Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

I'm surprised you aren't getting more love on this one. I've already added the site to my bookmarks bar. I love reddit primarily for the images.<p>Usually my browsing of reddit is done like this.<p>1. Click homepage.<p>2. Determine which links are images.<p>3. Click image link<p>4. Chuckle, or shrug<p>5. Two finger swipe back on my trackpad on lion<p>6. Scroll<p>7. Repeat 2 - 6<p>Now its<p>1. Go to Mongout 2. Click right 3. Repeat 2 ... again and again<p>I'm also a big fan of the progress bar. If there was no bar I'd feel ungrounded in the infinite space of reddit. Additionally, because its so addicting to look at reddit images, I can say to myself "I'll look at enough images that fills one progress bar"<p>Its super simple, and really well executed. Big time props!

I can't imagine using this over reddpics. Their tiled interface allows me to browse posts faster than the normal reddit interface. This in contrast feels slower than either, since you can only see a single image at a time.

You should preload the next image, so when I hit [right] key, it just shows up without delay.

I like it. Imgur actually has left / right arrow support as well. (Example: <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/ExxXR" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/gallery/ExxXR</a> then hit →) I find it works well for a few chuckles if I happen to be eating at my desk in search of some web bubblegum.

It's probably worth noting that in other parts of the English speaking world, the word "mong" is derogatory and offensive.<p>I'm not sure if "MongOut" is a derivative of MongoDB, but if you're aiming at a maintream global audience you might want to consider the sensitivities.

I just use a bookmarklet I wrote (<a href="https://gist.github.com/1572878" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1572878</a>), which enables me to go to any reddit page, and then click the bookmarklet to see all the images inline.

Very enjoyable.<p>Feature Requests:<p>1. Preload next image? My connection sucks so pre-loading would be extremely valuable.<p>2. I would also love to see the top comment for each photo. Though, I suppose that may make it less addicting and cause traffic to bleed back to Reddit.<p>Great work ^_^

Right, I'll just round up my suggestions and those I agreed with from other comments:<p>- In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Think "retard", only worse.<p>- Have this linked with your reddit account so you can up/down vote. Also, then you could, by default, show pics from the user's default subreddits. You should allow an user to add/remove subreddits to get pics from, independently from the user's default subreddits.<p>- Gamify this. Think up some sort of achievements (opting out has to be an option, of course). First step: you have that bar filling up, what about having a counter nearby, which increments everytime the bar fills?<p>- You should do some preloading up to a max of USER_CONFIGURABLE_NUMBER images, have a sane default like 1 or 2.<p>That's it for now.<p>Edit:<p>- I just got a imgur "this image is no longer available" thingy. I think you can scratch those from showing up entirely.<p>- You could add some sort of sharing feature. A permalink would be a nice step in that direction. I just found an image I'd like to share with a friend and I noticed mongout wasn't gonna be a part of that process.

I've been using Flipboard[1] on the iPad to read pic heavy subreddits that I don't necessarily want to see everything from but like to browse from time to time.<p>Yahoo pipes[2] turns the subreddit's top stories .json representation into an RSS feed, and then Twitterfeed[3] posts that RSS feed to a custom twitter account which I can then follow on Flipboard.<p>I got this setup from <a href="http://miguelrios.org/reddit-in-flipboard/" rel="nofollow">http://miguelrios.org/reddit-in-flipboard/</a> and a handy trick is to combine subreddits. So for example I have the 'SFW Porn Network' reddits all combined using the + e.g., /r/earthporn+cityporn+... etc.<p>[1]: <a href="http://flipboard.com/" rel="nofollow">http://flipboard.com/</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/" rel="nofollow">http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/" rel="nofollow">http://twitterfeed.com/</a>

Awesome work! -- I've also built something that is, awkwardly, nearly exactly the same. Check out <a href="http://imgist.com" rel="nofollow">http://imgist.com</a>

Reminds me of the iPad app Prism: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/prism-the-image-browser/id488236799?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/prism-the-image-browser/id488...</a>

Well done. Kept me engaged to the last picture. A couple of observations though:<p>The left-right keys still advance to the previous / next picture in the background, when the comments are in the foreground. Suggest that a left or right hides the comments as well as moving forward or back.<p>I second the comment made elsewhere on pre-loading the next picture to save your users waiting for the load-time.<p>How do I navigate the comments with the keyboard? I use the cursor keys to scroll down, and it doesn't work, as up / down is mapped to show / hide comments.

This is basically why I hate the internet.

I like the idea - but it doesn't feel "addictive" yet.<p>Feature request: filter out photos of cats.

Here's a lower-fi version<p><a href="http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.com;geek;offbeat" rel="nofollow">http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.c...</a><p>hack the URL to control subreddits<p>source here <a href="https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr</a>

Very nicely made. My only criticism is the purple progress bar- what's the point of it? I thought I was going to run out of images when it filled up, but it just kept going. Is that filling an indication that it's going to yesterday's posts? It feels unneeded, it's distracting.

