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36points
22comments
#867of 2,272 in 2014
Top 39%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.

Design: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 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

  • Smooth and neat idea

    From 3 comments
    • Nice project. Very smooth. You should make a todo list app out of this. The tree layout would make it very easy to organize projects and tasks. One thing: you should increase the…
      ChrisNorstrom on HN
    • smooth. Though, for some reason it couldn't parse my top-level address. Worked fine if I provided a second level URL
      kitwalker12 on HN
    • Neat idea. At first it wasn't completely obvious to me that you could click on a node to expand it. You might want to add just a little bit of text to help people out there.…
      diasks2 on HN

Objections

  • No obvious click-to-expand affordance

    From 1 comment
    • Neat idea. At first it wasn't completely obvious to me that you could click on a node to expand it. You might want to add just a little bit of text to help people out there.…
      diasks2 on HN
  • Tree overflows horizontally and cannot scroll right

    From 3 comments
    • Neat idea. At first it wasn't completely obvious to me that you could click on a node to expand it. You might want to add just a little bit of text to help people out there.…
      diasks2 on HN
    • Cool! Can't scroll right though? :(
      vladikoff on HN
    • firefox 29 on ubuntu 14.04. Unable to scroll right when the tree expands past the windows width.
      runarberg on HN
  • Clickable circles too small to hit

    From 1 comment
    • Nice project. Very smooth. You should make a todo list app out of this. The tree layout would make it very easy to organize projects and tasks. One thing: you should increase the…
      ChrisNorstrom on HN
  • Loading spinner hangs on some URLs

    From 1 comment
    • Entered http://www.google.com, got infinite loading spinner.
      gisenberg on HN

Requests

  • Add minimum size to clickable circles

    From 1 comment
    • A minimum is coming. I have a friend and colleague who's hopefully going to help me make the area of the circles be proportional to the size instead of the radius. Then we'll…
      peterbe on HN
  • Show more levels unfolded by default

    From 1 comment
    • nice, i'd prefer more to be unfolded from the get-go. maybe 3 levels
      leeoniya on HN
  • Support shadow DOM

    From 1 comment
    • Make this go into the shadow DOM too. http://htmltree.peterbe.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fkaran.github.io%2Fx-meme%2Fcomponents%2Fx-meme%2Fdemo.html
      karangoeluw on HN

Questions

  • Why top-level URLs fail to parse

    From 1 comment
    • smooth. Though, for some reason it couldn't parse my top-level address. Worked fine if I provided a second level URL
      kitwalker12 on HN

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