a screen reader user and it seems totally inaccessible.

It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either. A pane on the left shows a DAG, with nodes representing Hacker News comments extending from a central node. Mousing over a node shows the comment in a pane on the right. It's impossible to move the mouse pointer from the left pane to the right without changing the visible comment.

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#39
post #33

Hi hackernews! I'm the author of this site/chrome extension/app. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have/field any comments

Have you checked out arc? http://arclanguage.org/ Hackernews is written in arc. I also think its interesting the the comment structure is a tree, just like an S-expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression

I haven't! That's super cool!!

Re: FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

#40

Can someone explain what exactly does this do? I'm a screen reader user and it seems totally inaccessible.

It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either. A pane on the left shows a DAG, with nodes representing Hacker News comments extending from a central node. Mousing over a node shows the comment in a pane on the right. It's impossible to move the mouse pointer from the left pane to the right without changing the visible comment.

>It's not particularly easy to use for people without screen readers either.

That's very true. This hasn't really been designed around screen readers, making this type of graph + comment tree interface work accessibly well is a really interesting challenge!

>It's impossible to move the mouse pointer from the left pane to the right without changing the visible comment.

If you click anywhere on the graph then it locks the current comment selection. You can then click to unlock!

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