Colorvote.io
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color voting
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
4 positive, 45 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 31 critical, out of 83 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
Idea: 3 for, 19 againstDesign: 1 for, 6 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Oddly satisfying and fun to vote on colors
From 1 comment
This was oddly satisfying and I voted on a bunch of colors. Definitely a bias towards my personal preferences and also what I think would be useable for websites but fun idea!…
enahs-sf on HN
Objections
Colors are contextual; ranking without context is not useful
From 3 comments
This ranking is not useful. Color is appreciated or not depending on context. This ranking has no context.
miqueturner on HNIt' a fun idea, but colors are so contextual that putting them next to each other for votes gives a pretty useless data set.
simplify on HNIt's a nice toy, but I doubt its practical value as in design you deal with color palettes, not standalone colors. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that "the most popular"…
ivanhoe on HN
Too many colors (about 17 million) to rank meaningfully
From 2 comments
Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of…
ryanbrunner on HNI think nearly 17 million colours is too many! Maybe grouping close colours could be better. The “best” colours also seem really bad, I wonder if what they appear next to gives…
andy_ppp on HN
Results look inconsistent; same colors appear in both best and worst lists
From 3 comments
2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5 colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there, unless your goal is to find the most…
ralusek on HN#988edc Appears as fifth best and as third worst https://imgur.com/a/jZRQyt3
heliophobicdude on HNHuh, #987fb1 is in both Best and Worst lists (at the time I viewed the ranks).
excitom on HN
Ranks and results are hard to find in the interface
From 3 comments
Here I am clicking color after color like a dunce, wondering when I get to see the ranking. After 20-30 or so clicks I finally notice the ultra-tiny-low-contrast "Ranks" text. In…
kortex on HNI voted 15 times and no results
iso1631 on HNWhat am I looking on? How to see the rank of the colors?
lukaszkups on HN
Requests
Show results or top colors more clearly
From 2 comments
Excited to see some results from this. I was disappointed that there was no real payoff as an end user who voted. Any way to see the current overall status of like the top 100?
beeskneecaps on HNWhere is the results?
brian_herman on HN
Crawl the web and count actual colors used on pages
From 2 comments
Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.
mcv on HNI thought this would be a ranking using crawled data on the web… kind of disappointed.
google234123 on HN
Make hex codes copyable and keep them visible
From 1 comment
The hex codes cannot be selected/copied out which was disappointing, but perhaps worse is that the hex codes slowly fade away completely! I only noticed the first time because…
overlordalex on HN
Questions
How are the pairs chosen and how is the ranking computed
From 3 comments
I'm more interested in the algorithm behind the pairing. I wonder if it's randomly pairing colours or using something similar to adaptive comparative judgement.
qurashee on HNqq: How are the initial color codes getting generated? Is it from app.js? Please clarify. Thanks!
qainsights on HN2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5 colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there, unless your goal is to find the most…
ralusek on HN
Why are viewport size and user agent collected
From 2 comments
Why are you specifically capturing the pixel size of the viewport? and likewise the user agent separately from request headers?
eganist on HNCurious to understand why are you capturing inner width/height and the user-agent as part of JSON payload to server?
sangupta on HN
Alternatives named
colornames.org
From 1 comment
https://colornames.org/ Has 17.9% colors named already.
ollifi on HN
Colourlovers
From 1 comment
Reminds me a bit of Colourlovers[0]. That website is unfortunately rather bloated though. Obviously, the best color is #BADA55 [0] -…
yreg on HN