Show HN: Random Rijks – See a Random Artwork from the Amsterdam Rijks Museum

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1 pointstefanvdw13 comments

Hi all,

The Rijks Museum has an API which offers access to a large part of their collection, including high quality images. Now that museums are closed I wanted a way to experience art so I built Random Rijks. It will show you a random object from the Rijks Museum collection, including objects not usually on display.

Any feedback is welcome!

Lazy users want the “new random object” button in a fixed location (top of the page, just below the header, is a popular choice, as it doesn’t require CSS magic to make it reliable)

The current site keeps scroll state across clicks on that button, and so almost gets that, until you hit a particularly tall image.

I also think scaling images to fit the window size might be better for the lazy clicker (but it’s hard to do, given the large variance in title lengths)

Thanks for the feedback!

I wanted the image of the artwork to be in full view when you load the page so putting the button at the top might not be the solution as this pushes the image down. I'll definitely look into this though since it's a good point

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