Re:HN on StoryLine – historic news browser
by antulik on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:33PM
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StoryLine is my pet project. If you have any questions I'm happy to answer them. It's still in early stages and I'm keen to hear your feedback.
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Re:HN on StoryLine – historic news browser
by bajsejohannes on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:18AM
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Cool project.
For the "tutorial", I read through maybe the first 3 boxes, then got tired and clicked until I could explore it myself. I bet it's the same for most users (feel free to measure to get real data). If you can, defer teaching to mouseovers and other hints in the UI.
Same here. Another option is to offer an option to end/cancel the tutorial next to the "Next" button.
I can confirm the exact same thing happened to me.
This is very similar to something I've been looking for/thinking of building for some time. I took a look around but browsing was very slow for me so I'll just ask here; do you have any plans for training filters? That is, feeding it data about what sort of thing you read (and on what basis; software announcements I might click on daily, but if I haven't checked in for a month I'll only check more serious articles / deep discussions) to get personalized results.
Personalised priorities are definitely in the plans, probably not in the nearest future as I want to refine core features first.
Completely understandable, as that would be a pretty major step. Going back I now see the more/less/read buttons which could benefit from going in that direction. Good luck!
Re:HN on StoryLine – historic news browser
by davidlumley on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:50AM
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It looks like it's progressing well.
One quick thing I noticed is that the thumbnails show up, even if there is no article for them: http://i.imgur.com/QrLZuxF.png
yeah, it's by design because that part was changed not that long ago. Before lines were crossing each other, so had to change the logic of what news to show on the right. I agree with you, it does look confusing with empty boxes, will need to fix it up. Thanks for the feedback.
You can see previous version here http://blog.storyline.im/4/post/2013/01/first-reddit-integra...
Hey, great job man. Not often a site distracts me for as long as this one did :)
In the initial tour, are the "top moments" hard-coded or actually being generated? Seeing "Aaron Schwartz Commits Suicide" in huge letters at the top of the column had me closing the tab rapidly.
Top moments are generated based on your current view and what you haven't marked as read. "Aaron Schwartz Commits Suicide" post got a lot of points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845