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Are we on different websites? I used the search box to search "cat" and the "enter" key doesn't work to perform a search, I have to mouse over and click the ma

Are we on different websites? I used the search box to search "cat" and the "enter" key doesn't work to perform a search, I have to mouse over and click the magnifying glass to get it to work. It takes about 45 seconds to load about 2 screens of cat pictures. I have to scroll down and then click "Show more" to get some more. There's no indication of how many times I have to click "Show more" to get all the cat pictures. Once I click "Show more" it appears that nothing is happening, but about 30-45 seconds later the screen starts blipping and then another couple of screens of cats start popping into view. Clicking on an image takes another 30 seconds and then it brings you to a slightly bigger view, and then clicking it again shows another slightly bigger view but trapped into some weird-scrolling viewer with 3 layers of vertical scrollbars. The back button is also broken, having to click it multiple times to escape the single-image screen. I think a simple pager with a fixed number of images on each page would have been a much better experience. It would also let me link to specific pages so I could share the page I'm viewing. EDIT: I'm leaving the post above but right after submitting it I felt regret because it sounds really harsh and I didn't mean it that way. I love the fact that the images were released and I hope government and private institutions continue to do this. I have very minor gripes about the ui but that shouldn't take away from the accomplishment.

lifeisstillgood 7y ago
On iphone, type "cat", hit enter key, see 2657 cat photos (possibly worlds smallest online collection of cat photos but still...) This is cool, and reminds me of the book illustrations and images released last month - there seems to be a corner turned in opening up collections, in as GP implies, knocking holes in the walls of the gardens. I am impressed by this too. Kudos to the big museum in DC. As for your experience, well perhaps a cat was sitting on your keyboard while you searched? They can be annoying like that
- yorwba 7y ago
  > On iphone, type "cat", hit enter key, see 2657 cat photos Did you actually see all of them? Using Firefox Preview on Android, I got told that there were this many results, but I was only shown a handful before I had to tap on "view more".
  - blackbrokkoli 7y ago
    There is no solution for displaying 2657 cat photos in a client browser in 2020 which does not include one of the following: * some sort of pagination, like a iterating "See more" button or the classic "Next page" stuff * fancy JS in the background simulating that process making the page much heavier, ruining accessibility and most likely the back button * instantly draining the clients monthly data, crashing the device, timeouting the server and making the infrastructure team cry, roughly in that order
crazygringo 7y ago
I kinda think you are? Zero of that is true for me, and I mean zero. Hitting enter searches for me. It shows results instantaneously. It says clearly at the top in big letters "7,636 results for cat" so you know that you can pretty much hit "show more" endlessly. Which instantly loads. And when I click on something yes there is a 2nd scrollbar (not 3) but it's only for the "object details" sidebar... it doesn't apply to the main page viewer part. And the back button works perfectly. Honestly it sounds like you just have a terrible network connection maybe, or they had temporary traffic congestion? Or what browser are you using... perhaps it's one they haven't tested against? (I'm using Chrome on a MacBook.)
- saberworks 7y ago
  I don't really want to put more focus on this but... I was using firefox on a new mac. Some extensions like ublock installed. I just tried again now with a different browser (latest vivaldi, no extensions) and it behaves the same (search bar, but only if you have "collection images" highlighted, enter key works as expected if you have "all" highlighted). I am still experiencing the slowness and image "popping" when using the show more link. I'm still getting 3 layers of scroll bars on the image viewer. The back button is a little bit better but of course since it's some psuedo-infinite-scroll when I click back I'm landed back at the top of the list with all my "show more" clicks undone (so lost where I was in the results list as is common with infinite-scroll and SPA). I can't dispute possibility of network issues, could be the site is being slammed, but speedtest.net says my connection is >300Mbps.
  - saystupidthings 7y ago
    >using a new Mac Found your problem
  - naibafo 7y ago
    I use Firefox on a Macbook as well, also with ublock. The site is definitely slow at the moment, but enter key worked for me and on the top of the page I see the number of results that were found...
  - 7y ago
blackbrokkoli 7y ago
None of this mirrors my experience. Sounds like a network problem to be honest, either on your side or server hiccup? Loading any images will have some inherent network load, sure. But I'm having no problems despite the decently shitty connection I have. Scrollbars are also working as expected...the 'show more' button has to be there in the end, you can't load all 3 million images at the same time (which would be the case using '' as search term otherwise). Sure you could do classic pagination as well, but again the real pain sounds like connection issues...

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

On iphone, type "cat", hit enter key, see 2657 cat photos (possibly worlds smallest online collection of cat photos but still...) This is cool, and reminds me of the book illustrations and images released last month - there seems to be a corner turned in opening up collections, in as GP implies, knocking holes in the walls of the gardens. I am impressed by this too. Kudos to the big museum in DC. As for your experience, well perhaps a cat was sitting on your keyboard while you searched? They can be annoying like that

yorwba 7y ago
> On iphone, type "cat", hit enter key, see 2657 cat photos Did you actually see all of them? Using Firefox Preview on Android, I got told that there were this many results, but I was only shown a handful before I had to tap on "view more".
- blackbrokkoli 7y ago
  There is no solution for displaying 2657 cat photos in a client browser in 2020 which does not include one of the following: * some sort of pagination, like a iterating "See more" button or the classic "Next page" stuff * fancy JS in the background simulating that process making the page much heavier, ruining accessibility and most likely the back button * instantly draining the clients monthly data, crashing the device, timeouting the server and making the infrastructure team cry, roughly in that order

crazygringo 7y ago

I kinda think you are? Zero of that is true for me, and I mean zero. Hitting enter searches for me. It shows results instantaneously. It says clearly at the top in big letters "7,636 results for cat" so you know that you can pretty much hit "show more" endlessly. Which instantly loads. And when I click on something yes there is a 2nd scrollbar (not 3) but it's only for the "object details" sidebar... it doesn't apply to the main page viewer part. And the back button works perfectly. Honestly it sounds like you just have a terrible network connection maybe, or they had temporary traffic congestion? Or what browser are you using... perhaps it's one they haven't tested against? (I'm using Chrome on a MacBook.)

saberworks 7y ago
I don't really want to put more focus on this but... I was using firefox on a new mac. Some extensions like ublock installed. I just tried again now with a different browser (latest vivaldi, no extensions) and it behaves the same (search bar, but only if you have "collection images" highlighted, enter key works as expected if you have "all" highlighted). I am still experiencing the slowness and image "popping" when using the show more link. I'm still getting 3 layers of scroll bars on the image viewer. The back button is a little bit better but of course since it's some psuedo-infinite-scroll when I click back I'm landed back at the top of the list with all my "show more" clicks undone (so lost where I was in the results list as is common with infinite-scroll and SPA). I can't dispute possibility of network issues, could be the site is being slammed, but speedtest.net says my connection is >300Mbps.
- saystupidthings 7y ago
  >using a new Mac Found your problem
- naibafo 7y ago
  I use Firefox on a Macbook as well, also with ublock. The site is definitely slow at the moment, but enter key worked for me and on the top of the page I see the number of results that were found...
- 7y ago

blackbrokkoli 7y ago

None of this mirrors my experience. Sounds like a network problem to be honest, either on your side or server hiccup? Loading any images will have some inherent network load, sure. But I'm having no problems despite the decently shitty connection I have. Scrollbars are also working as expected...the 'show more' button has to be there in the end, you can't load all 3 million images at the same time (which would be the case using '' as search term otherwise). Sure you could do classic pagination as well, but again the real pain sounds like connection issues...