Introducing Paper • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by probablyfiction » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:03 PM UTC

kyro wrote: post #20

I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform. What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvio…

I see this as more an iteration than true innovation. It looks as though they're taking your existing Facebook content and putting it in a different wrapper. A pretty wrapper, to be sure, but in the end I think it will still be filled with things like "pg said If I get 50 million likes I can be on the front page of HN."

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by danielbraun » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:03 PM UTC

Great! Yet another innovative way to view cat pictures and selfies. It's funny how the users in the video aren't even reading their stories.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by stillmotion » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:08 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #40

Is this a native app or a web app running in a browser? I watched the video (at work, so without sound) and I can't tell. If its browser based then I'm extremely impressed.

It's native. Zuckerberg has self-proclaimed Facebook to be "a mobile company."

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by hoektoe » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:08 PM UTC

mayankkumar wrote: post #15

Take that, Princeton report!

if it's on paper, it ARE true

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by CrosseyeJack » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:10 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #40

Is this a native app or a web app running in a browser? I watched the video (at work, so without sound) and I can't tell. If its browser based then I'm extremely impressed.

At the end of the video it shows a Apple app store graphic. So I would say its a native app.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by plg » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:10 PM UTC

The underlying assumption at FB seems to be that people are interested in (something like a) magazine but one curated not by professional journalists, designers and advertisers but rather curated by uncle joe, grandma bessie, etc. I know which magazine I'd rather read.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by jccalhoun » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:12 PM UTC

When did "beautiful storytelling" become code for "a big picture near the top and then plain text on a white background?"

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by zyb09 » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:12 PM UTC

Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by thejosh » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:13 PM UTC

RyanZAG wrote: post #19

I'm impressed by how much CPU this website is able to use. It pegged all 8 cores at 100% while I had the website open on firefox/win7

Same here with Chrome/arch.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by hoektoe » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:13 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #18

gagege wrote: post #3

The video was choppy and froze part way through. Seems to happen to me a lot with these types of websites. On different computers, even.

I tried three different browsers. Opera was very laggy, Chrome just showed one frame and Firefox was moderately laggy. Resizing the tab helped a bit. Audio was choppy as well. My HW specs are far from low (though it is not a gaming machine either). I couldn't pause the video, fast forward it or even see any indicator of progress. I didn't even expect volume settings. Considering all this, the page is simply horrible.…

You didn't try IE6 0-o