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Hacker News in real-time
- akkartik 16y agoThanks for trying it out! You may be interested in the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871
- jemka 16y agoI'm getting a "504 Gateway Time-out". You must be attracting a lot of HN'ers.
- akkartik 16y agoCrap, I wasn't expecting to be HN'd. I'd been experimenting with a lower polling interval to make updates less jarring.. working on getting into my server.. :)
- akkartik 16y ago(Update 7 minutes later) Should be back now.
- mryall 16y agoSorry, but still not getting in.
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- akkartik 16y agoEep, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm going to stop messing with it today. Try it now.
- vicngtor 16y agostill down
- akkartik 16y agoTry it now? Agh, it's super scary to see this story stop getting votes the moment the server tanks. When I break the server I get fewer votes, my story falls off the frontpage faster, and fewer people find out about it. Get it fucking right, Kartik..
- jschuur 16y agoStill 502ing.
- mitultiwari 16y agoTry this for the moment: http://hackerstream.com:5001/ http://hackerstream.com:5001/
- mitultiwari 16y agokilling this instance since the main hackerstream.com is up and running.
- akkartik 16y agoBack. Hmm, I wonder what the hackerstream fail whale should be.
- mnml_ 16y agoIt should not be
- dschobel 16y agostill getting: 502 Bad Gateway
- akkartik 16y agoBack. Seeking suggestions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421795 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421795 :/
- drjoem 16y agowhat framework did you use to make this? tornado?
- akkartik 16y agoNo it's just doing simple polling. There was a thread about this last time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302367 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302367. Since then I'm starting to see the use of a more efficient approach. If I poll more frequently there'll be fewer stories to update each time and people who're reading on the left column will be jarred less. So yes, I'm going to look into all the various polling approaches.
- Groxx 16y agoVery interesting... would be more useful if there were a way to filter it, however. And definitely lose the move-cursor if you can't actually drag the items to the watch list, I tried that a couple times before I saw the "click to add" text.
- akkartik 16y agoYeah, I'm not sure what the right affordance is to suggest that. I tried just a pointer cursor, but that's too noisy, especially in the presence of links. I thought it would be better to risk some confusion if there's learning at the end, than to just have people be blissfully oblivious.. Do you think that's a poor tradeoff?
- Groxx 16y agoI think I'd do a mouse-over effect on the container as a whole. Darken it, or something, and add a transparent right-pointing arrow on the right edge - tweak slightly on mouse-down, and remove it from the left column on mouse-up. There's no need to have duplicates. All of which will imply what it does without any text, leaving the columns and their titles to do the work, and the text to be explicit where needed.
- fuzzythinker 16y agoNice. No up/down voting yet?
- akkartik 16y agoYeah, I'm surprised nobody's asked this yet. I wish I could, but I'd have to either ask you for your password, or ask you to install a browser plugin.
- dhughes 16y agoHello World! ..oh, it's not this part.
- truthsayer 16y agoI think I prefer the 502 to real-time HN. I am already 3x more productive than usual. Congratulations.
- asymptotic 16y agoI like this a lot, thanks for posting this. However, I can't seem to access the actual articles by clicking on a post - is this just my browser or does this not happen? How does one go to the actual articles? And it would be helpful if each post had the title of each parent article associated with them.