Comment by franciscoapinto | Hacker News Reader

Comment by franciscoapinto | Hacker News Reader

franciscoapinto

Right, I'll just round up my suggestions and those I agreed with from other comments:

- In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Think "retard", only worse.

- Have this linked with your reddit account so you can up/down vote. Also, then you could, by default, show pics from the user's default subreddits. You should allow an user to add/remove subreddits to get pics from, independently from the user's default subreddits.

- Gamify this. Think up some sort of achievements (opting out has to be an option, of course). First step: you have that bar filling up, what about having a counter nearby, which increments everytime the bar fills?

- You should do some preloading up to a max of USER_CONFIGURABLE_NUMBER images, have a sane default like 1 or 2.

That's it for now.

Edit:

- I just got a imgur "this image is no longer available" thingy. I think you can scratch those from showing up entirely.

- You could add some sort of sharing feature. A permalink would be a nice step in that direction. I just found an image I'd like to share with a friend and I noticed mongout wasn't gonna be a part of that process.

Thanks for your feedback.

- We didn't realise that mongo had such a negative connotation Portuguese - in british english it doesn't. We'll probably stick with it for the time being but change it if we offend people.

- Yes, we really want to add in a way to select different subreddits. Not too sure about letting people sign in though but definitely a good idea.

- We might go for non-obtrusive game mechanics, so the progress bar + points + leaderboard + tweet progress. It just didn't make it into this release.

- Preloading images is a good idea that we didn't think about.

Yeah, make them non-obtrusive. I'd like to see a div popup every now and then saying:

Achievement unlocked:

I should be working

Browse for one hour straight.

Although that adds some complexity to the codebase, of course.

Yes, subreddits are a must. Without rage comics or advice animals it's of little use to me!

Mongo most definitely has negative connotations in British English, though not as much as Mong afaik

I wouldn't worry about offending people. These guys seem to be doing alright: http://www.mongodb.org/

> - In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Think "retard", only worse.

Were they going for "mongo" when they called it "mongout"?

No, I don't think so. I've heard the phrase "to mong out" before. But still, the word is in the URL. Just like how Expert's exchange didn't mean to create a reference to gender reassignment with expertsexchange.com.

penisland.com therapistfinder.com whorepresents.com :)

I'm fairly sure not, but it was one of the first things that I thought about when reading the URL.

The portuguese/brazillian web users are suckers for this sort of quick-fix, instant-gratification entertainment [1]. I, personally, would take no chances with the apps name. It wouldn't be the first time the portuguese language had a play on significant naming decisions [2] :)

[1] http://www.appappeal.com/maps/9gag/

[2] https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/19/1025...

Pretty un-pc in english as well.

Historically mong is an abbreviation of mongoloid, as in mongoloidism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome)

I'm Portuguese too, and "mongo" is not even a word, let alone a nasty one. "Mongolóide" is a nasty insult, but is not usually reduced to "mongo".

It is a very offensive shortened form of "mongolóide" where I hail from.

I never heard this before, but it just clicked why the brute from Blazing Saddles was named/called "Mongo".

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