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Open News Digest

3 points by ikariot 10y ago

http://vmanamino.github.io/open-news-digest I created this app using NYTimes API and the Guardian API. Select a calendar day and then search for news published that day. Still some design problems. For example, the calendar shows days in the future for which there is no news content. But I got the email service to work, so when you click on an article, you can enter an address and send the article info, including link. Appreciate some feedback.

sillysaurus3 10y ago
I like it. Some feedback in no particular order: - Initially, I wasn't sure how to use the app. Perhaps the main page should be the current day? - It might be better for the links to go to the actual article, rather than open a popup window containing a link to the article. I like to open links in new tabs, but the current design makes this difficult. - Pagination would be nice. 20 results are sometimes too few, but I'm admittedly a power user. - I'd personally love a site that shows a filterable list of all available news articles. One of the options would be to filter them by date, or to filter by term. It's probably a bit heavy handed for the interaction to be a clickable calendar. - On the other hand, a clickable calendar is a neat way to present news articles. E.g. you could fill each day with a bubble containing most interesting trending news. By the way, you may want to resubmit this as "Show HN: Open News Digest" with no text. HN penalizes text-based posts (like this one) to discourage people using it as a blog, so you're more likely to get upvotes and visitors with the other format. Best of luck!
- ikariot 10y ago
  sillysaurus3, Thanks for the comments and advice. I like the idea of the landing page being the current day. However, I want to use the pop up to give the option of emailing the article and to give a bit of info about the article before going to the content. I certainly want to incorporate filters. Thanks again
dang 10y ago
Posts without URLs get penalized so you should repost this using your link, add "Show HN" to the title, and then post the above text as a first comment in the thread. Good luck!

Open News Digest

3 points by ikariot 10y ago

sillysaurus3 10y ago

I like it. Some feedback in no particular order: - Initially, I wasn't sure how to use the app. Perhaps the main page should be the current day? - It might be better for the links to go to the actual article, rather than open a popup window containing a link to the article. I like to open links in new tabs, but the current design makes this difficult. - Pagination would be nice. 20 results are sometimes too few, but I'm admittedly a power user. - I'd personally love a site that shows a filterable list of all available news articles. One of the options would be to filter them by date, or to filter by term. It's probably a bit heavy handed for the interaction to be a clickable calendar. - On the other hand, a clickable calendar is a neat way to present news articles. E.g. you could fill each day with a bubble containing most interesting trending news. By the way, you may want to resubmit this as "Show HN: Open News Digest" with no text. HN penalizes text-based posts (like this one) to discourage people using it as a blog, so you're more likely to get upvotes and visitors with the other format. Best of luck!

ikariot 10y ago
sillysaurus3, Thanks for the comments and advice. I like the idea of the landing page being the current day. However, I want to use the pop up to give the option of emailing the article and to give a bit of info about the article before going to the content. I certainly want to incorporate filters. Thanks again

dang 10y ago

Posts without URLs get penalized so you should repost this using your link, add "Show HN" to the title, and then post the above text as a first comment in the thread. Good luck!