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Before I Die I Want To
- lepunk 13y agoA similar idea was implemented at the 2011 Hungarian "Sziget" festival. They installed a huge wall where visitors were able to write their "Before I die" messages. http://sziget360.com/panorama/link/762 http://sziget360.com/panorama/link/762
- davidcollantes 13y ago"ERROR: Adobe Flash Player 9/10 or higher needed."
- danso 13y agoPowerful content. At the risk of being pedantic, I think the site would be a better service to its content by using a standard vertical scroll layout. I viewed many of the photos but found it too easy to stop because of the difficulty in side scrolling
- halcyondaze 13y agoI would have to second this, I actually didn't know it was horizontal scrolling. Great stuff though, like the aesthetics!
- iffyuva 13y agowhats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.
- Hopka 13y agoYou cannot use a scroll wheel, which is annoying enough.
- _Caspian 13y agoI know you can use Ctrl+Scroll with a touchpad but does it not work with a normal mousewheel?
- deadairspace 13y agoI held down shift and used my scroll wheel.
- phatbyte 13y agoI totally missed it. If it weren't for your I wouldn't even see it. There's only a "scroll right >" in a very light grey and small font. Including a bigger arrow icon after the right photo would help.
- drharris 13y agoAgreed, great content being hidden by poor usability.
- garysweaver 13y agoAgreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.
- Lambdanaut 13y agoI think the content is better suited to a horizontal layout because of its shape. You can argue against the usability of it if you wish, but I think Javascript hijacking the scroll wheel and converting scrolling vertically to scrolling horizontally would be really useful in this case.
- jaynos 13y agoA nice hover scroll effect (not sure if that is the correct term) like browsing netflix would be great.
- ohwp 13y agoIf you like this also check http://beforeidie.cc/ http://beforeidie.cc/
- philliphaydon 13y agoI can't even read half of these, peoples handwriting is so terrible. One there says "Before I die I want to raise a child" but it took be a full minute to not read it as "I want to ride a child"
- philliphaydon 13y agoWhy the downvotes?
- ludston 13y agoBecause reading criticism of a group of non-native-English speakers' handwriting is a waste of life.
- philliphaydon 13y agoThe ones not written in English are clearly not what I'm referring to. The ones written in English have terrible hand writing by people who clearly speak English as a first language. Pretty much all of the non-native English speaking people are easy to read.
- ludston 13y agoApologies for wording that in a a way that allowed you to avoid the point. It's because criticising handwriting is a waste of life.
- danielrm26 13y agoBefore he dies he wants to run nginx and varnish caching so that his site will survive the front page of HN.
- verroq 13y agoKeep pressing F5 until it loads.
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- friendly_chap 13y agoIf the site still doesn't load you can fix it by issuing $ ab -n 1000000 -c 500 http://beforeidieiwantto.org/ http://beforeidieiwantto.org/
- pramodh 13y agoI just usually visit the cached version from Google. Here's a script that I wrote a few days back. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/169548 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/169548
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- chewxy 13y agoThe disparity between what I can assume to be the local Delhi populace and the backpackers/travellers is huge. The Indian kids just want to study, while the adults want to own houses/shops. The travellers on the other hand, have more abstract goals. Fascinating. And also sad upon further thought
- cmdkeen 13y agoIt's a pretty good example of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - the travellers are firmly at the self actualisation stage whereby they do not need to focus on fulfilling lower needs.
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- michaelhealy 13y agoI made a site with a similar concept but instead of "Before I die", Its "Someday I Want". The link is http://www.somedayiwant.com http://www.somedayiwant.com
- j_col 13y agoYeah, I've seen many similar, some examples: http://www.mybigambitions.com/ http://www.mybigambitions.com/ http://www.bucketlist.org/ http://www.bucketlist.org/ And probably the oldest of them all? http://www.43things.com/ http://www.43things.com/
- sramam 13y agoI too had built something like this while learning to build web-sites: http://www.groovydream.com/get_a_bunch/1 http://www.groovydream.com/get_a_bunch/1 Surprisingly, people still post occasionally....
- marknutter 13y agoBefore I die I want to live until I'm at least 100 years old.
- Aardwolf 13y ago"Service Temporarily Unavailable" I hope the website could do what it wanted to before this.
- kaoD 13y ago> Before I Die I want To... Service Temporarily Unavailable. That made me laugh :P
- krosaen 13y agoPoignant: "... I want to study." Amusing: "... I want a government job."
- audreyt 13y agoPoetic: "Antes de Morir, Yo quiero Dormir."
- scotty79 13y agoBefore I die I want to see two legged robot running gracefully a rocky mountain path.
- otibom 13y agoI think you have a good chance of doing that unless you're over 70 :)
- topherjaynes 13y agoYou sure it wasn't inspired by Candi Chang? Not even a nod? http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/ http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/
- hawkharris 13y agoI almost cringed when I saw the juxtaposition of India and New York; I thought this project, like others I have seen, was discrediting the life goals of Americans to trivialize so-called First World problems. But that was far from the truth. It presented the stories of people in New York, India and in hospices with equal care and respect. I love the colors and the look of old film, too.
- otibom 13y agoBefore I die I want to go to space.
- pavanred 13y agoI think I noticed a lot more kids from Delhi as opposed to barely any kids from NYC. Perhaps that affects the overall picture.