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How HN took it
8 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, slick design with an appealing unrolling animation
From 4 comments
Nice. There are many lifestream products but I like the design, particularly the the unrolling effect.
neilk on HNReally nice, well done. I had similar half-finished attempts some years back, but it was never as slick as this.
anarchitect on HNThis is beautiful. I can't wait for the source to be available so I can use it as the frontend for everything I've imported into a WordPress-powered lifestream using Keyring…
cfinke on HNI had a similar concept with allcni.com Your feed is much cleaner and functional, my design was more of an newspaper template. Screen Shot:…
allcni on HN
Modular per-site modules make adding new feeds easy
From 1 comment
Nailed it! I designed it from the start with this in mind. Each site has it's own module so I (or anyone) can just add them in and subtract as they please
davidhariri on HN
Objections
Broke Safari and iOS on iPads and crashed on mobile at launch
From 4 comments
The page crashed Safari (and iOS7, restarting my iPad) on multiple tries to load it.
ericras on HNIt crashes Safari on my iPad Air (latest version of iOS).
MikeCapone on HNCrashes Safari on iPad 2. Latest iOS.
RomP on HNCrashes Safari in iOS7 on iPad 3
tiemand on HN
Scroll animation breaks when dragging the scrollbar and renders poorly in Firefox 26
From 3 comments
The unrolling effect makes the page unreadable when you scroll by dragging the scrollbar handle however. It works fine when you scroll with the mousewheel but scrolling rapidly…
nacs on HNFirefox 26.0. I recorded a short video but the framerate makes it a bit hard to see the animation restarting (a few seconds into the video I start scrolling faster which makes…
nacs on HNDoesn't really render well on Firefox.
baby on HN
Unusable on Chrome for Android
From 1 comment
Pretty unusable on Chrome on my Android tab.
obeid on HN
Scrolling blocked when cursor is over the page, nearly causing a bounce
From 1 comment
FWIW I very nearly navigated away from this page and immediately dismissed it. I should be able to scroll no matter where my cursor is.
shocks on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 3 comments
This is really cool! Is the source code available anywhere?
songgao on HNHi, is there this code (frontend) on github?
leoplct on HNAny suggestions for accomplishing this in reverse? What I mean is the IndieWeb idea of 'Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere'. http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE It looks…
tombrossman on HN
Support more feeds such as App.net and Facebook via plugins
From 2 comments
Looks good. Might be an idea to allow people (once you open source) to add their own 'plugins', code they could write themselves to pull from different websites. I.e., someone…
h-go on HNwhat feeds do you plan to include in the future?
malditojavi on HN
Publish on own site and syndicate outward (POSSE)
From 1 comment
Any suggestions for accomplishing this in reverse? What I mean is the IndieWeb idea of 'Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere'. http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE It looks…
tombrossman on HN
Questions
Is the source code available?
From 2 comments
This is really cool! Is the source code available anywhere?
songgao on HNHi, is there this code (frontend) on github?
leoplct on HN
Which feeds will be included in future?
From 1 comment
what feeds do you plan to include in the future?
malditojavi on HN
Alternatives named
SweetCron lifestream software
From 2 comments
looks like a lifestream which were hot a few years ago. One I used was yongfook's sweetcron:…
toadi on HNI had SweetCron set-up and forgot about it. It's still up and going at http://kingkool68.com/ Looks like it broke at some point.
kingkool68 on HN
Hootsuite and OnlyWire
From 1 comment
There are services aimed at e.g. PR departments for enterprise that do something a little like what you've described. I believe https://hootsuite.com/ is this sort of thing, but…
bjackman on HN
Jetpack Publicize
From 1 comment
The Publicize module of the Jetpack WordPress plugin allows that for a limited set of services: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google+, and Path.…
cfinke on HN
FriendFeed
From 1 comment
I'm developing a very similar thing recently. Because nowadays everything you do will probably appear on the Internet, I call it 'automating your day recording'. There's more you…
frostnovazzz on HN