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Show HN: Showing HN
- JimWestergren 14y agoNice concept. But I would like if you could display much more far back. And perhaps also how much upvotes each one got. Look at hneasy.com and maybe contact him.
- ddod 14y agoThanks for the feedback! It's actually creating its own database so as time goes on, it will show everything since it's been running. I didn't want to scrape through the backlog as I've already gotten banned a couple times while making this (prompting pg's recent unban post) and I didn't want to push my luck. The upvotes thing is tricky because it's very time sensitive. I thought about it for a bit, but besides the difficulty in judging when to update the points, it also goes against the goal that all Show HNs are given the spotlight even if they didn't do so well.
- JimWestergren 14y agoMakes sense. I will use your site.
- danso 14y agoDon't know how you're scraping this...but why not just keep track of the current upvote totals everytime you crawl the list (up to a certain cutoff point...I don't think upvotes more than three weeks from now really mean anything)...It's nice to see all the Show HN's in one place, but if some of them were flops, then they won't be more interesting when viewed from this app. However, I think it is always useful to see what great Show HN's we might have missed in the week or month...not all of us check the frontpage every day or mark down all the things we wish we had time to visit later.
- flexxaeon 14y agoalso check out hnshowcase.com (not mine) knocked over by all the meta in hnshowcase showing showinghn showing Show HNs while showing other Show HNs
- danso 14y agoCan't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :) Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as someone else pointed out) to show upvote score. And then a way to show most upvoted in past week/month/year/all-time, as that is a view that is not-at-all easy to get from HN's interface.
- ddod 14y agoSorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement. My scraper isn't currently set to get that deep, but the most upvoted per time period is a good idea that I'll look into.
- cryptoz 14y agoThe site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl http://imgur.com/h9wNl
- dangrossman 14y agoIt's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles. http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.
- ddod 14y agoI've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.
- michaelkscott 14y agohttp://contrastrebellion.com/ http://contrastrebellion.com/
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- enoch_r 14y agoI agree to some extent (on this particular page the contrast is far too low). But low contrast has some benefits too--specifically, reduced eyestrain. On most sites, high contrast is fine, but if something is meant to be read--blogs, articles, code, etc.-- I much prefer a more subdued colorscheme.
- tarekayna 14y agoGreat job. I can see myself checking this as Show HN are some of the most interesting posts I see here. Here is some feedback: - I second the opinions that the text is a bit unreadable. - A lot of white space especially at the head of the page. On 1366x768 the first post is almost in the middle of the page. - Would be great to have more posts. Paging would work. Additional features you may consider: - Maybe a screenshot of the page would make your site less plain. Checkout html2canvas http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ Great stuff :)
- tmchow 14y agoSuggestion: Enable an RSS feed.
- showhndaily 14y agoI created ShowHNDaily.com to email Show HN postings. Feel free to use our RSS feed if you'd like @ http://www.showhndaily.com/rss.xml http://www.showhndaily.com/rss.xml
- xianshou 14y agoYo dawg.
- zalew 14y agoI frequent this one http://www.hnshowcase.com/ http://www.hnshowcase.com/
- rpsubhub 14y agoCheck out Show HN filter on hnapp.com: http://hnapp.com/filter/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e43663116f http://hnapp.com/filter/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e43663116f
- webbruce 14y agoWhat did you build this in?
- ddod 14y agoNode.js with nothing fancy. It's only about 80 lines of code serverside.
- brador 14y agoThat justshowHN blog on Tumblr is no longer active. If anyone knows a good replacement show HN feed I could add to http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com let me know!
- icebraining 14y agohttp://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=6b3cef212d7de875817dffb0171aa9ce&_render=rss http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=6b3cef212d7de87581... This is the perfect job for Pipes. It's literally the only Yahoo service I still use, but it's awesome. I wish I could write my own modules, though.
- joesunga 14y agoCan you have a filter to rank by points? Would love to sort based on that to see the best "Show HN". :)
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- opcon 14y agoIt seems good, as others have stated it is a bit low contrast. I just have one small problem with the header/title. Right now it's click able on the whitespace surrounding the title. I've outlined this http://i.imgur.com/isRbJ.png http://i.imgur.com/isRbJ.png The red box is where it's click able now, and the green box is where I think it should be click able.
- oxffff 14y agodid this a month ago. my site is still in alpha copythisproject.appspot.com