I love the idea of this, but one of the problems with building products like this is that it's basically other people's content (or other people's other people's content...) and is probably hard to scale a business around properly.

We've got some pretty granular analytics on the site. It'll be interesting to measure how much people are engaging with it. We'll probably write a blog post sometime over the next few days regarding this if anyone is interested.

I made something similar last week (<a href="http://image-roulette.com/" rel="nofollow">http://image-roulette.com/</a>), but it just uses imgur itself, instead of the reddit-curated images.<p>I think your approach was better.

You mean other than just using reddit?

Put on bigger controls for embedded devices that have no keyboard.

Down arrow isn't working for me. What is it supposed to do?

The only thing I really want is better urls. If I see an image/thread I want to share I would love to just be able to simply copy the url.

You must be against the advancement of the human race. Don't we all spend enough time on Reddit already?<p>Just kidding, this is excellent. Great job!

1. Make ESC close zoomed images.<p>2. Let me get the URL of the reddit page somehow.<p>3. Add tooltips for the arrows - what does the down arrow do?

If you only want to see the images I made a bookmarklet [1] that inlines them, &#38; does imgur images smartly too. It's good for f7u12, at least.<p>[1] <a href="http://fuseki.net/home/linked-images-bookmarklet.html" rel="nofollow">http://fuseki.net/home/linked-images-bookmarklet.html</a>

Wow, the image came up when I first loaded that page was absolutely NSFW. Yikes. Be careful.

Seriously, I enjoy visiting HN and loading all the articles and comments in a new tab that appeal to me then slowly going through them but since first landing on this beauty I've been clicking through images for the last hour!

This site's really slick! Do you think you could add an auto-play feature so it'll be a slideshow? I've got two monitors hooked up and it'd be a good screen filler to have that just running on one screen.

Neat! Intuitive, no explanation needed except for the diagram of the arrow keys below. Suggestion: Add a timer to show people how much time they waste (of course, not everybody wants to see that).

Would be cool if you added pushState or /#/ history. You can for example use history.js: <a href="https://github.com/balupton/history.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/balupton/history.js</a>

I made something similar, but as a desktop app. It does all web pages, not just images.<p><a href="https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon/wiki</a>

Thanks. There went 40min.

Slick site! It would be good if going back through the navigation history took you through the images you had viewed. Currently it just goes in and out of thread view.

I love the interface. It would be great if you could add the ability to login, upvote/downvote (near the comments icon). Realtime reddit content would be great.

I like this a lot. It's very difficult to hit the arrow buttons on an iPhone, though. An alternative navigation method or larger hit areas would be helpful.

Thanks for the feedback!<p>We've pushed up a new version:<p>- preloads the next image, slightly faster than before.<p>- smarter ordering, the newest and best content is pushed in hourly.<p>- finally, a tweet button to spread the love.

I am in love with it. Never browsed Reddit with so much enthusiasm as I am doing it now. Like it so much, I created an account; I never cared for one before.<p>Thank you!

Delicious. An easy up/down vote way would be great.

Might defeat the purpose but you should add top comments as well. Part of the fun of browsing is the added contextual humor :)

I've been using <a href="http://pics.fefoo.com" rel="nofollow">http://pics.fefoo.com</a> for a long time for the same purpose.

I just wasted 3 hours on this (in a good way).

Tech issue, can't scroll comments on the iPad.

Addictive is an understatement. You should all be killed before you murder and further productivity!<p>Seriously, nice job, very cool.

What about imgur's ad revenue? If you're circumventing that, then you're shooting your very platform in the foot.

Great job guys. Add in the support for subreddits and you've got yourself an instantly addictive product!

My internet connection maybe slow, but there was a lot of load time between pictures.<p>But did use it for like 10 minutes.

<a href="http://pics.fefoo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pics.fefoo.com/</a><p>I had made something similar a while back.

wow. this is amazing, I always wanted some like this. Is there any way we can choose subreddit?

So did I: <a href="http://imgonly.info" rel="nofollow">http://imgonly.info</a>

Y u post it here instead of reddit? jackiechan.jpg (its nice btw :)

Isn't the addictive way to browse pictures on reddit, reddit?

Thank you, I just lost an hour of my life. Addictive, check.

Good work. It's pretty clean.<p>Consider mapping a key to share links too

Great site! What's the stack this is built on?

Awesome man, well done its so captivating!!

you might as well use this: <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/gallery</a>

Now all it needs is some good content

I love not having to use my mouse.

I would put the title on top.

I think you need a favicon =)

Make this for 9gag! Please.

so basically, you are just relinking imgur images? really?

you should show the top couple comments

I do not like these kind of services because they take away ad revenue from the sites providing and generating that content.<p>"Mongout" seems to do this for reddit and imgur, both sites where I willfully disable my ad-blocker.

I really like this idea and the simplicity of it! Great work, and can't wait to see what future iterations bring!

Sorry, clicking next, and waiting 5 seconds before seeing the next image is not what I'm after.

Something needs to happen when you fill the bar, otherwise, why is it changing?

It is addictive but the little arrows are a pain on the iPhone.