Topiama
Consumer and social
reddit reader
SHOW HN2012
263points
65comments
#52of 1,677 in 2012
Top 4%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 7 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 10 for, 2 againstDesign: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Much easier to scan than Reddit's IAmA view
From 3 comments
Surprisingly compelling. The IAmA's are some of Reddit's best content, and this is so much easier to scan than a real IAmA thread. Thanks!
achompas on HNReally enjoyed this... so much easier than navigating through hundreds of comments on Reddit's main interface
unwiredben on HNThis is MUCH better than the reddit version. If they're okay with you doing this, I whole-heartedly support your efforts here and wish you the best of luck with this endeavor
ebun on HN
Filters out fluff and keeps the best Q&A
From 2 comments
Very cool. It picks all the important stuff and presents it sans the fluff. Where do I subscribe? Really, where's the rss feed for new AMAs? Also, links to questions in their…
spindritf on HNVery very awesome! I love IAmA's, but the signal to noise ratio is relatively low, so that I can only bear it for about 1 page. This does a fantastic job in separating out the…
steve8918 on HN
Objections
Font size and typography hard to read
From 3 comments
I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, the problem I encountered (which I couldn't solve) is how to effectively and automatically find not just the questions…
citricsquid on HNThe concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the…
redslazer on HNYes I much prefer this format, great job. The only thing thing that I don't like is that the questions are hard to read for me. Maybe because they're large blocks of text in bold.
lukevdp on HN
Missing nested comments and original context
From 3 comments
It looks like you grabbed every comment by the OP along with the comment it was a response too. In at least one instance, I see a situation where someone asked a question, I (not…
sandollars on HNVery cool. Reading the Nate Phelps AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v99eg/iaman_exmember_of_the_westboro_baptist_church/ Right now the top-rated comment by Nate Phelps…
pygorex on HNI like this, although I do think it would be better if each comment had a permalink back to the original so that we could see all the responses, not just the one by the person…
Alex3917 on HN
Legality of republishing Reddit content
From 3 comments
I have emailed Reddit about the legality of this project. (Have not received a response yet) So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site. So consider this a…
xpose2000 on HNScraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.
jawns on HNI figured displaying their content in full is illegal.
xpose2000 on HN
Requests
RSS feed for new IAmAs
From 3 comments
Very cool. It picks all the important stuff and presents it sans the fluff. Where do I subscribe? Really, where's the rss feed for new AMAs? Also, links to questions in their…
spindritf on HNThis is great! I second the request for an RSS feed for the new IAMAs. Thanks for the site!
joshschreuder on HNRSS Please!
samspot on HN
Permalinks to original Reddit threads
From 3 comments
I like this, although I do think it would be better if each comment had a permalink back to the original so that we could see all the responses, not just the one by the person…
Alex3917 on HNThis is awesome, so much cleaner and easier to read. I hope it stays online. I'd make questions link to the original comment threads on Reddit, though. Sometimes comments by…
waxjar on HNThere definitely need to be context links to the original comments.
comex on HN
Show nested question threading
From 2 comments
Some questions are in response to other questions - some indentation to show this might be handy.
TazeTSchnitzel on HNI ran into the same problem. I started a pet project that involved scraping reddit (though for a different purpose than AMAs). Their robots.txt and an admin writeup from…
Gnolfo on HN
Chrome extension version
From 2 comments
This is great, would love to see it as a chrome extension!
jonmarkgo on HNWhy not build this as a browser extension or Greasemonkey script?
saurik on HN
Questions
Is it legal to scrape and republish Reddit content?
From 2 comments
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
twistedanimator on HNScraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.
jawns on HN
Why not use Reddit's API instead of scraping?
From 2 comments
Why not just use their API instead of scraping? https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
bostonvaulter2 on HNWhy were you scraping? They offer a pretty good API.
pavel_lishin on HN
Alternatives named
reddit.com/r/tabled
From 2 comments
An alternative that we know is legal, you can use http://reddit.com/r/tabled. To expand on that, you could create a stylesheet or such that modified the look of it. Something…
kmfrk on HNThere used to be a comment bot/person who put all the reddit AMA questions into a tabular format - I recently discovered it has a pretty useful subreddit:…
intended on HN
Greasemonkey script or browser extension
From 1 comment
Why not build this as a browser extension or Greasemonkey script?
saurik on HN