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erqqvg.com

67 points·there··12 comments

I'm surprised people haven't seen this before, considering how many times it's been posted on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/domain/erqqvg.com/top/?t=all

What's really interesting is how fast the votes come in now vs. when this released early last year before the 2009 giant uptick in popularity of Reddit.

Reminds me of some old (2006) Digg Labs experiments by Stamen Designs: http://stamen.com/clients/digg

Too bad labs.digg.com has been taken down by now...

Wow...that felt like the love child of Frogger and Tetris. Fun to watch, but not exactly a good use of time.

Easter egg: Rot13("reddit") = "erqqvg"

Seems to stop after a minute or two...

Seems to me that clicking on the column should open a new window/tab to that particular reddit.

That's a lot of upvotes and downvotes. The vizeddit is proabably good for marketing reddit.

Is this all done in HTML5?

wow this is really pretty!

How is getting the data?

EDIT: It sounds like periodic scraping coupled with a lot of made up data to add flavor.

I don't think it's made up. From what I recall yes it is periodic fetching in batches then replayed timings of the events.

Reddit has a pretty decent API, you can add ".json" or ".xml" to pretty much every URL (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/.xml).

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