If you want weather news and/or official updates, tweets might be better. If you want video from thousands of people sharing their experience, there is no comparison.
I'm 22 and also tech savvy, but I find it quite simple to use.
I think the target users are those that have pinch-to-zoom interfaces as kids (the today's teens), so the UX is meant to be "cool" instead of intuitive.
Another thing I've seen quite a lot is that you need to invest some time and have lots of friends already using the platform to know about the hidden gems, which I think the app itself promotes that behavior of friends sharing their knowledge instead of easy to use UI (not saying I think it's a good thing)
I read your comment, opened snapchat, pinch&zoomed in-an-out everywhere. I couldn't find the map. I'm more than 30. I'm putting down my phone and reading a book.
too bad I can't open Snapchat on my Nexus 5x without Android killing every other process to make room for your shoddy app's absurd memory requirements which still fail to provide enough performance to even allow swiping between activities smoothly
Snapchat has proven invaluable for me to keep tabs on what the situation is like around the area I live. CNN paints this deadly picture meanwhile my area in Miami is chillin.
I saw this live at the hackathon today! Very impressed that you got it all integrated and deployed and on the front page of hacker news before judging.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 99.2 ms ] threadGet some Bootstrap on there at least.
The media object in Bootstrap 4 Beta will probably be suitable for this:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/layout/media-object/
also submitted it a bit ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15213499
Best coverage is on Snap Map. Zoom to the Keys and the west coast of Florida and check out the first hand accounts.
https://www.reddit.com/live/zkadef2ttzql/
https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/ (Storm chaser of Blue Shed fame)
I tried to check it out myself but Snapchat was bugging out and getting a bit laggy so it was hard to really view.
Discover section? Nope. Somewhere at the top or bottom of my friends list? Nope. Somewhere in Ghost icon thing? Nope.
So I gave up and googled for help. Turns out you have to pinch-zoom-out anywhere.
Another thing I've seen quite a lot is that you need to invest some time and have lots of friends already using the platform to know about the hidden gems, which I think the app itself promotes that behavior of friends sharing their knowledge instead of easy to use UI (not saying I think it's a good thing)
Followed by cleavage shots and duck-facing.
I just wanted to say thanks for pointing this out. Really fascinating and unique way of following Irma's progress.
First time Snap Map user too fwiw.
This is a great idea. Love it!
One suggestion I’d have is to make photos more prominent. Events like this are mist interesting in the image and short video format.
As toomuchtodo posted below, https://www.reddit.com/live/zkadef2ttzql/ is also a really good source of live info.
It is refreshing to see that some of the world's priorities do not change even in spite of natural disasters.