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Tell HN: I've made Quotty.com for quoting articles
This is my weekend project, which I'd like to share.
I've noticed how often links on HN get comments, that summarize the article, so that others don't waste their time. In fact, I always read comments first and look for such short summaries. So, I thought it'd be nice to have a place, where you can store a couple of sentences from the original article which best characterize it and then share a short link to this quote on twitter or elsewhere, instead of a direct link to the long original article.
quotty.com
- snitko 17y agoclickable: http://quotty.com http://quotty.com
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoAppears to falsely not recognise quotes as coming from the page of origin. This may be something to do with stripping tags and formatting? It worked eventually when I chose a short plain section but not when the quote section had links or em tags or headers or whatever. What's the point of the site? Edit: don't get me wrong it looks nice, works reasonably; I just don't get why I'd use it. Also on a point of use, the "thanks for your voice" - is that a typo? I'd put it as a flag on the heart itself so that the "please upvote" flag simply changes to a "thankyou" when you click". Lastly upvotes use an up arrow, favorites (sic) use a heart, which is it?
- snitko 17y agoI think the reason the quote didn't match at first is because some websites use weird special symbols, which I wasn't able to strip yet. I must admit that the parser is not all that smart right now. But it definitely should strip all the tags. About the "heart" ico - you're probably right, I just thought that "heart" means "I loved that quote, i.e. I'm upvoting it". Thanks for the reply.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoMake the text on the heart popup "I loved that quote" (or "liked" is probably better if you want people to vote more). The page was a simple WP page with no special symbols, UTF-8 encoding.
- iterationx 17y agoI can't easily read fonts that are that big.