Creator here, I would love to hear any feedback you all have.
I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.
I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.
But why on earth redirecting to news.ycombinator.org? The official one is .com I think, and in the past couple years I've been visiting HN I've never seen anyone using .org (people link to previous HN threads all the time, and they all end in .com), so I think you should redirect people to .com domain.
And It's not really important, but just FYI: It crashed when I tried zooming on iPad 2 (iOS 5.1.1). It's the second time ever my iPad's Safari crashes (first time being Linux's network on Github, that crashes every single browser on every platform, so don't even try opening it: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/network)*.
You actually _can_ look at up to the past 12 hours if you change the URL manually, but I have found the graph to be less useful from 6-12 hours
How much data were you looking at when the iPad crashed? I use this daily on the new iPad and havent experienced any problems unless there was a ton of data on the screen
Some ideas based on my similar project over at http://hn4d.com.
Another are of interest that I track is the change in the number of comments over time. This also provides an indication of current activity and interest over time.
Since you have historic data, perhaps a search would be useful. It might be interesting to see "longest lasting posts" or posts with the "greatest increase."
In any case - very nice site, well implemented and easy to understand.
Great suggestions, thanks
Perhaps a log scale on the y-axis would improve readability?