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Kalimba - Embedly Colored Glasses for Hacker News

60 points by doki_pen 16y ago

tboetig 16y ago
Nice job. Looks awesome
cgshaw 16y ago
VERY NICE! Any way to make it wider or is it optimized for mobile viewing? Voting maybe? Regardless, cool way to look at the top links / questions.
- doki_pen 16y ago
  I'll be glad to add features if it gains any traction. The only reason I kept it thin was to prevent having to read long lines of text. I hate that. Maybe I can split it into columns or something.
  - vizvizviz 16y ago
    I agree with you on this - long lines of text are hard to read and break the reader's concentration. Narrow is good for reading. Maybe you could have another column where people could choose the content that they wanted to see? ie, the "Comments" or "Ask" pages?
cfontes 16y ago
Looks nice... But I prefer the actual text based one, more info per pixel. But keep it up.
gbelote 16y ago
This is gorgeous, nicely done. I find myself wanting a better way of going to the next story, because some articles are very long. Maybe you could add controls? For example, keyboard shortcuts or a floating "next" button (anchored with fixed position CSS).
- doki_pen 16y ago
  Great idea. I was also thinking of a way to collapse articles, but I think I like your idea better! I'll work on it. UPDATE: try j and k
tvon 16y ago
Very nice. My only feature suggestion would be a way to hide articles, something I wish HN itself could do but perhaps more important when articles take up more vertical space.
- deleted 16y ago
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l3amm 16y ago
I really like the clean design, but part of what i love about HN is the fact that you can quickly scan 20+articles just by reading single sentences of text. I would like this format better if it had some type of flipbook functionality mapped to the left and right arrow keys, so I can quickly run through more content.
- doki_pen 16y ago
  Try j and k. If you insist on arrows I can do it, it's just that they already do something(scroll if you have a really thin browser window).
puls 16y ago
Wow. The stuff that Embedly is doing is all kinds of awesome. I just wish Twitter would buy them so I didn't have to resort to manual hacks to actually use them.
jeff18 16y ago
On Mac OS X, spacebar means "page down" in web browsers. I was pretty surprised when I couldn't use it on this site.
- doki_pen 16y ago
  That's a bug. I will fix. UPDATE: fixed
mikeklaas 16y ago
Ironically, the one entry it completely fails at is this one.
doki_pen 16y ago
I just added two more hotkeys. Here's what we have: j or right-arrow - down k or left-arrow - up c - toggle top comment d - toggle article content enter - follow article link shift+enter - open article link in new tab Enjoy!
- mxavier 16y ago
  It's trivial features like this that seriously gets me to switch. The main reason why I switched to duckduckgo wasn't the privacy or better results, it was vi-like bindings. On that topic, consider this additional binding scheme that DDG uses. J/K for up/down highlights items (articles in this case). Enter when one is focused opens it. Ctrl+Enter opens it in a new tab.
  - doki_pen 16y ago
    Try it now.
- swah 16y ago
  The hotkeys aren't working for me, and I get two errors on Chrome 10: - Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://hn.embed.ly/ http://hn.embed.ly/ from frame with URL http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoqsZvSQSTs http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoqsZvSQSTs. Domains, protocols and ports must match. - hn.embed.ly:3Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method 'shareaholic_publishers'
  - doki_pen 16y ago
    Try now.
    - swah 16y ago
      Hotkeys working, thanks!
Evet 16y ago
Then, what is Tokyo Cabinet?
NicuCalcea 16y ago
I hear about embedly more and more. Good job, guys!
malnourish 16y ago
This is great, could see it be a good alternative if on another person's touch device. At first I thought, "Why would I want to bother with this?" but a few minutes later I realized I was ten articles down having read more than usual for one visit.
Vulture 16y ago
Could not figure what this site is about in 30 seconds, lost interest
- georgemcbay 16y ago
  Pretty much the same thing here. Here's my experience with whatever this is: Went to linked page. Saw a bunch of suspicious looking buttons that made me suspect clicking them might cause me to perform actions I do not want to perform on well-known sites I may currently be logged into in my current browser session. Closed page. The End.
  - arthurgibson 16y ago
    Those are share buttons provided by shareaholic, I imagine if the rest of the page was missing it would seem a little fishy.
- jarin 16y ago
  This is what I see in Chrome 8 on a Mac: http://cl.ly/0U3d2B0E3y431s1C270X http://cl.ly/0U3d2B0E3y431s1C270X
  - dschobel 16y ago
    ditto on Chrome 9 on OS X.
  - doki_pen 16y ago
    Strange. I can't reproduce. It should look like this: http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2476-129201145015AM http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2476-129201145015AM I'll see if any mac friends can reproduce. It may have been a temporary outage or something. UPDATE: I think my parser was breaking on something. I've added begin;rescue to tighten things up.

