Show HN: SnooBooks – Dive Deep into Reddit's Favorite Books
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Another neat feature would be to see top books of all time and for a specific year, instead of only specific months.
Looks a very tiny bit weird that when going to the next page from the first page, the "Previous" button shows up before the content has loaded.
Lastly, it might be a good idea to keep track of which comment sections have been expanded, either in sessionStorage or as a query parameter. I misclicked somewhere, and when I hit the back-button, the scroll position was off because I had earlier expanded a comment section.
You actually can explore a whole year at a time by selecting "-All-" for the month. Originally I had the ability to do the same with year, but it was painfully slow even with heavy caching. Something to revisit!
Thanks for the feedback on the page glitchiness as well. This was my first go at it with KnockoutJS, so I'm sure I did a hundred things wrong. I learned a lot, though!
If you like this, you should check out Hacker News Books (http://hackernewsbooks.com/) which was originally posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365693) here on HN by its creator, leandot. It was my inspiration for this project. I fell in love with it and wanted to do something similar for Reddit.
Good that you learned a lot - didn't know people still used KnockoutJS, but looks like you did well on this one.
Btw, another thing I noticed is that clicking the expand comments button a second time does another request to fetch the comments - might want to check client side if it's already fetched first, and also make sure that the requests are cacheable. Looks like there's some `no-cache` headers set. (btw2, I was in fact expecting it to toggle the comments, ie. close them, but that's another thing)
Also, it seems like you manage to rewrite the normal amazon links in comment bodies to add your affiliate code, but the smile.amazon.com-links remain unchanged. Not sure if this is intended or not, but might be worth checking out.
Thanks for the tip! Saw that post when it was on HN originally, also pretty cool :)