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Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best
- botolo 15y agoNice idea. I would totally love to have an option to import pics from some other websites, such as Flickr, Reddit, etc.
- drewtemp 15y agoThanks for the suggestion. I'm going to be adding Tumblr import soon and I'll take a look at Flickr.
- jv22222 15y agoThere's a few pics of my cat Baily for ya ;) (Not sure why some of them went in upside down)
- drewtemp 15y agoThanks! It's not checking EXIF data for orientation.
- felixchan 15y agoWhat javascript plugin do you use for Pinterest layou?
- tar 15y agoIt seems to be using Masonry (http://masonry.desandro.com/ http://masonry.desandro.com/)
- harlanlewis 15y agoPinterest is a viral demo page for jQuery Masonry. (https://twitter.com/#!/gem_ray/status/167010997008211969 https://twitter.com/#!/gem_ray/status/167010997008211969)
- nabilt 15y agoThanks. Didn't know about this one. I've been using Woorkmark's plugin (http://www.wookmark.com/jquery-plugin http://www.wookmark.com/jquery-plugin), but Masonry seems to have more features. Will be trying it out.
- bobbypage 15y agoYou should really submit this to Reddit (if you haven't already),. This is exactly the thing that the Reddit community would die for.
- christiangenco 15y agoCrosspost to: http://www.reddit.com/r/cats http://www.reddit.com/r/cats http://www.reddit.com/r/aww http://www.reddit.com/r/aww http://www.reddit.com/r/lolcats http://www.reddit.com/r/lolcats etc.
- why-el 15y agoIt might not be possible, but I would love to see this website scaling so fast it would become the place for cat pictures, hence forcing all social media back to doing some public good.
- anthonyb 15y agohttp://kittenwar.com/ http://kittenwar.com/
- harlanlewis 15y agoAdd keyboard nav to upvote, downvote, and cycle through pics. The internet needs a streamlined cat experience.
- fishtoaster 15y agoI feel like this would benefit from infinite scrolling. Having to stop and paginate gives me too much time to evaluate just what I'm doing with my time.
- ForrestN 15y agoThis a great start, I think there's definitely something here. I think the biggest issue right now is just making the experience of browsing more dynamic. Endless scroll would help make it easier to see more cats faster, but I'm not sure that's enough. One thing to think about would be making the cats able to be tagged, so we could browse categories. Somehow, an extra level of engagement needs to come in. As hideous as that kittenwar.com site is, I end up wanting to stay there longer and I end up seeing more kittens because the game aspect keeps me interested.
- ForrestN 15y agoLooks pretty rough on my iPad. I'm sure the normal layout would be fine if you could just mirror that.
- drewtemp 15y agoJust made some tweaks. Should be better now, but I'll work on improving that more.
- laurasbadideas 15y agoIt would be nice to have next / previous / random buttons on the detail pages. I tried to add a couple pictures, and they haven't shown up on the "newest cats" page (and yes, I'm sure I'm not just looking at a cached version). If that's by design, it would probably be a good idea to display a message to that effect after a picture is added (I just got the blank "add a cat" form after submitting my pictures).
- drewtemp 15y agoDid you add a title? Otherwise the image validation could have failed.
- laurasbadideas 15y agoYes, they both had titles (something like "My cat is not a Twilight vampire" and "Holly and Thunder on a sunny afternoon". One other thing that might be relevant is that they were both PNGs.
- drewtemp 15y agoAll right. I'll check into that.
- AlecM 15y agoMy suggestion: allow users to flag inappropriate photos. Only a matter time before someone uploads a dead cat pic.
- drewtemp 15y agoThanks for the suggestion. It's on my todo list.