I like the idea of showing selected items on the left, will need to think how it would work with narrow 1024px browsers. Perhaps selected news could float on top of the graph.
and I agree article preview or abstract would be definitely more useful, will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.
You're welcome. I may have more suggestions about overall design. Let me know if you want to reconnect offline.
that would be great, I still don't have any designers involved in the project so the current version is very simplistic, pretty much the best I could do.
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A quick request, too: having a link to share a selected period/view would be great. That way you could share with friends a specific period of time/news that you find interesting.
Re:HN on StoryLine – historic news browser
by ArekDymalski on Friday July 12, 2013 @04:21AM
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I had exactly the same thought. It's very useful for the users and a nice chance to boost popularity.
UI wise, the lines crossing each other when you select a sphere is not very elegant. WHy dont you make the news you select appear on the left, while keeping the suggested news on the right ? That would look so much better, and be less confusing for the user.
And the tutorial was a bit too long. I would rather have in-line help than a mandatory tutorial.
one more thing, there is little to no value of providing a pre-visualisation of the web page. It would be so much more useful to provide the first few lines of the articles. There are libraries to scrap articles that do that very well.