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43 pointsdmvaldman13 comments

Developer here. Feedback would be much appreciated. I should also shout out to Firebase for the realtime backend, and Backbone.js, for making my javascript a little less of spaghetti code.

The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced?

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Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I keep trying to do it, and sometimes it works. Sometimes nothing happens, or I just highlight text; that target's pretty small. (It's particularly annoying when it cuts off a comment I'd like to read.)

Tried to leave a reply, and then it said "Enter a username". Changed my mind, couldn't get back to the commentary without reloading the page.

Chrome / Windows 7

Thanks for the feedback! Scrolling works best by using a mousewheel or trackpad. I agree it's not ergonomic for the click and drag approach, and adding width would help that.

We ask for a username only to give a unique identifier for a comment, and so that you can see which comments are yours. We don't ask for an email or social network link because frankly, I dislike demos that do :-P

Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to.

I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the last half was pre-annotated, at least with the questions and factcheck.org references. It's a nice way to watch.

The scrolling works well. It's a little weird, though, that it takes the mousewheel scrolling when I'm mousing over the comments. It makes sense, now that I've used it, it was just unexpected enough that I didn't think to try it the first time -- I wanted to focus on the element first.

I see now that it's acknowledging the mouseover focus by making the scrollbar visible, but maybe that should be more visually obvious. I didn't see it at first.

I like what you're doing. Here are my thoughts:

The widget on the right side looks cool, but the UX overall doesn't make sense for me because I don't want to rewatch the debate or scroll through that tiny region. Is there another way you could structure the information that lets me quickly know the context of the fact-check was, then read the blurb? What you've collected is more interesting to me; I just need to be able to watch the debate clip that will give me context.

Thanks! I like your idea of summary/blurb. The point of the widget is to parse video, so clarity is key. However we're trying to make a general purpose tool with a crowd-sourcing element, so we also need to keep the structure down to a minimum.

Doesn't work in Safari. Can't leave an annotation. QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota.

Overall, I'm pretty unimpressed with the quality of the crowdsourced comments -- which shouldn't come as any surprise to someone who's spent time on the internet.

I love the format of viewing with factcheck.org references off to the side, but I think it might be a better experience if you had a couple skilled people do and present the research -- or maybe moderate it? The crowd puts in a lot of dumb comments.

In projects like these, I wish more of the front end design put more attention on the generated content. I would like to see the latest (or latest and most upvoted) annotations so far and be able to click through to the relevant video part. I am not interested in scrolling through in hopes of finding content, especially as I watched the debate already.

bob writes (0:00) i farted

(in case it's not obvious, that's directly from the site)

seriously?

deleted. thanks

  Quip writes (26:45)
  Thanks for participating in this demo of Quip. Click the next video (part 2) to keep watching the debates. Sign up for the beta if you're interested in getting Quip on your site!

  Anonymous writes (26:54)
  Poop

Unfortunately, about as much as can be expected from anonymous comments.

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