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27 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score +0.54.
Design: 7 for, 0 againstIdea: 7 for, 0 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Zoomable, smooth navigation feels like flipping physical pages.
From 3 comments
This is beautiful! I love this so much, as it makes it so simple and intuitive to drop into a sense of curiosity, exploration, serendipity, scanning around, seeing what catches…
theturtle32 on HNYou've done an amazing job. This is buttery-smooth even when zooming in. Awesome!
utopcell on HNThe navigation is very nice and snappy. It gets out of the way. Most UIs for browsing and navigating material feel constricted, like you're handling some kind of radioactive…
lo_zamoyski on HN
Nostalgia for reading BYTE in the 1980s.
From 3 comments
I love that this exists. I bought BYTE for many years and this is bringing back fond memories. The best printed ads I’ve ever seen, though, were on WIRED. Doing the same for that…
rcarmo on HNJust fabulous. Reading Byte in the Science Library at Uni while studying accounting was one of the things that got me interested in computing so many years ago. Thank you!
aryehof on HNSo much of my childhood in one zoomable image. This is incredible.
browningstreet on HN
Search is useful for finding articles.
From 1 comment
a nice feature would be similar to what searching google books does. the results highlight in yellow (though I'd prefer a way to clear highlighting after seeing where I'm…
grimgrin on HN
Objections
Search results are inaccurate or hard to use.
From 3 comments
Its certainly beautiful to look at but the search capability itself is not very good.
don_searchcraft on HNI was unable to find information mentioned in some ads, and couldn't figure out why. The scanned text was reasonably legible that I would assume it would have OCRed correctly.
kmoser on HNa nice feature would be similar to what searching google books does. the results highlight in yellow (though I'd prefer a way to clear highlighting after seeing where I'm…
grimgrin on HN
Pan and zoom feel sluggish or over-damped.
From 2 comments
I'll echo all the praise from other posters, and offer one tiny bit of criticism: I don't like the motion damping (or whatever it's called) when panning/zooming around. It feels…
encom on HNI wanted to suggest a tweak to this cool project: The panning and zooming feel very sluggish. I'm not sure if there's a technical reason it needs to be that way, but if the…
trafnar on HN
Requests
Open source the implementation.
From 1 comment
Beautiful. What a wonderful way to navigate a periodical. Any chance you could open source this implementation? There are plenty of magazines that I'd love to search in this…
oidar on HN
Put search query in the URL.
From 1 comment
a nice feature would be similar to what searching google books does. the results highlight in yellow (though I'd prefer a way to clear highlighting after seeing where I'm…
grimgrin on HN
Apply the same approach to other magazines.
From 3 comments
Same! This is really awesome! I'm hoping it's generalizeable enough to do with something like Game Informer, or other magazines. Seems like the underlying tech is just "load…
catapart on HNBeautiful. What a wonderful way to navigate a periodical. Any chance you could open source this implementation? There are plenty of magazines that I'd love to search in this…
oidar on HNI love that this exists. I bought BYTE for many years and this is bringing back fond memories. The best printed ads I’ve ever seen, though, were on WIRED. Doing the same for that…
rcarmo on HN
Questions
How to search for OS/2?
From 1 comment
I am trying to search for OS/2 but nothing comes out. Any ideas?
kwanbix on HN
Alternatives named
Eagle Mode zoomable interface.
From 1 comment
This is the sort of thing that would be perfect to view from within Eagle Mode (https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/).
Gormo on HN
dezoomify-rs for downloading deep zoom images.
From 1 comment
dezoomify-rs https://byte.tsundoku.io/byte_files/10/0_0.jpg Found the following zoom levels: 0. byte (Deep Zoom Image) (868480 x 453747 pixels, 376956 tiles) ... I think, I'll…
Eriks on HN