holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
> every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling.
Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.
When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.
There may be a message in that.
> It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about.
IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.
> very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about
If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.
So he's the calm one, and you almost damaged a relationship with this person. I can possibly see these 3 people in question mentioning to the headhunter that your personality might not mesh well with other people.
I agree to an extent, but doesn't the NYPD have trucks that go around and scan on the inside of buildings? There's no checks and balance in place right now to prevent them from abusing people's privacy...
This is valid criticism. The reason why I built this application was to have a constant stream of updates on where the user is and to make it easy to meet-up with my friends (it gives users the ability to create meet-up points).
I should clarify the fragmentation is with existing real-time location applications (excluding iMessages which I will get to in one second). They usually have an expiration date w/ the amount of time that you are able to share your location with, there's no way to have separate "channels" with who you want to share your location with, and there are some apps that don't have messaging built in with it.
Meeting-up with a user then involves opening up a group messaging app, and describing what they are seeing, and toggling back and forth between the map. So the fragmentation is in-reference to these real-time location focused applications where it's either lacking, group messaging, meeting-up, or not incorporating turn-by-turn directions.
In regards to iMessages. It's about context. I'm usually opening iMessages to have conversations, and while it supports the ability to toggle your location to the respective users. Personally, there's just something mentally off-putting trying to remember to turn it off in iMessages. So I guess in that regard, you're absolutely right it will stay fragmented between iMessages and Owlorbit which I should re-word.
Thanks for your feedback! By the way, I am working on the Android Port.
Hmm, well right now users are complaining it's too easy to view other people's boards because the url is https://www.taskfort.com/view/10
The only way to not view a person's board is if it's private.. There are some services that for their pages will have id's that are 7 or so characters long, and very compact, the uuid you're referencing seems kind of ugly.
I would still keep my incremental ID in the table as a PK, but maybe I could generate a new value per row for a public URL ID. That public url id could be based off of their PK but I don't know what would be the best way to generate a short url id w/ the PK as a key.
It still needs a little bit of refinement, but I thought this might be a useful feature to have for people who want to include a kanban board on their own website.
Also, you can view updates happening in the widget if the person logged in is modifying the board.
It still needs a little bit of refinement, but I thought this might be a useful feature to have for people who want to include a kanban board on their own website.
Also, you can view updates happening in the widget if the person logged in is modifying the board.
