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32 positive, 53 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 14 critical, out of 101 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.

Design: 6 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 4 for, 1 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Impressive cost-efficient hosting and caching

    From 2 comments
    • This is incredible. How are you hosting all this? There's got to be considerable cost. Meanwhile, this is a genuinely great way to browse through all these files. Seriously…
      joymonger on HN
    • The cost optimization here is impressive - $10 for millions of visitors using Next.js + Vercel + Cloudflare R2 (free egress). I'm building an analytics SaaS with a similar stack…
      yoan9224 on HN
  • Better browsing experience than the DOJ UI

    From 2 comments
  • Intuitive way to view the files

    From 1 comment
    • Keep up the good work boys this is great stuff and is actually a pretty intuitive way to view the files, ive been sharing it for weeks now.
      sieep on HN

Objections

  • Missing back button and captions in some views

    From 2 comments
  • Some Amazon order entries appear inaccurate or duplicated

    From 1 comment
    • I know I already made a comment but I am now going through the Amazon list and noticing some inaccuracies. Not rly sure if you guys care bc the point is to expose the things he…
      bbjs on HN
  • Privacy concerns about publishing private emails

    From 1 comment
    • How can you post those emails and make a joke out of them - they have this footer that clearly states that if you are not a recipient you must delete the email immediately. Whole…
      dostick on HN

Requests

  • Add zip downloads of datasets

    From 2 comments
    • Please make the zip files availible for all three dataset 8's! The number of files on voidzilla's video is different than the number availible from all three on jmail. There is…
      bbjs on HN
    • Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn’t have a mass download option that I could find.
      rynn on HN
  • Add previous/next navigation for images

    From 1 comment
    • Incredible! Great work! One suggestion: please add previous/next navigation on the images, so that one doesnt have to open an image, close, open again.
      tacker2000 on HN
  • Open-source the project

    From 1 comment
    • Wow, that’s impressive! Are you planning to open-source the project? =)
      vldszn on HN

Questions

  • Where the data was obtained

    From 1 comment
    • Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn’t have a mass download option that I could find.
      rynn on HN
  • How complete the material is and whether it is over-redacted

    From 1 comment
    • How complete is the material? I've seen "experts" in Swedish news paper DN claim so much is censored it looks like a cover up. Has that been your impression too?
      amarant on HN

Alternatives named

  • DOJ Epstein disclosures site

    From 1 comment
    • Way better than the DOJ UI but a pity the photo captions got stripped away
      anjel on HN
  • Gmail

    From 2 comments
    • You added icons and functionality to go to the beginning or end of search/inbox - Something that gmail just has never budged on having and always annoyed me! One of the first…
      InMice on HN
    • Why does this site work better on mobile than the real google suite. Funny stuff
      hn-acct on HN

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