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Pro tip: You can navigate through the articles using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Do you guys have any suggestions as to how to make this more clear? (We al
by dshipper 16y ago
Pro tip: You can navigate through the articles using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Do you guys have any suggestions as to how to make this more clear? (We already say to do so on the loading screen but feel not many people pick up on it)
- revorad 16y agoJust keep displaying a small "use arrow keys to navigate" on top of the article. When a user first logs in, show some interesting article already instead of just the "your content is loading" message.
- dshipper 16y agoInteresting. We were thinking about popping up a lightbox for a new user to remind them if they didn't use the keys. Do you think that would be too intrusive? We definitely considered doing that, the biggest question that we ran into was how to select the article. We thought we could get something random from the database, calculate it based on what your friends are interested in, or calculate it based on what's trending overall. Because we have been coding for a long time (it's 7 AM and we've been up all night for the 3rd straight night) we just decided to leave it with some instructions and worry about how to do that later. We'll definitely get on it right now, it's a great suggestion.
- revorad 16y agoI hate lightboxes. I think dialog boxes are the worst part of desktop apps that we have imported to web apps. How to select an article? Just choose one you like. An old one from the best of HN? Or something from here - http://longreads.com http://longreads.com. Don't overengineer.
- dshipper 16y agoAwesome advice. Will keep that in mind thanks.
- Bogdanp 16y agoIt would be great if you could also bind the 'h' and 'l' keys to navigation (for those of us who dislike moving our hands off the home row).