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Show HN: We made a self-categorizing image board
- Monkeyget 15y agoCould you give more information? It's pretty empty and I don't even know what it's supposed to do.
- songrabbit 15y agoSo the screen you see upon loading at the tags associated with the most recent posts that people have made. If you create a post you self-tag it using the #tag method. Choose a tag to explore all posts under that category. Posts without any #tag in them get assigned noTag
- utunga 15y agoafter initially being totally bemused - 'what is this?','how do i get it to do something'? 'what am i supposed to click?' .. i returned here, read this comment and then after about 3-4 clicks I finally got it to actually deliver what i am after, which is actually seeing some content. if this is about sharing / showing people some content - show people some content ! right from the beginning! then let them filter or whatever to dig in deeper and start posting their own etc
- songrabbit 15y agogood point, it seems like you and akkartik both got it after spending a minute digging around. I'll update it to have some content open on page load
- songrabbit 15y agoThe idea was to try to create something that lives in the space between twitter and 4chan. You have the basic functionality of an image board, but it is much more free form and lends itself to short form messages
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- rorrr 15y agoThe UI doesn't make any sense.
- songrabbit 15y agoIs the layout, or the lack of instructions? I thought the tag->thread->responses would be somewhat intuitive
- akkartik 15y agoThe fading rabbit misleads the eyes. At the start I didn't even notice there were those two tiny lines of text (the threads) way above it.
- songrabbit 15y agoIs it any more apparent once the categories have more items (for example the noTag category)? What changes would you suggest?
- akkartik 15y agoYeah. Already it's hard to remember why it wasn't clear. Maybe you should open up an example of thread and responses. Have the app show stuff to engage with right from the first page load, don't rely on people to click twice to see how it works. There's 12 things to click on the first view. Don't rely on them clicking the right thing. Edit: What's that rabbit for, anyway? Why is the header/logo/mascot on the bottom right? Why does shit overlay it without covering it?
- songrabbit 15y agoThanks for the input. I'm going to change it so that some content is already open on page load, hopefully that will be a better starting point. The overlay is so that you can still tell something is loading with the ajax, but you are right, that might be a bit much, especially for the pictures
- apu 15y agoWhat do you mean by self-categorizing?
- songrabbit 15y agoUser's tag their own post, creating a dynamic list of categories on the left side of the screen
- whisprabbit 15y agosweet gifs
- mnutt 15y agoAre there any plans for (pseudonymous) identity?
- songrabbit 15y agoAt the moment no. Out of curiosity, would you find the project more compelling if there was some form of identity?
- cefarix 15y agoI made some posts in Unicode and the tags got converted to numbers and the posts are blank :(
- songrabbit 15y agoJust saw this. I had some protection since hn took down the last site I posted, but I'll work on updating.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoPlease study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement. All the content is siloed behind js, and there's no way for anyone to write hypertext which references it.
- ruckusing 15y agoCool. But I cannot figure out what to do. Its like Color.