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Rhizome Awarded $600k by the Mellon Foundation to Build Webrecorder

34 points by Spone 11y ago

civilian 11y ago
I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an email/username/password based off of two randoms words from wordnik. (My favorite combo was: townwide-giardia.) Would future users always get the same two words? Would they record the network request a couple of times? If a web game had an endpoint to verify a solution, but the webrecorder only ever recorded the successful interaction, would it give success to any solution on the webrecord? I suspect that a quick answer would be: "we won't mock apps with web requests", but that would painfully ignore how commonly 3rd-party apis are used. //edit also you can play with webrecorder here: https://webrecorder.io https://webrecorder.io None of my records are showing as Replays, but maybe that's because I'm an anonymous user.
thewronbiennale 11y ago
The first thing they could do with the money is hire a css expert to figure out why the date is upside down on their website. Very peculiar bug.
- blaincate 11y ago
  it is not a bug! it is a feature!
- smelendez 11y ago
  It is explicitly set to rotate(180deg) in the CSS, so it must be a stylistic choice!
- x0xMaximus 11y ago
  I'm the "css expert" you desire to know. No issues are open at the moment in regards the typography you're referencing.
  - civilian 11y ago
    Nice. I imagine this was intentional too? http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK Do your ad-buys suffer a loss in price because your logo overlays it? I had the same knee-jerk reaction as thewronbiennale but after thinking about it, I like it. It's like saying: "sure, we're gonna sell ads, but our blog still comes first." Clever.
    - TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
      I hope Rhizome archives this thread.
      - greglindahl 11y ago
        hn pages are pretty easy to archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20160105012618/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838985 http://web.archive.org/web/20160105012618/https://news.ycomb... Rhizome is working on more difficult sites.
mynewtb 11y ago
That's fantastic news, congratulations and make it rock!

34 points by Spone 11y ago

I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an email/username/password based off of two randoms words from wordnik. (My favorite combo was: townwide-giardia.) Would future users always get the same two words? Would they record the network request a couple of times? If a web game had an endpoint to verify a solution, but the webrecorder only ever recorded the successful interaction, would it give success to any solution on the webrecord? I suspect that a quick answer would be: "we won't mock apps with web requests", but that would painfully ignore how commonly 3rd-party apis are used. //edit also you can play with webrecorder here: https://webrecorder.io https://webrecorder.io None of my records are showing as Replays, but maybe that's because I'm an anonymous user.

thewronbiennale 11y ago

The first thing they could do with the money is hire a css expert to figure out why the date is upside down on their website. Very peculiar bug.

blaincate 11y ago
it is not a bug! it is a feature!
smelendez 11y ago
It is explicitly set to rotate(180deg) in the CSS, so it must be a stylistic choice!
x0xMaximus 11y ago
I'm the "css expert" you desire to know. No issues are open at the moment in regards the typography you're referencing.
- civilian 11y ago
  Nice. I imagine this was intentional too? http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK Do your ad-buys suffer a loss in price because your logo overlays it? I had the same knee-jerk reaction as thewronbiennale but after thinking about it, I like it. It's like saying: "sure, we're gonna sell ads, but our blog still comes first." Clever.
  - TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
    I hope Rhizome archives this thread.
    - greglindahl 11y ago
      hn pages are pretty easy to archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20160105012618/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838985 http://web.archive.org/web/20160105012618/https://news.ycomb... Rhizome is working on more difficult sites.

mynewtb 11y ago

That's fantastic news, congratulations and make it rock!