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The title is misleading, I expected to see a map of the changes from the last hour/day/week/month but you just get a blank map at first. And then dots appear bu
by Thomashuet 4y ago
The title is misleading, I expected to see a map of the changes from the last hour/day/week/month but you just get a blank map at first. And then dots appear but they disappear after just a few dozen seconds which is not enough time to visualize any trend.
- netsharc 4y agoI was wondering if they meant a map of topics and recent edits. E.g. recent edits of US politicians' pages. I came, I saw the slow updates, and I didn't even stay long enough to see that those entries disappear. Trivia: Just before Sarah Palin was named John McCain's running mate, there were plenty of edits to her Wikipedia page...
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoMisleading is a bit of a harsh judgment to pass when it's simply not what you expected; is that down to the title, or down to your own expectations?
- vehementi 4y agoI'd describe this as a "live map" not a "recent map" Certainly not worthy of being called "misleading" but I would say it's misnamed
- guywithahat 4y agoIt seems weird to me that the dot disappears; wouldn't you want to see a heat map over time? It's a cool site which clearly just exists for the novelty of it but still, it seems weird to add a feature that makes the product worse
- pr0zac 4y agoDunno if I'd call it a product really. It is an open source project though so feel free to fork it and make the change you're suggesting! Pretty sure doing so would just involve removing the call to .animate() that starts on line 238 in https://github.com/hatnote/rcmap/blob/master/static/main.js#L238 https://github.com/hatnote/rcmap/blob/master/static/main.js#...