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Hacking the iPod: Gizmodo vs. Hacker News

20 points by ted0 14y ago

aw3c2 14y ago
I am sure it is fun to design like that but the font is very hard to read, the links too. And the numbers on the images are much less easy to grasp than plain text.
- ted0 14y ago
  Are you referring to the text links? Thanks for the feedback. I thought it would make it a little more interesting having a visual for the referrers / countries.
  - kaybe 14y ago
    I agree, the links stand out way too much. The images with the numbers for the referrers look nice, but the country image numbers are a bit hard to read and it doesn't look .. good. I'm not a design person, so I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because the numbers are not in line at some parts and the black border is not equally far on all sides .. (plus the colours don't fit too well) They're interesting numbers nevertheless! :)
    - ted0 14y ago
      I'm not a designer either and putting the images together took way longer than it should have but thanks for the feedback!
      - kaybe 14y ago
        Ahh.. so now I became curious and went on to try it myself. I learned some stuff, so it's ok I guess. Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18817679/flags1.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18817679/flags1.png (Just ignore if you don't want, I was just playing around. It seems the flags' colours have to be that way - they're from wikipedia and people on there have been changing the colours all over the place to fit the government specifications. Interesting.)
        falling 14y ago
        Flags, country names and even merely a country existence are extremely delicate matter.
icegreentea 14y ago
It's nice seeing how US visitors are 10x greater than Canadian, nicely mirroring the actual population scale.
- ted0 14y ago
  I can't tell if this is sarcasm ;) I figured UK trumped Canada for Tuesday due to the time zones -> HN views on Monday night in UK timestamped as Tuesday.
ricksta 14y ago
This article said he's got an interview with SF startup. If it's not iCracked from YC, then you guy should give this guy an interview before someone else gets him.
- ted0 14y ago
  Was not iCracked ;)

20 points by ted0 14y ago

aw3c2 14y ago

I am sure it is fun to design like that but the font is very hard to read, the links too. And the numbers on the images are much less easy to grasp than plain text.

ted0 14y ago
Are you referring to the text links? Thanks for the feedback. I thought it would make it a little more interesting having a visual for the referrers / countries.
- kaybe 14y ago
  I agree, the links stand out way too much. The images with the numbers for the referrers look nice, but the country image numbers are a bit hard to read and it doesn't look .. good. I'm not a design person, so I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because the numbers are not in line at some parts and the black border is not equally far on all sides .. (plus the colours don't fit too well) They're interesting numbers nevertheless! :)
  - ted0 14y ago
    I'm not a designer either and putting the images together took way longer than it should have but thanks for the feedback!
    - kaybe 14y ago
      Ahh.. so now I became curious and went on to try it myself. I learned some stuff, so it's ok I guess. Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18817679/flags1.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18817679/flags1.png (Just ignore if you don't want, I was just playing around. It seems the flags' colours have to be that way - they're from wikipedia and people on there have been changing the colours all over the place to fit the government specifications. Interesting.)
      - falling 14y ago
        Flags, country names and even merely a country existence are extremely delicate matter.

icegreentea 14y ago

It's nice seeing how US visitors are 10x greater than Canadian, nicely mirroring the actual population scale.

ted0 14y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm ;) I figured UK trumped Canada for Tuesday due to the time zones -> HN views on Monday night in UK timestamped as Tuesday.

ricksta 14y ago

This article said he's got an interview with SF startup. If it's not iCracked from YC, then you guy should give this guy an interview before someone else gets him.

ted0 14y ago
Was not iCracked ;)