Map of Polish Composers

Learning and science

music history reference

SHOW HN2019

73points
12comments
#641of 2,195 in 2019
Top 30%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.

Execution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 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

  • Looks fantastic and impressive

    From 2 comments
    • Wow, this is fantastic! Is this open sourced, anywhere?
      keehun on HN
    • It's amazing. Not that I'm interested in Polish composers specifically. If you could find a way to generate these for different fields (mathematicians in specific domains,…
      avaku on HN

Objections

  • UI is not intuitive; scrolling and navigation are unclear

    From 1 comment
    • The UI is not very intuitive: - I clicked Karol Szymanowski and I didn't notice I can scroll to see the content - only after reading HN comment I figured out I missed something.…
      ed_balls on HN
  • Search and request handling are buggy

    From 1 comment
    • Seems very buggy due to handling of requests - some examples: - if I'll search for "Zagajewski", then search for "Fryderyk", I still get "Zagajewski Artur" in results; what…
      eithed on HN
  • Firefox users cannot scroll articles

    From 1 comment
    • On Firefox 60.6.3, when I click on a composer’s name and an article pops up, I am unable to scroll down in that article. Consequently, I can only view the first lines of any…
      Mediterraneo10 on HN
  • Missing some composers, including video game composers

    From 1 comment
    • Lacks 3 most successful Polish composers of last few years: Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikołaj Stroiński, Adam Skorupa They created music for many video games, including the Witcher…
      ajuc on HN

Requests

  • Open source the code

    From 1 comment
    • Wow, this is fantastic! Is this open sourced, anywhere?
      keehun on HN
  • Fix audio player seeking and skip behaviour

    From 2 comments
    • The UI is not very intuitive: - I clicked Karol Szymanowski and I didn't notice I can scroll to see the content - only after reading HN comment I figured out I missed something.…
      ed_balls on HN
    • When playing a song I can't drag the time mark.
      julienreszka on HN
  • Apply the approach to other fields

    From 1 comment
    • It's amazing. Not that I'm interested in Polish composers specifically. If you could find a way to generate these for different fields (mathematicians in specific domains,…
      avaku on HN

Questions

  • Why the timeline starts in the early 20th century rather than earlier

    From 1 comment
    • Seems to start at the early 20th century, makes one curious why not earlier,to have space for Chopin?
      billfruit on HN

Alternatives named

  • theymadethat.com, a similar IMDB-style platform for any field

    From 1 comment
    • I have a platform for that https://theymadethat.com/ The UI still needs work (especially for mobile) and there's a lot of missing data, but the platform itself is up and running.…
      chaostheory on HN

Category, keywords, summaries and labels on this page were made by AI (Thread Reader v2) and not checked by hand. Each point links to the comments it came from.

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