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Re: TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

#81
post #7

It took me 4 rounds to realise the time input was a slider, as you couldn't click to type. It needs some work.

Interesting, I didn't have a problem with that - maybe it's because my monitor is calibrated juuuust right so I can see the extremely-light-gray bar behind the red slider? Maybe making that more visible and making the slider not blend in with the red background of the year would be enough?

Re: TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

#82
post #42

Got one location that was 72 meters off. Not bad for a non-famous location. Some of the others like raising the flag over Iwo Jima seem a bit odd though... it's more fun if you have to look at details of the photo to guess.

Yeah, it was kind of scary when I got a photo from a non-famous location just a few kilometers away (in Europe). At first I thought this was a "prank" game where it uses IP geo-locations to present you with personal, easy to identify locations...

Re: TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on the photo. I had a photo that shows military unit marching between two of the great pyramids. Much easier to figure out a location if you have such obvious landmarks.

Yeah, since then I've got a picture of Nixon in front of the white house: only 12m off.

Hah, I had a super easy one in front of the National Gallery in London - 6.3 m off :)

Amazingly, though I got the year correct as well (1973) - total guess!

Re: TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

#86
post #59

Holy... I tried to not cheat and look things up until it gave me a photo of a billboard saying "31st academy awards". Then I couldn't resist. Incidentally i have to scroll right to press next round on a 13" laptop with the tab manager on the left and fonts slightly enlarged. Needs a bit of work on destop too.

Hah, speaking of web devs not testing on Firefox... guess what?

I tried it again and some images had trouble loading, but a refresh got them on. Now I've reached a point where the image doesn't load even after refreshing, going back to the front by pressing the timeguessr logo and pressing play.

Firefox of course. Some privacy plugins including ublock origin. No, not taking them off.

Re: TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

#88
Really liked the game. Think US, New York in particular is over represented, as are London and Paris and Amsterdam, but I guess you need to appeal to the expected audience.

Would be nice to see more of non-Russia eastern Europe and way more Asia/Africa. At least they didn't leave New Zealand off the map.

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