This is really off topic, but wow I think imgur is finally unusable on mobile.
I just spend the last couple minutes trying to view that picture and had nothing but issues.
It first opened in the imgur app, but there it only showed a zoomed out preview which I can't just zoom in on, I need to click to open it again larger but then it wouldn't let me zoom past a given point. So I uninstalled the app, re opened the link and it loaded in their web UI, which had the same issue as the mobile (can't zoom enough). I then long pressed the image, opened it in a new tab, had to modify the URL to remove the "fidelity=medium" in the URL, and I could finally view the image in my browser and zoom in on it...
I don't even try to open imgur links on mobile anymore. For the past month or so, it doesn't even load, I get a black screen. And I refuse to install their app in order to use a website. Same with reddit and Twitter.
Maybe I'm an exception, but smartphones always had terrible usability for me.
Yea, why not a URL right to the raw image? That technology existed for decades. Image search site results are the same thing: I just want the raw image URL! How could that be so hard?
There’s a chrome extension to revert Google images to the old behavior. If you can get over the name (Make Google Images Great Again) it’s a really nice and small widget.
Because they can't make money off of direct image linking. Monetization is where all the image hosting platforms ended up going bad. Imgur is not too bad but they've added a few features that just make it harder. On desktop, I'm glad you can still just right-click and copy image URL.
I understand they need some ads, but even then it's really easy. The unnecessary ajax-loading and overcomplicated interface did it in. Why is ajax so bad on mobile anyway? Like how the new mobile reddit takes 30 seconds to load on my phone.
All the comments were so negative (not buying iPhone, selling AAPL stock, Apple will sell less than 10 million iPhones). It's interesting how many people missed the importance of iPhone to the company and to the world.
It looks like there's a beat frequency. The traffic goes up and down weekly, and probably there's less traffic on the weekends (yay! HN gets out on the weekends). But it seems like there are 6 months cycles as well. I wonder why, and what an FFT of this time series looks like, or what a sliding window of the FFT looks like.
I'm looking at the labels and quickly realizing that I don't have a clue when I first started reading Hacker News. I kept going back and forth finding stories that I remember reading and important stories that I completely missed.
I thought that I had only recently made an account only to realize that I had made this account 4 years ago. I suppose the effect is amplified since HN hasn't had any distinct "eras", be them in design, site rules or community.
You can also
follow the link, go to Dropbox web and select direct download from the top right dots menu. That gives you a version that is fully zoomable.
I just visited the Dropbox link on my phone, long press on the image -> open in new tab. It opened the full resolution image with the ability to zoom and pan at will.
The graph shows that as HN traffic has grown, traffic swings have become even larger. This means that the majority of HN growth has been strongly in one-time zone. Another observation is that traffic swings have very sharp peaks which means HN ranking algorithms need to be extraordinarily robust to not depend on the availability of huge traffic. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case as you can see stories that get ranked on top are pretty much random. I think we would be shocked to see qualities of stories that got ranked on the bottom of these daily traffic cycles. I'd say HN is a very nice challenging research problem for collaborative filtering with highly fluctuating traffic.
Not sure if it's a direct causal relationship. dang can better tell.
The graph in this case ended up being just a base layer for some interesting internet stories, while paying some tribute to HN for the great place it is.
The data looks a bit like its time resolution is too limited to resolve all the peaks properly. There are some uncharacteristically slow weeks that almost seem like their peaks just fell between two data points.
I came here to say basically the same thing. The flat but slight growth to me, speaks to the health of the community. Its not like high quality "hackers"/etc are as a population growing exponentially.
I notice the iPhone SE, the phone Apple stubbornly refuses to update, is the single most traffic-generating phone ever discussed here on HN, even at its announcement.
Maybe that’s just me, but you know, I would assume that means something.
