Hackerstream
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Well designed and fun idea
From 3 comments
Well designed site, but if you do not mind my saying, what prevents me from returning to hackerstream.com is that the text in the left column moves while I am reading it. (I'd be…
hollerith on HNLove it! You've actually managed to make HN harder to navigate away from!
sawyer on HNSweet! It would be interesting to have a "pop-out" for my watch list, like a G-Chat has - so I can have that little watch window as an applet of sorts on the screen to the right.…
phlux on HN
Interesting to see the tech behind it
From 2 comments
With what and how did you implement this?
dshankar on HN/second. Curious to know the tech behind it. Node? Or something else?
SkyMarshal on HN
Objections
Page content moves while reading
From 1 comment
Well designed site, but if you do not mind my saying, what prevents me from returning to hackerstream.com is that the text in the left column moves while I am reading it. (I'd be…
hollerith on HN
Returns 502 errors under traffic
From 2 comments
I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway message...
solipsist on HNYeah, traffic issues :/ Hitting reload seems to help some of the time. I didn't expect this much interest. Trying to fix now.. Update: should be fixed now. Let me know if you see…
akkartik on HN
Not updating in real time, only polls every 30 seconds
From 2 comments
It wasn't updating in real time for me in Chrome, I'll give it another try later. Sweet idea!
sinaiman on HNOh I see, it's polling every 30 seconds :) I've tried Orbited on Rails with success, it does fake comet with an easy-to-use Javascript API so you can push messages to subscribed…
sinaiman on HN
Shortlist name is unclear
From 1 comment
Neat. "Shortlist" might not be the most apt title for the watched threads, though. . . calling it something like "Watchlist" or even just "Watch" might make it more clear at…
shawnee_ on HN
Requests
Watchlist should add parent story, not single comment
From 1 comment
Also: - Let me turn comments on and off, globally and for each story. - Adding an item to the watchlist adds only that comment, unless I click on the parent story in the stream.…
mrleinad on HN
Option to turn comments on and off
From 1 comment
Also: - Let me turn comments on and off, globally and for each story. - Adding an item to the watchlist adds only that comment, unless I click on the parent story in the stream.…
mrleinad on HN
Pop-out watchlist window
From 1 comment
Sweet! It would be interesting to have a "pop-out" for my watch list, like a G-Chat has - so I can have that little watch window as an applet of sorts on the screen to the right.…
phlux on HN
Reply notifications for own comments
From 1 comment
Sweet! It would be interesting to have a "pop-out" for my watch list, like a G-Chat has - so I can have that little watch window as an applet of sorts on the screen to the right.…
phlux on HN
Feedback without email client
From 1 comment
Feedback: Allow me to provide it without firing up my e-mail client.
mrleinad on HN
Questions
What technology was used to build it
From 2 comments
With what and how did you implement this?
dshankar on HN/second. Curious to know the tech behind it. Node? Or something else?
SkyMarshal on HN
How to avoid the text moving while reading
From 1 comment
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I've looked at a few options for that problem. There's twitter's approach, which is to never update the page, just a link at the top. There's the…
akkartik on HN
Alternatives named
Digg streaming site (tigris)
From 1 comment
When we (Digg) released our Streaming API, I threw together a similar site for Digg. You can see it at http://tigris.duruk.net and the code lives at…
cduruk on HN
Twitter and FriendFeed update approaches
From 1 comment
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I've looked at a few options for that problem. There's twitter's approach, which is to never update the page, just a link at the top. There's the…
akkartik on HN
Reddit orangered reply notifications
From 1 comment
Sweet! It would be interesting to have a "pop-out" for my watch list, like a G-Chat has - so I can have that little watch window as an applet of sorts on the screen to the right.…
phlux on HN