Airbum – A simple and elegant online album • Hacker News Board

Please don't mess with my ability to scroll through content. Additionally, having content in between the nav breaks is infuriating, and my scroll bar is gone.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by falcolas » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

Holding the "down" arrow blows up the animation pretty good. I think that your implementation of the scrolling for Mac mice is pretty solid so far.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by habosa » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 3:40 PM UTC

The design is great and this is a really nice way to display a travel album, but the experience is not there. I'm sure when testing over a local network this is fast but even over my 30mbps connection I had to wait a long time for all of the images to load. That's not normally a problem but the page seemed totally 'frozen' until about half of the pictures had loaded, and scrolling was full of jank until it was totally loaded.

Is there some way you could put placeholders in for the images while they load so that I can scroll around? If I wasn't waiting to see the demo specifically I would have assumed the page was broken and clicked out.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 3:43 PM UTC

As a Brit, the name makes me giggle :-) (The equivalent US interpretation of how it reads to me being, perhaps, 'airfanny').

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by trevyn » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 3:45 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #8

As a Brit, the name makes me giggle :-) (The equivalent US interpretation of how it reads to me being, perhaps, 'airfanny').

Oh, I interpreted it as the UberX version of Airbnb. :D

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Post by techwizrd » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 3:46 PM UTC

habosa wrote: post #7

The design is great and this is a really nice way to display a travel album, but the experience is not there. I'm sure when testing over a local network this is fast but even over my 30mbps connection I had to wait a long time for all of the images to load. That's not normally a problem but the page seemed totally 'frozen' until about half of the pictures had loaded, and scrolling was full of jank until it was totall…

I'm having the same issue. The images are taking a very long time to load which freezes scrolling (although I can still hover over the pips on the side). I don't know if the problems are due to HN's load or a weak server.

Either way, I really like the concept.