previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4919287
This was the beta for the December 2012 version - a viewer which let you browse the content from your online services in a single place.
Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! We used to support nested collections and 'single item - multiple collections' in the intermediate versions, but decided to disable it for the overall simplicity of the v1. We'll bring it back when/if many users really want it.
you won't be able to tell if they do. only the loudest dogs bark. if you cannot use a feature how can you know if you really need it. vice versa, if it does not exist, how do you know you don't "need" it. life was fine without smartphones and Facebook too.
True. But we think that overall simplicity (not feature completeness) should be the driving principle when you're starting out. Educating your users step by step. If you give new users Facebook in its current form, they would have no idea how to use it ;)
Re: Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Follow-up: On restarting the app, the item was in my inbox, and new items also went to my inbox. However, I'm still not able to use the + button - I assume that's (annndddd it crashed) there so I can manually add an item? What's the ETA for a mobile app? This is obviously a HUGE must ;)
Thanks for feedback! The fact that collected items didn't show up immediately in the inbox in your case is definitely some kind of the bug which we will look into. '+'/'-' buttons are actually for creating new collections and removing existing ones respectively. We will definitely make it more intuitive.
New collections aren't created when clicking on the plus button. When clicking on the minus button however, they are removed (so the minus does work). If you can't replicate the issue, feel free to shoot me an email (see my profile). I can give you remote access to see for yourself/test/debug.
Re: Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for feedback! The fact that collected items didn't show up immediately in the inbox in your case is definitely some kind of the bug which we will look into. '+'/'-' buttons are actually for creating new collections and removing existing ones respectively. We will definitely make it more intuitive.
New collections aren't created when clicking on the plus button. When clicking on the minus button however, they are removed (so the minus does work). If you can't replicate the issue, feel free to shoot me an email (see my profile). I can give you remote access to see for yourself/test/debug.
Got it, will fix it tomorrow ;)
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#35Alright, there's one more thing I'd like to say, feedback wise.
If I add a webpage, and that webpage changes url, or gets removed for whatever reason, that page also automatically seems to get lost in collections.me - adding a snapshot/saving of that page on collecting would be great.
I also tried doing this for an image on my server. I removed the image, but I still see it (which is good). I wonder however if the image has been saved, or if it's just a cache in your webkit viewer?
Ps. Please don't take all my feedback as negativity. What you've built is a great start! Well done.
Re: Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
#36Hmm looks interesting.
I have a question: does it actually download the content I bookmark or is it just links? For example, does it download the youtube video to my local folder or is it just link to the video and if I would want to see it next year, I will have to hope the video is still there?
Re: Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
#37Alright, there's one more thing I'd like to say, feedback wise. If I add a webpage, and that webpage changes url, or gets removed for whatever reason, that page also automatically seems to get lost in collections.me - adding a snapshot/saving of that page on collecting would be great. I also tried doing this for an image on my server. I removed the image, but I still see it (which is good). I wonder however if the im…
Thanks for feedback! Yeah, currently we are only saving the top 1440x900px snapshot of the webpage. As for other files, we store it on our servers as long as they're under 20Mb.
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#38Hmm looks interesting. I have a question: does it actually download the content I bookmark or is it just links? For example, does it download the youtube video to my local folder or is it just link to the video and if I would want to see it next year, I will have to hope the video is still there?
If the local file you're collecting is under 20Mb, we're storing it on our servers. Regarding youtube videos, as for now - they're gone from Collections if they are deleted from Youtube. We're thinking of doing something about it though ;)
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#39I noticed that Jolicloud launched something similar the other day if anyone wants to compare https://drive.jolicloud.com
Jolicloud is great! Collections (circa Dec'12) did the same, but as a native desktop app. Our current focus is not about bringing all your services together in one place (however, you still can do that), but to efficiently collect links/files from anywhere, organize them and sharing the collections you curated.
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#40Any plans to add Pinboard integration? (I reckon Pinterest integration would also be relevant)