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It's a bit hard to navigate and tell what you are looking at, unfortunately. But this reminds me, that my dad has an around 300gb repository of historical imag

by OroPla 2mo ago

It's a bit hard to navigate and tell what you are looking at, unfortunately. But this reminds me, that my dad has an around 300gb repository of historical images and newspaper articles for the place he lives in that references events and shows images going back about a thousand years. If there was some kind of docker service to make all this data more accessible that would be great, but there doesn't seem to be anything like that. Currently it's living inside digikam, so it's just a bunch of images with tags. I don't know how he managed this, but there are over a hundred thousand tags and he worked on this all alone.

uneekname 2mo ago
Hey OroPla, thanks for your comment. I agree I have work to do in terms of making the site more approachable to new users. I'd really value any ideas you have to that end. Yesterdays is fully open-source, and while the production site runs in Kubernetes, the development setup in Docker Compose might meet your needs. If you ever wanted to talk through the process of running Yesterdays for your dad's collection, I'd be glad to help you with that. Cheers!
- OroPla 2mo ago
  That's good to know. Years ago I ended up on a page dedicated to explaining Laws of UX which has changed my outlook on design. Rather than trying to convey what I learned back then through text, I'll point you to the source directly: (1) https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/ https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/ (2) https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ Upon visiting the site, my initial state is one of being lost, followed by being overwhelmed where to explore first. Going to "Browse" in the top left brings me to a page I can't make sense of, but that seem to be sources. I'd have expected sources somewhere in the footer. Then I tried "Map", picked a random place to look at and found one picture context. That's when I originally gave up due to (3) https://lawsofux.com/cognitive-load/ https://lawsofux.com/cognitive-load/ I was hoping to find myself to a place with a timeline of what a certain building looked like ten, thirty and seventy years ago, but could not find such a thing. -------- And as something actionable: - "Browse" shouldn't lead to sources, but be down in the footer - homepage could have an example of something with lots of pictures and show you the change over time without even clicking anything. The map is cool, but having it below the fold (you have to scroll) is unfortunate It would be cool to have the map at the top taking about 20% of the height above the fold and have the other 80% show per default a place with many pictures and then adapt to what you click on the map. The recent activity tab doesn't have to be there and could be after "Search" and before "Docs" in the header navigation.

by OroPla 2mo ago

uneekname 2mo ago

Hey OroPla, thanks for your comment. I agree I have work to do in terms of making the site more approachable to new users. I'd really value any ideas you have to that end. Yesterdays is fully open-source, and while the production site runs in Kubernetes, the development setup in Docker Compose might meet your needs. If you ever wanted to talk through the process of running Yesterdays for your dad's collection, I'd be glad to help you with that. Cheers!

OroPla 2mo ago
That's good to know. Years ago I ended up on a page dedicated to explaining Laws of UX which has changed my outlook on design. Rather than trying to convey what I learned back then through text, I'll point you to the source directly: (1) https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/ https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/ (2) https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ Upon visiting the site, my initial state is one of being lost, followed by being overwhelmed where to explore first. Going to "Browse" in the top left brings me to a page I can't make sense of, but that seem to be sources. I'd have expected sources somewhere in the footer. Then I tried "Map", picked a random place to look at and found one picture context. That's when I originally gave up due to (3) https://lawsofux.com/cognitive-load/ https://lawsofux.com/cognitive-load/ I was hoping to find myself to a place with a timeline of what a certain building looked like ten, thirty and seventy years ago, but could not find such a thing. -------- And as something actionable: - "Browse" shouldn't lead to sources, but be down in the footer - homepage could have an example of something with lots of pictures and show you the change over time without even clicking anything. The map is cool, but having it below the fold (you have to scroll) is unfortunate It would be cool to have the map at the top taking about 20% of the height above the fold and have the other 80% show per default a place with many pictures and then adapt to what you click on the map. The recent activity tab doesn't have to be there and could be after "Search" and before "Docs" in the header navigation.