60 points by doki_pen 16y ago

Nice job. Looks awesome

VERY NICE! Any way to make it wider or is it optimized for mobile viewing? Voting maybe? Regardless, cool way to look at the top links / questions.

doki_pen 16y ago
I'll be glad to add features if it gains any traction. The only reason I kept it thin was to prevent having to read long lines of text. I hate that. Maybe I can split it into columns or something.
- vizvizviz 16y ago
  I agree with you on this - long lines of text are hard to read and break the reader's concentration. Narrow is good for reading. Maybe you could have another column where people could choose the content that they wanted to see? ie, the "Comments" or "Ask" pages?

cfontes 16y ago

Looks nice... But I prefer the actual text based one, more info per pixel. But keep it up.

gbelote 16y ago

This is gorgeous, nicely done. I find myself wanting a better way of going to the next story, because some articles are very long. Maybe you could add controls? For example, keyboard shortcuts or a floating "next" button (anchored with fixed position CSS).

doki_pen 16y ago
Great idea. I was also thinking of a way to collapse articles, but I think I like your idea better! I'll work on it. UPDATE: try j and k

tvon 16y ago

Very nice. My only feature suggestion would be a way to hide articles, something I wish HN itself could do but perhaps more important when articles take up more vertical space.

deleted 16y ago
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l3amm 16y ago

I really like the clean design, but part of what i love about HN is the fact that you can quickly scan 20+articles just by reading single sentences of text. I would like this format better if it had some type of flipbook functionality mapped to the left and right arrow keys, so I can quickly run through more content.

doki_pen 16y ago
Try j and k. If you insist on arrows I can do it, it's just that they already do something(scroll if you have a really thin browser window).

puls 16y ago

Wow. The stuff that Embedly is doing is all kinds of awesome. I just wish Twitter would buy them so I didn't have to resort to manual hacks to actually use them.

jeff18 16y ago

On Mac OS X, spacebar means "page down" in web browsers. I was pretty surprised when I couldn't use it on this site.

doki_pen 16y ago
That's a bug. I will fix. UPDATE: fixed

mikeklaas 16y ago

Ironically, the one entry it completely fails at is this one.

doki_pen 16y ago

I just added two more hotkeys. Here's what we have: j or right-arrow - down k or left-arrow - up c - toggle top comment d - toggle article content enter - follow article link shift+enter - open article link in new tab Enjoy!

mxavier 16y ago
It's trivial features like this that seriously gets me to switch. The main reason why I switched to duckduckgo wasn't the privacy or better results, it was vi-like bindings. On that topic, consider this additional binding scheme that DDG uses. J/K for up/down highlights items (articles in this case). Enter when one is focused opens it. Ctrl+Enter opens it in a new tab.
- doki_pen 16y ago
  Try it now.
swah 16y ago
The hotkeys aren't working for me, and I get two errors on Chrome 10: - Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://hn.embed.ly/ http://hn.embed.ly/ from frame with URL http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoqsZvSQSTs http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoqsZvSQSTs. Domains, protocols and ports must match. - hn.embed.ly:3Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method 'shareaholic_publishers'
- doki_pen 16y ago
  Try now.
  - swah 16y ago
    Hotkeys working, thanks!

Evet 16y ago

Then, what is Tokyo Cabinet?

NicuCalcea 16y ago

I hear about embedly more and more. Good job, guys!

malnourish 16y ago

This is great, could see it be a good alternative if on another person's touch device. At first I thought, "Why would I want to bother with this?" but a few minutes later I realized I was ten articles down having read more than usual for one visit.

Vulture 16y ago

Could not figure what this site is about in 30 seconds, lost interest

georgemcbay 16y ago
Pretty much the same thing here. Here's my experience with whatever this is: Went to linked page. Saw a bunch of suspicious looking buttons that made me suspect clicking them might cause me to perform actions I do not want to perform on well-known sites I may currently be logged into in my current browser session. Closed page. The End.
- arthurgibson 16y ago
  Those are share buttons provided by shareaholic, I imagine if the rest of the page was missing it would seem a little fishy.
jarin 16y ago
This is what I see in Chrome 8 on a Mac: http://cl.ly/0U3d2B0E3y431s1C270X http://cl.ly/0U3d2B0E3y431s1C270X
- dschobel 16y ago
  ditto on Chrome 9 on OS X.
- doki_pen 16y ago
  Strange. I can't reproduce. It should look like this: http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2476-129201145015AM http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2476-129201145015AM I'll see if any mac friends can reproduce. It may have been a temporary outage or something. UPDATE: I think my parser was breaking on something. I've added begin;rescue to tighten things up.