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Crowdsourced photos coming from Aleppo, Syria.

30 points by leonbuchard 14y ago

johnnyg 14y ago
Those pictures are amazing but the UI on teleportd needs work: 1. Hide the little circle images unless I'm taking a hover action. 2. Allow keyboard forward/back shortcuts.
- ecocentrik 14y ago
  keyboard forward/back works with left and right arrow keys
cskau 14y ago
YouTube channel: (Possibly NSFW, showing fighting) https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianDeveloper https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianDeveloper
plehoux 14y ago
The UI confusion come from the shadow projected on the selected thumbnail. If the thumbnail is located in a dark region of the picture, the shadow become invisible, it's thus impossible to quickly recognize where we stand in the thumbnails stack. The horizontal translate is too small to compensate. You could draw a small white circle with black shadow under the selected thumbnail, or simply swap the thumbnail for a white circle when it's selected. I think the thumbnail are also to small, we cannot easily distinguish details by looking at them, so they serve no purpose. Great pictures.
iuguy 14y ago
Incidentally it seems Al-Qaida may be becoming a more effective force in Syria than the Free Syrian Army[1]. [1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-battle-syria http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-...
accountswu 14y ago
I cannot access the link right now but many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). So US-sponsored Israeli terrorists bombing Palestinian women and children will also make it to hacker news top page? Syria's tyrant is not a US-sponsored one so we must highlight his brutality? How about US-sponsored Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini and other butchers? I don't remember seeing anything about their misery making it to the first page of Hacker News. Jul 24, 2012 German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria By John Rosenthal http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg CNN BUSTED!!! AGAIN more Fake videos from the Libya, Syria conflict http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s 06/19/2012 Eyewitnesses Contradict Houla Massacre Claims http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contradict-claims-that-rebels-carried-out-houla-massacre-a-839593.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contr... Prime German Paper: Syrian Rebels Committed Houla Massacre http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syrian-rebels-committed-houla-massacre.html http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syri... The prime German daily, the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has a new report (in German) about the Houla massacre. The author is Rainer Hermann who studied and speaks Arabic, Turkish and Farsi. Hermann also has a PhD in economics and wrote his thesis about the modern Syrian social history. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi and has been reporting from the Middle East for over 22 years.

30 points by leonbuchard 14y ago

Those pictures are amazing but the UI on teleportd needs work: 1. Hide the little circle images unless I'm taking a hover action. 2. Allow keyboard forward/back shortcuts.

ecocentrik 14y ago
keyboard forward/back works with left and right arrow keys

cskau 14y ago

YouTube channel: (Possibly NSFW, showing fighting) https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianDeveloper https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianDeveloper

plehoux 14y ago

The UI confusion come from the shadow projected on the selected thumbnail. If the thumbnail is located in a dark region of the picture, the shadow become invisible, it's thus impossible to quickly recognize where we stand in the thumbnails stack. The horizontal translate is too small to compensate. You could draw a small white circle with black shadow under the selected thumbnail, or simply swap the thumbnail for a white circle when it's selected. I think the thumbnail are also to small, we cannot easily distinguish details by looking at them, so they serve no purpose. Great pictures.

iuguy 14y ago

Incidentally it seems Al-Qaida may be becoming a more effective force in Syria than the Free Syrian Army[1]. [1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-battle-syria http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/al-qaida-rebels-...

accountswu 14y ago

I cannot access the link right now but many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). So US-sponsored Israeli terrorists bombing Palestinian women and children will also make it to hacker news top page? Syria's tyrant is not a US-sponsored one so we must highlight his brutality? How about US-sponsored Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini and other butchers? I don't remember seeing anything about their misery making it to the first page of Hacker News. Jul 24, 2012 German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria By John Rosenthal http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg CNN BUSTED!!! AGAIN more Fake videos from the Libya, Syria conflict http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s 06/19/2012 Eyewitnesses Contradict Houla Massacre Claims http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contradict-claims-that-rebels-carried-out-houla-massacre-a-839593.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contr... Prime German Paper: Syrian Rebels Committed Houla Massacre http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syrian-rebels-committed-houla-massacre.html http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syri... The prime German daily, the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has a new report (in German) about the Houla massacre. The author is Rainer Hermann who studied and speaks Arabic, Turkish and Farsi. Hermann also has a PhD in economics and wrote his thesis about the modern Syrian social history. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi and has been reporting from the Middle East for over 22 years.