Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by denizozger on Friday April 11, 2014 @02:55PM
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I'm actually working on a project quite similar to what you two are talking about: http://www.mosttalked.com/ The idea is to prioritise news be shares + display the most popular tweets of people that you possibly care about, along with a summary as well. It might inspire you hopefully. I believe merging news outlets with social media has so many points to improve.
Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by blueicelt2004 on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:04PM
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I like your site. My only criticism is that there are not dates and times with anything. It would be nice to know how old a tweet is instead of assuming you are sorting from most recent to oldest.
Functionally I also cannot seem to scroll to the bottom of the tweets, and I would fix the loading on the main page. The news articles are loading on the left side of the screen and then shifting to the center.
Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by austenallred on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:12PM
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Great feedback; you're absolutely right. We'll make timestamps clearer and implement an infinite scroll with the next iteration. Thank you!
Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by kf5jak on Friday April 11, 2014 @07:19PM
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Awesome idea, something I've been wanting to see for a while. Maybe add a splash/about page to give more information on what it is for people who happen upon the site from other sources than HN, where it has been described.
Yes, and almost equally important (at least IMHO) would be providing a record of what happened in the past. A way to find every piece of news surrounding an event. For example if I want to see a full outline of every Snowden related article I could pull them all up and then filter down to just news articles that were first to publish a particular story. While I am sure there are people creating pages/full websites to document this one issue I would love to have that for every event so that instead of endlessly googling for articles related to something you could just got to Grasswire (or other site). Sort of a Wikipedia for events but built from sources instead of written by people who then link to sources.