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Tell HN: Something I made to see where something was posted first.
I've heard that it's pointless and the name is horrible. Although I don't want to give up quite yet. Ideas for a better name / to make it more worthwhile would be great. Thanks.
http://dexjra.com/where_first
- hga 16y agoA bit strange but promising. What can I say about a site where every couple of minutes spent on it I find something very interesting? Granted, some of those were tests of stuff I knew should be in the database, but it's still quite encouraging and the serendipitous discoveries were great. Don't give it up yet unless you have to!
- bseo 16y agoWhen I read the title I thought you made something that found the original source of a syndicated/re-posted article. Anyway, since you have a database of submissions to HN, Reddit and Digg, there's alot of interesting things to do. Off the top of my head, how about a side-by-side view of parallel discussions? EDIT, some more suggestions: Make a downloadable dump of your data at the end of each day. Would be useful for all the people scraping HN for their own purposes/websites. Twitter would be more useful than Digg, although all the short-urls do pose a problem. Your top15 page (http://dexjra.com/row_view http://dexjra.com/row_view) is strange. Why isn't HN there except the "First at Hacker News view" part?
- jacktasia 16y agoI used to have all three sources in the top15 and then some non-programmers said I should remove it...it would be trivial to add that back in. It's really about who I am trying to reach. Ideally I would have different types/sections for mainstream (reddit.com front page, digg.com,etc) and then computer people (proggit, HN, etc). I just wasn't sure which direction to take it. Thanks for your feedback. I'll make a dump of the data...what format do you think would be best? Thanks for your feedback.
- bseo 16y agoI'd rather have tracking deeper than the first page of each site, than themed sections, not that it's a bad idea. I wouldn't mind CSV or JSON data and I'm sure some people would prefer XML. Should be trivial to make dumps in each of those formats.
- shaddi 16y agoClickable: http://dexjra.com/where_first http://dexjra.com/where_first Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is either, but it sure is interesting. Definitely something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- pg 16y agoHow about upstreamist?
- _delirium 16y agoIf you have any data, I'd be curious how Slashdot fits in. Anecdotally, I notice a lot of borrowing in both directions between HN and Slashdot.
- jacktasia 16y agoI don't have the Slashdot data...but it's certainly a good idea. Not sure how I didn't take to get data from them too. Thanks.
- staunch 16y agoJust some domain ideas: firstp0st.com, subunderground.com, subspring.com.