Show HN: my weekend project, better way to browse reddit
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With this, how can I tell if a submission is just a picture or an article with a picture as a representation. For example, I see a submission with a title and the pic is an awkward penguin. I can read the text so I don't have to click through to see it bigger. That's good. I see another submission: "Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison" and the pic (same size as the awkward penguin) is a sad looking man looking out a window with raindrops on it. How do I know I should click through to get to an article?
I'd love something like /r/tldr but in semi-magazine form like this.
Post on reddit, you should get a lot of views from there.
It probably feels a bit slow at some points because it's actually checking each link and trying to pull out a thumbnail via the site's API like imgur, youtube, wikipedia, etc and at other times when there is no API, it's scraping HTML for a suitable thumbnail (which is the most time consuming). But this only happens once and then cached by redis. Also I'm making use of websockets so as soon as one item is parsed its pushed out to the client.
Having said that, there is plenty of room for improvement. I still plan to add some more features when I get more time such as loggin in, up/down voting, and the ability to browse other subreddits as you mentioned.