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ShowHN: I built a Reddit.com Realtime mashup

JonathanBouman 15y ago
Subreddit example: http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=pics/new http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=pics/new Everything is clientside javascript. Amazon Cloudfront is used as hosting (See http://aaronblohowiak.com/using-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-to-host-a-stat http://aaronblohowiak.com/using-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-to-...). So scalability issues are impossible. Works great on iPad/iPhone/Android. Any feedback?
- angryasian 15y ago
  looks down to me, I just see the Loading new posts ? is it slow ?
  - JonathanBouman 15y ago
    Could be that your connection is a bit slow. It preloads the images (in order to fetch width & height) before it renders them. On slow 3G connections it could take a minute. I advice you to use wifi. Does it work after F5?
nandemo 15y ago
Cool. Although my first reaction was surprise at how awful the default front page of reddit is (I do use reddit but I don't subscribe to the pic- and meme-heavy subreddits). How about text snippets for the text links?
- deleted 15y ago
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- JonathanBouman 15y ago
  Just pushed out a new version with support for text snippets! Expect it within 10 minutes :) You like it?
  - nandemo 15y ago
    That was quick! But... it's not working here. What I meant was, instead of just the title, also output a snippet of the linked page (similar to what Facebook does when you post a link).
    - JonathanBouman 15y ago
      Mmm, I need to rely on external JSONp services, since I've to code everything clientside to keep it scalable. I'm not sure how I could fix this, anyone an idea?
aespinoza 15y ago
Very cool!!!
- JonathanBouman 15y ago
  Thanks! Feel free to suggest new features :)
ktsmith 15y ago
The new content pushing in from the top displaces content you may currently be looking at. If you are reading a text snippet, or starting an embedded video and new content comes in it's easy to lose where you were as the content pushes down the page and changes the columns as well.
- JonathanBouman 15y ago
  That is true. I haven't found an elegant solution for that, do you've a good idea? I thought about only loading new content when the 'scrolldit' logo is visible for a user.
  - ktsmith 15y ago
    Perhaps you could preload the content but not push it into the page. Then provide some kind of a visual indicator that new content is available. A slider on the side of the page that grows with the current position moving down the bar as more new content is available. You could then push that content into the page as they scroll up from the current position. This gives the user the benefit of knowing that there's new content available without the page shifting around the content they are viewing.
    - JonathanBouman 15y ago
      Thanks ktsmith! Will note it down and see what's possible.

Subreddit example: http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=pics/new http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=pics/new Everything is clientside javascript. Amazon Cloudfront is used as hosting (See http://aaronblohowiak.com/using-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-to-host-a-stat http://aaronblohowiak.com/using-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-to-...). So scalability issues are impossible. Works great on iPad/iPhone/Android. Any feedback?

angryasian 15y ago
looks down to me, I just see the Loading new posts ? is it slow ?
- JonathanBouman 15y ago
  Could be that your connection is a bit slow. It preloads the images (in order to fetch width & height) before it renders them. On slow 3G connections it could take a minute. I advice you to use wifi. Does it work after F5?

nandemo 15y ago

Cool. Although my first reaction was surprise at how awful the default front page of reddit is (I do use reddit but I don't subscribe to the pic- and meme-heavy subreddits). How about text snippets for the text links?

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JonathanBouman 15y ago
Just pushed out a new version with support for text snippets! Expect it within 10 minutes :) You like it?
- nandemo 15y ago
  That was quick! But... it's not working here. What I meant was, instead of just the title, also output a snippet of the linked page (similar to what Facebook does when you post a link).
  - JonathanBouman 15y ago
    Mmm, I need to rely on external JSONp services, since I've to code everything clientside to keep it scalable. I'm not sure how I could fix this, anyone an idea?

aespinoza 15y ago

Very cool!!!

JonathanBouman 15y ago
Thanks! Feel free to suggest new features :)

ktsmith 15y ago

The new content pushing in from the top displaces content you may currently be looking at. If you are reading a text snippet, or starting an embedded video and new content comes in it's easy to lose where you were as the content pushes down the page and changes the columns as well.

JonathanBouman 15y ago
That is true. I haven't found an elegant solution for that, do you've a good idea? I thought about only loading new content when the 'scrolldit' logo is visible for a user.
- ktsmith 15y ago
  Perhaps you could preload the content but not push it into the page. Then provide some kind of a visual indicator that new content is available. A slider on the side of the page that grows with the current position moving down the bar as more new content is available. You could then push that content into the page as they scroll up from the current position. This gives the user the benefit of knowing that there's new content available without the page shifting around the content they are viewing.
  - JonathanBouman 15y ago
    Thanks ktsmith! Will note it down and see what's possible.