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How Hacker News Posts Behave

29 points by simonhughes22 12y ago

simonhughes22 12y ago
Pretty cool. The site's been described as the Youtube for Data Viz. Kind of hyperbole, but I personally like the idea.
duiker101 12y ago
the visualization is nice but the website gave me a headache. I keep my browser relatively small so when I pressed play the visualization wasn't fully in the window, so I scrolled down to centre it but the website decided I wanted to see the next visualization and moved me there. Scrolling up again took me to the previous one but unloaded again. This happened 3 times before I understood that the only way I was going to see the data was by enlarging the browser.
- dyeje 12y ago
  I would like to second this frustration. The scrolling mechanic is very unintuitive.
- Kluny 12y ago
  Thirded, scrolling is out of control, and every click appends something to the browser history so the back button sucks.
shaufler 12y ago
Here's a direct link to the source: https://modeanalytics.com/benn/reports/029573ea73c3 https://modeanalytics.com/benn/reports/029573ea73c3 It doesn't have the annoying scroll behavior of the dadaviz website, so you can actually see the visualization. Perhaps the mods should change the submission link to this.
zhte415 12y ago
An interesting display of how wobbling down the scroll wheel of a mouse loads another partially loaded image of varying format on varying background colour schemes.
EGreg 12y ago
Any actual insights as to the best time to post? LOL
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Oculus 12y ago
This website has horrible usability. Visualizations look amazing, but too bad I wont be able to see them due to the un-usability of the site.
ElliotH 12y ago
It's not often things declared 'unusable' are actually 'unusable', but ye gods. What on earth? Why would you map scroll behaviour to /that/?
chatmasta 12y ago
I'm not usually the guy commenting on HN posts complaining about usability, but man, that pissed me off. First, I'm on mobile (iPhone 5). I clicked the link knowing nothing except the headline, which sounded like the title of the blogpost. So I got to the site and just saw what looked like the title of another blog post. I was confused, thinking I must be looking at the author's blog archives. So I scrolled down looking for the post. At least, I thought I scrolled down. A more accurate term might be that I violently dragged the screen down. I kept scrolling, looking for the post. Well, it's not there. Okay, I must be looking at something else. I can't tell what it is, and I'm on mobile, so whatever. I'll just to back to HN. Oops! Can't go back to HN. Turns out every time I scrolled I went forward a page. I had to press the back button six times to return to HN. Awful.

29 points by simonhughes22 12y ago

Pretty cool. The site's been described as the Youtube for Data Viz. Kind of hyperbole, but I personally like the idea.

the visualization is nice but the website gave me a headache. I keep my browser relatively small so when I pressed play the visualization wasn't fully in the window, so I scrolled down to centre it but the website decided I wanted to see the next visualization and moved me there. Scrolling up again took me to the previous one but unloaded again. This happened 3 times before I understood that the only way I was going to see the data was by enlarging the browser.

dyeje 12y ago
I would like to second this frustration. The scrolling mechanic is very unintuitive.
Kluny 12y ago
Thirded, scrolling is out of control, and every click appends something to the browser history so the back button sucks.

shaufler 12y ago

Here's a direct link to the source: https://modeanalytics.com/benn/reports/029573ea73c3 https://modeanalytics.com/benn/reports/029573ea73c3 It doesn't have the annoying scroll behavior of the dadaviz website, so you can actually see the visualization. Perhaps the mods should change the submission link to this.

zhte415 12y ago

An interesting display of how wobbling down the scroll wheel of a mouse loads another partially loaded image of varying format on varying background colour schemes.

EGreg 12y ago

Any actual insights as to the best time to post? LOL

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Oculus 12y ago

This website has horrible usability. Visualizations look amazing, but too bad I wont be able to see them due to the un-usability of the site.

ElliotH 12y ago

It's not often things declared 'unusable' are actually 'unusable', but ye gods. What on earth? Why would you map scroll behaviour to /that/?

chatmasta 12y ago

I'm not usually the guy commenting on HN posts complaining about usability, but man, that pissed me off. First, I'm on mobile (iPhone 5). I clicked the link knowing nothing except the headline, which sounded like the title of the blogpost. So I got to the site and just saw what looked like the title of another blog post. I was confused, thinking I must be looking at the author's blog archives. So I scrolled down looking for the post. At least, I thought I scrolled down. A more accurate term might be that I violently dragged the screen down. I kept scrolling, looking for the post. Well, it's not there. Okay, I must be looking at something else. I can't tell what it is, and I'm on mobile, so whatever. I'll just to back to HN. Oops! Can't go back to HN. Turns out every time I scrolled I went forward a page. I had to press the back button six times to return to HN. Awful.