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Comment by TimothyFitz | Hacker News Reader

As usual, all HN feedback appreciated! -- Team Canvas

Would it be appropriate to reply with an image? http://canv.as/p/c76pe/reply/570523

The only odd thing was it's hard to link directly to images without having to see the original and then have the page snap down to the image. Also if you share a pic in facebook it shows the original not the modified one you want to link to. It would also be nice if I could log in with my facebook account rather than remembering my username/pass.

I had more laughs per pic than browsing an imgur feed, if that means anything. I think I'm going to spend more time here!

Thanks for the suggestions! The facebook thing is something we've wanted to do (and only recently could, reply links used to be anchor #hashes which means the server can't return different facebook image metadata based on them).

We've talked about facebook based login, and were holding off because we intend to lift the facebook requirement, but there are enough people requesting the feature that we'll probably reconsider.

Tim, you gotta do a writeup on the deployment/testing setup.

Agreed. I'd love to see what's behind Canvas.

I found a bug. Picture c73cy (570px × 850px) is scaled to 600px × 895px for no apparent reason.

Since you have a "best of" list, what's your approach to slightly differing duplicates - such as stretched or re-compressed ones?

"drag stickers to upvote" sounds like it would very very quickly get boring.

Also IMHO infinite scrollbars make for a terrible confusing and broken user experience.

Nice design apart from that though.

I've been fiddling with Canvas for a while and yeah, it does get boring. But other people continue to use it so it must have some entertainment value. Just not for me, or for you.

What I think Canvas lacks compared to 4chan's imageboards is actual discussion. I'm a regular 4channer and have been for years. Canvas emphasizes images at the expense of text posts. What I like about 4chan is the often amusing, roaming, and dare I say occasionally insightful conversations that take place. If 4chan is like a comic book, Canvas is just a stream of funny pictures. Not my thing, but could be fun for others.

> What I think Canvas lacks compared to 4chan's imageboards is actual discussion. I'm a regular 4channer and have been for years. Canvas emphasizes images at the expense of text posts. What I like about 4chan is the often amusing, roaming, and dare I say occasionally insightful conversations that take place. If 4chan is like a comic book, Canvas is just a stream of funny pictures. Not my thing, but could be fun for others.

Agree completely. It's something we're working on.

Idea: have a keypress+click for attaching stickers - so Q+LMB¹ would be smile, W+LMB would be awful, E+LMB would be classy, etc., you have 3 blocks of 9 keys on a QWERTY keyboard allowing 27 different sticker types to be added in this way.

I realise one could make more blocks or size them larger (eg 1+LMB, 2+LMB) but I think the visual match of 3x3 blocks and the hand-eye-coordination works better this way.

Any thoughts?

pbhj

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