The Onion launches Clickhole

Re:The Onion launches Clickhole by morley on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:07AM (#7883449)

The site looks very promising so far. The Onion has been running listicle-type articles for a while (in the form of captioned photo sets, bulleted lists, and more) so this seems like a natural extension. And the Buzzfeeds of the world certainly deserve the lampooning.

I love how there's a persistent click counter in the footer, which seems to be implemented with localStorage and also seems to be tied to some badge system.

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Re:The Onion launches Clickhole by jcromartie on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:26AM (#7883580)

The Onion was lampooning infographics before they took off and evolved into "listicles" at least 10 years ago.

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Re:The Onion launches Clickhole by mikeash on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:45AM (#7883676)

At least two decades. Here's one in an issue from 1994: http://www.theonion.com/articles/november-2-1994,10581/

I imagine they go all the way back to 1988 but it's hard to dig them up....

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Re:The Onion launches Clickhole by bluetidepro on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:48AM (#7884084)

The badge system is interesting. You can see more of it here: http://www.clickhole.com/achievement-hole/

It also resets after you get the top badge. I cheated and just kept running "jQuery("body").trigger("click");" in the browser console, and it triggered clicks. See: http://bluetide.pro/69vO/52JI0bMg

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Re:The Onion launches Clickhole by csinchok on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:26AM (#7883577)

Here's a little insider's secret: http://www.clickhole.com/achievement-hole/

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