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Re: Google Stories

#81

Post by rafaelturk »

IMO this just as evil as AMP, sounds silly but its a sign that Google remains dedicated to kill Open Internet standards and replace them with proprietary formats. Hopefully HN community will help to debunk this.

Another take away: Lots have pointed that the design is `silly`. Well I think is was intentional and in the context of what Google is trying to achieve well designed. The layout of Google Stories is a sign that modern users don't read anymore. All stories are pure images, conceptual images with little text as possible.

Re: Google Stories

#82

Post by echelon »

wisty wrote: post #43
stingraycharles wrote: post #24

Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT. What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat? I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel o…

> What are Stories? > Web Stories are a web-based version of the popular “Stories” format that blend video, audio, images, animation and text to create a dynamic, less formal consumption experience that goes beyond a simple play button. This visual format lets you explore content at your own pace by tapping through it, or swiping from one piece of content to the next. It looks like a format to let Google put small we…

Vomit.

The web is turning into Entertainment Tonight, the show my mom used to watch. Ads disguised as content.

Re: Google Stories

#83

Post by ihuman »

rafaelturk wrote: post #81

IMO this just as evil as AMP, sounds silly but its a sign that Google remains dedicated to kill Open Internet standards and replace them with proprietary formats. Hopefully HN community will help to debunk this. Another take away: Lots have pointed that the design is `silly`. Well I think is was intentional and in the context of what Google is trying to achieve well designed. The layout of Google Stories is a sign th…

> IMO this just as evil as AMP

That's because it is AMP

https://amp.dev/about/stories/

Re: Google Stories

#84

Post by mcintyre1994 »

searchableguy wrote: post #49
Fragoel2 wrote: post #40

I guess stories will go down in history as the perfect example of a feature that was perfect in a single product (Instagram) and everyone tried to copy it in its own product, failing miserably.

Instagram copied it from snapchat.

And it wasn't even Facebook's first attempt to copy it - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/snapchat-...

Though the best quote in that article is Kevin Systrom:

> Just like when Facebook invented the [News] Feed, and every social product was like, ‘That’s an innovation, how do we adapt that to our network,’ you’re going to see stories pop up in other networks over time, because it’s one of the best ways to show visual information in chronological order.

Re: Google Stories

#85

Post by lmedinas »

another "stories" wannabe... how creative. It seems for google it wasn't enough to have this copycat feature with Youtube now also Google itself.

Re: Google Stories

#87

Post by chaosharmonic »

ogre_codes wrote: post #57

Is it April fools day? What's next GitHub Stories? Stack Overflow Stories! Hacker News Stories?

Actually, VS Code stories. [0]

Also LinkedIn has them now. Which I would argue is still better than LinkedIn's other new addition, an entirely new black hole for event invites. As if the signal-to-noise ratio for these weren't bad enough on Facebook...

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bar9.sto...

Re: Google Stories

#88

Post by grawprog »

stingraycharles wrote: post #24

Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT. What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat? I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel o…

I clicked the learn section after, like what you said, learning nothing from the landing page.

After reading through the learn section, it looks like a clone of facebook or instagram's story feature or whatever that will appear on google search results.

At least from the info they've provided.

I've always disliked those...it's the one thing on facebook that shows the other person who looks at it at when. Something I've always been secretly terrified facebook does with everything.

Re: Google Stories

#89

Post by netsharc »

grawprog wrote: post #88
stingraycharles wrote: post #24

Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT. What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat? I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel o…

I clicked the learn section after, like what you said, learning nothing from the landing page. After reading through the learn section, it looks like a clone of facebook or instagram's story feature or whatever that will appear on google search results. At least from the info they've provided. I've always disliked those...it's the one thing on facebook that shows the other person who looks at it at when. Something I'…

> clone of facebook or instagram's story feature

Which Zuck blatantly copied from Snapchat.

Google's version should be called Gnapchat...

And what do we think? Google Graveyard by 2022, or later?

Re: Google Stories

#90

Post by cambalache »

When I see things like this I laugh and laugh and laugh about the naive view usually presented in HN that the "best minds of our generation" are all in FAANGs. Move over Peter Scholze, Terry Tao and Magnus Carlsen, the Google(TM) kids who just copied TikTok/Instagram have just arrived.
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