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I don't have an issue with this specifically (like apparently a few others do), but I'm wondering if you could walk me through a use-case. You mention tickets

I don't have an issue with this specifically (like apparently a few others do), but I'm wondering if you could walk me through a use-case. You mention tickets for Coachella. Ok, so I want to go, but I'm waiting for the tickets to go on sale. If I understand what you've built, I have to sit here watching the page refresh, which means I could just as easily press refresh. What I want to know is has the page changed! Is the action I wanted to take now available. How does your site really resolve that problem?

justindocanto 14y ago
One thing your reply reminded me of is I wanted to add a "Open in new window" button once you saw your desired result. So, possible use case is actually something somebody is using it right now for. My Bloody Valentine (MBV), a band who hasnt released an album in 21 years, is releasing their album tonight. They have a tab open with the website for MBV refreshing every 30 seconds or so.... and check back on that tab on occasion to see if it's live yet! Then once it's live... They'll know they can check it out. They could also, if they had enough monitor space, like i do, could just have it sitting in the corner of their desktop refreshing away until they see the page change to what they want. That removes all the clicking of refresh, which is why i called it "Let me refresh that for you". Yes, a script code do the solutions. Yes, you could sit their and click refresh over and over. But that's the point of technology, isn't it? To do things for us better than we could ourselves?
- justindocanto 14y ago
  Another use case would be my website went down because it hit the front page of hacker news, and i need to see if it's come back up yet. (this didnt happen, im just giving a more coder oriented example since this is HN).

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I don't have an issue with this specifically (like apparently a few others do), but I'm wondering if you could walk me through a use-case. You mention tickets

by pedalpete 14y ago

justindocanto 14y ago
One thing your reply reminded me of is I wanted to add a "Open in new window" button once you saw your desired result. So, possible use case is actually something somebody is using it right now for. My Bloody Valentine (MBV), a band who hasnt released an album in 21 years, is releasing their album tonight. They have a tab open with the website for MBV refreshing every 30 seconds or so.... and check back on that tab on occasion to see if it's live yet! Then once it's live... They'll know they can check it out. They could also, if they had enough monitor space, like i do, could just have it sitting in the corner of their desktop refreshing away until they see the page change to what they want. That removes all the clicking of refresh, which is why i called it "Let me refresh that for you". Yes, a script code do the solutions. Yes, you could sit their and click refresh over and over. But that's the point of technology, isn't it? To do things for us better than we could ourselves?
- justindocanto 14y ago
  Another use case would be my website went down because it hit the front page of hacker news, and i need to see if it's come back up yet. (this didnt happen, im just giving a more coder oriented example since this is HN).