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Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

by t3hprogrammer on 10/13/12, 1:13 AM with 20 comments

  • by nkoren on 10/13/12, 7:27 AM

    I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results.

    But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection.

    This raises a question for me: what is the best way to simulate/create a low-speed connection, for UI testing purposes?

  • by doesnt_know on 10/13/12, 6:06 AM

    Pretty cool. I think it could use some kind of feedback/indicator when I click on a photo and it's loading. I was clicking thumbnails and nothing was happening, wasn't sure what was suppose to happen. Turns out it was just loading, but there was no indication that was happening.

    This wouldn't be a big problem, but the entire thing seems to rely on you going very slowly and only click one at a time and wait for it to load.

    If I click another photo during that loading period, it mashes up the photos [1]. Scrolling down while a photo is in the center also doesn't appear to work well, if I click another photo it tries to bring it up and cuts them up [2]. Looks like it could do with some more testing my friend.

    [1] http://i.imgur.com/uzUl0.png

    [2] http://i.imgur.com/hqD9J.png

  • by chapel on 10/13/12, 2:51 AM

    I would love it if instead of having the image move to the center if it is on the outside, instead have the image appear around the thumbnail right where it is like the ones in the center. That would make it win completely. Otherwise it is very nice and simple in a good way.

  • by mistagrrr on 10/13/12, 5:00 AM

    Very creative, nice job! You might want to expire the Flickr API key used since it's part of github's history now.

  • by olympus on 10/13/12, 3:49 AM

    Very neat, I just had a few minor issues with needing to click some thumbnails twice to get the picture to display correctly. With that one issue aside, I think this is a pretty slick way to display photos and might use it myself to display vacation pics or something similar.

  • by kkwok on 10/13/12, 2:02 AM

    Like this a lot, awesome work with this.

    Some feedback: When you have a photo being viewed and you click a thumbnail from the bottom or top rows, the picture changes, but the thumbnail disappears.

    Also, when you do this the new picture renders not as smoothly.

  • by citricsquid on 10/13/12, 3:12 AM

    I can't find a link to the repository from the demo, so here for anyone else: https://github.com/t3hprogrammer/flipgrid.js

  • by Axsuul on 10/13/12, 3:31 AM

    Awesome, way to think outside of the "box"!

  • by Ian999 on 10/13/12, 2:56 AM

    Really awesome stuff!

  • by tylerlh on 10/13/12, 1:52 AM

    pretty cool! nice work on this.

  • by cool_guy on 10/13/12, 6:02 AM

    Awesome