What happens when you are on the HN top site (beside you open a beer and enjoy that little tiny moment after months of hard work):<p>a live snapshot <a href="http://i.imgur.com/0KbPjcx.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/0KbPjcx.png</a>
Cool, I like it. One request: Start all stories collapsed. Right now, the Ellen Pao story is at the top, with about two dozen related headlines beneath it - that takes up a lot of screen space (every time I refresh I have to collapse that space).<p>It would also be good to be able to collapse/expand by clicking on the headline count.<p>I'm not sure how I feel about the continuous scroll. Often I like that, but here I am unsure, but it may be because of my particular use case: I use LinkVisitor to mark all links as visited, so that next time I know which I've already read or decided to ignore. Having a fixed number of headlines makes it easier for me to recognize that it is time to hit cmd-fn-f2. If others get a lot of value from the continuous scroll, don't worry about it, mine is likely quite the edge case.
Seems really cool, it gets the great honour of being a pinned tab in my browser (ńext to HN).<p>I think a little icon that indicates the source next to the title (on the left) would be really useful to quickly scan what media ranks where and maybe only select the top stuff from your most trusted source etc.
I also have been exploring what it may mean to automagically categorize news content.. I took an approach on <a href="http://www.rivyr.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.rivyr.com</a> of following RSS feeds.. then reverse searching the titles against my product database to attempt to autoclassify news by product. Wish I could see your backend as that's where the secret sauce is but definitely understand not doing that ;)
This was something i was planning to build soon for myself. Great job on the UI.One thing kinda bugged me was when you select the source from the sidepanel it collapses for each selection not allowing to select another source without collapsing. I am on OSX Yosemite/Chrome-Version 41.0.2272.104. Also is the backend Elasticsearch?
Is the backend elasticsearch?
The related stories feature's cool. I made my own tool for reading HN (and some other sites) it's kind of different as it pulls the stories into a linear feed. I'll need to have a go at adding related stories. My site's <a href="http://www.serializer.io" rel="nofollow">http://www.serializer.io</a> if you're interested.
this is interesting - could you talk a bit about your solr schema ? In a very naive way I would be simply storing it all as a indexable text blob. Did you do anything more, just so that you can avoid a database ?