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Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by Smudge »

The demo is slow as molasses on my 2012-era Macbook Air (Google Chrome). Seems to have something to do with the scroll hijacking, which IMO is usually a bad idea. I wonder if there is a way to do this kind of vertical presentation while still allowing me to use the browser's native scrolling.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by stevesearer »

philers wrote: post #12

This looks nice, although I agree that I would find the scrolling difficult to put up with. An alternative, focused on travel mainly: http://maptia.com/maptia/stories/the-overview-effect

My travel documentation is incredibly fragmented between direct emails to family, photos on my phone, dslr photos, blog posts, tweets, facebook posts/albums, etc...

I like the idea of Maptia for aggregating all that into one place, but because of uploading everything everywhere for so long, I really want a solution on my own server and attached to my own domain.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by radiorental »

benologist wrote: post #35

Having 'bum' in the name's been mentioned as funny but it can quickly turn into a liability if work, school and profanity filters interfere with accessing and sharing your website.

I doubt that would be cause for concern, here's a very innocent subset of the 44 words that contain the letters bum.

album bumble bumblebee bumbled bumbler bumbles bumbling bump bumped bumper bumpersticker bumping bumpkin bumpy verbum

That said, they always find a way to build a better fool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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Post by benologist »

radiorental wrote: post #36
benologist wrote: post #35

Having 'bum' in the name's been mentioned as funny but it can quickly turn into a liability if work, school and profanity filters interfere with accessing and sharing your website.

I doubt that would be cause for concern, here's a very innocent subset of the 44 words that contain the letters bum. album bumble bumblebee bumbled bumbler bumbles bumbling bump bumped bumper bumpersticker bumping bumpkin bumpy verbum That said, they always find a way to build a better fool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

That article is exactly why the name should be changed .... the most recent example is from January this year at the ISP level. It's such a pointless risk to take.

    In January 2014, files used in the online game League 
    of Legends were reported as being blocked by some UK 
    ISP filters due to the names 'VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj' 
    and 'XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj' containing the
    letters used in the word "sex".[30]"

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by gkya »

Checked the demo, and... why the interference with the scrolling? I saw such design for first when Apple released their rubbish-bin Mac Pro, and later on a BBC article* , and the experience was bad in all.

* “The Reykjavik Confessions”, an excellent read BTW http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27290883

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by georgemcbay »

One of the only uses of this type of page scrolling that I actually think works pretty well (YMMV, I'm on Windows/Chrome).

Having said that the name really is so bad that it kills it. I wouldn't send a link around to people in the form of http://www.airbum.co/gmcbay or whatever a user url will look like. I "get" the album connection you're going for but the end result is in expert-sex-change territory as far as how it actually reads, I'd be too embarrassed by the "risky click" looking url.

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