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Any feedback is appreciated!

6nf 10y ago
Don't truncate the headlines so much please
zarriak 10y ago
I think the keypoint generator is well made, but the presentation has some serious problems. The next and previous buttons should not drift so far apart, they should be next to each other, close to where the next button is at the start. It would also be nice if when you went to fastnews.me/subject it would search for the subject. You could also add a recently searched items to the right of the search for the last 3 or 5 items. Using the website would flow better if you were to have the bullet points display on hovering over the descriptive text. The summary algorithm seems to work pretty well, so you might want to add the functionality to use it on individual subreddits, in which you could utilize the fastnews.me/r/ to access. Although this would generate some problems since most of these would probably have to be generated by a user request I think it would be really useful.
- salmaanp 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! search with /subject sounds like a good idea, i will certainly do that. Right now I'll add more subreddits and put /r/subreddit for later as that will require bit more resources. I'll keep tweaking the UI and keep your points in mind. Thanks again!
WillPostForFood 10y ago
I'd like full titles of articles, and drop the slide in animation.
- salmaanp 10y ago
  Actually some titles were really large, and they messed up the entire layout so had to put a limit. Will experiment with it though. Does the animation lag, or is it annoying?
  - Inversechi 10y ago
    The animation to me isn't required, perhaps a fade in would be better vs sliding from the side.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - dismantlethesun 10y ago
    I think it'd be best if you went with either: 1) Full rows per article, so you can put in a longer title and the design looks the same regardless of if you are on a phone or desktop. or... 2) Keep this layout, but use flexbox to ensure that the read more button is in the same location at all times. Truncate title length with ellipses, but let us click the ellipses to see the whole thing. As for the animation... it's problematic on larger screens because the content has a lot of white space on the left side, and everything is centrally placed. This makes the animation appear to take different times depending on your screen size (I know, it likely technically is the same time, but that's not how our eyes see it). Inconsistent user experience is generally bad, unless it is intentionally done. It might be better to have a side from the top, which would be consistent across all screen sizes.... I'm not sure how it works on mobile. Can we swipe left / right to see more articles? From the animation, it'd appear like we should be able to.
  - WillPostForFood 10y ago
    No lag, just seems like an unnecessary flourish. The page feels like it is is loading very fast, so I'd rather it be readable immediately.
abenic 10y ago
Clicking "News!" resets theme to light. I don't think that's intended.
- salmaanp 10y ago
  ah yes!...bug, apologies.
  - abenic 10y ago
    No need to apologize, bugs are unavoidable.
Jaruzel 10y ago
I like this, and would use it on my phone whilst travelling. However, I'd only use the Technology feed - would it be possible to add hard links so I can bookmark it directly - i.e. fastnews.me/technology ? Also - an RSS feed of each category would be the icing on the cake!
- salmaanp 10y ago
  you can now view fastnews.me/technology directly. RSS is next. :)
szafranek 10y ago
Cool idea! At the moment I can't see how old are the items – I really miss dates. Also, pagination with Next/Prev buttons is ambiguous. Replacing the labels with Older/Newer would make it clear, in which direction in the timeline I'm moving. I very much like the summaries. It would be great if they had unique URLs. This way I could share the URL of the story summary.
- salmaanp 10y ago
  Doing unique URL's will be hard, i am running only on a single instance right now. I will add dates soon, and change the button labels.
aendruk 10y ago
I'd love to see it served over HTTPS.
OldSchoolJohnny 10y ago
There is a lot of ancillary information provided when you read the news on Reddit. You can see a lot more information about the link, i.e. how popular was it, what do people say about it etc. That gets lost here.

6nf 10y ago

Don't truncate the headlines so much please

I think the keypoint generator is well made, but the presentation has some serious problems. The next and previous buttons should not drift so far apart, they should be next to each other, close to where the next button is at the start. It would also be nice if when you went to fastnews.me/subject it would search for the subject. You could also add a recently searched items to the right of the search for the last 3 or 5 items. Using the website would flow better if you were to have the bullet points display on hovering over the descriptive text. The summary algorithm seems to work pretty well, so you might want to add the functionality to use it on individual subreddits, in which you could utilize the fastnews.me/r/ to access. Although this would generate some problems since most of these would probably have to be generated by a user request I think it would be really useful.

salmaanp 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! search with /subject sounds like a good idea, i will certainly do that. Right now I'll add more subreddits and put /r/subreddit for later as that will require bit more resources. I'll keep tweaking the UI and keep your points in mind. Thanks again!

WillPostForFood 10y ago

I'd like full titles of articles, and drop the slide in animation.

salmaanp 10y ago
Actually some titles were really large, and they messed up the entire layout so had to put a limit. Will experiment with it though. Does the animation lag, or is it annoying?
- Inversechi 10y ago
  The animation to me isn't required, perhaps a fade in would be better vs sliding from the side.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- dismantlethesun 10y ago
  I think it'd be best if you went with either: 1) Full rows per article, so you can put in a longer title and the design looks the same regardless of if you are on a phone or desktop. or... 2) Keep this layout, but use flexbox to ensure that the read more button is in the same location at all times. Truncate title length with ellipses, but let us click the ellipses to see the whole thing. As for the animation... it's problematic on larger screens because the content has a lot of white space on the left side, and everything is centrally placed. This makes the animation appear to take different times depending on your screen size (I know, it likely technically is the same time, but that's not how our eyes see it). Inconsistent user experience is generally bad, unless it is intentionally done. It might be better to have a side from the top, which would be consistent across all screen sizes.... I'm not sure how it works on mobile. Can we swipe left / right to see more articles? From the animation, it'd appear like we should be able to.
- WillPostForFood 10y ago
  No lag, just seems like an unnecessary flourish. The page feels like it is is loading very fast, so I'd rather it be readable immediately.

abenic 10y ago

Clicking "News!" resets theme to light. I don't think that's intended.

salmaanp 10y ago
ah yes!...bug, apologies.
- abenic 10y ago
  No need to apologize, bugs are unavoidable.

Jaruzel 10y ago

I like this, and would use it on my phone whilst travelling. However, I'd only use the Technology feed - would it be possible to add hard links so I can bookmark it directly - i.e. fastnews.me/technology ? Also - an RSS feed of each category would be the icing on the cake!

salmaanp 10y ago
you can now view fastnews.me/technology directly. RSS is next. :)

szafranek 10y ago

Cool idea! At the moment I can't see how old are the items – I really miss dates. Also, pagination with Next/Prev buttons is ambiguous. Replacing the labels with Older/Newer would make it clear, in which direction in the timeline I'm moving. I very much like the summaries. It would be great if they had unique URLs. This way I could share the URL of the story summary.

salmaanp 10y ago
Doing unique URL's will be hard, i am running only on a single instance right now. I will add dates soon, and change the button labels.

aendruk 10y ago

I'd love to see it served over HTTPS.

OldSchoolJohnny 10y ago

There is a lot of ancillary information provided when you read the news on Reddit. You can see a lot more information about the link, i.e. how popular was it, what do people say about it etc. That gets lost here.