Crap, I wasn't expecting to be HN'd. I'd been experimenting with a lower polling interval to make updates less jarring.. working on getting into my server.. :)
Agh, it's super scary to see this story stop getting votes the moment the server tanks. When I break the server I get fewer votes, my story falls off the frontpage faster, and fewer people find out about it. Get it fucking right, Kartik..
No it's just doing simple polling. There was a thread about this last time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302367. Since then I'm starting to see the use of a more efficient approach. If I poll more frequently there'll be fewer stories to update each time and people who're reading on the left column will be jarred less. So yes, I'm going to look into all the various polling approaches.
Very interesting... would be more useful if there were a way to filter it, however. And definitely lose the move-cursor if you can't actually drag the items to the watch list, I tried that a couple times before I saw the "click to add" text.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the right affordance is to suggest that. I tried just a pointer cursor, but that's too noisy, especially in the presence of links.
I thought it would be better to risk some confusion if there's learning at the end, than to just have people be blissfully oblivious.. Do you think that's a poor tradeoff?
I think I'd do a mouse-over effect on the container as a whole. Darken it, or something, and add a transparent right-pointing arrow on the right edge - tweak slightly on mouse-down, and remove it from the left column on mouse-up. There's no need to have duplicates. All of which will imply what it does without any text, leaving the columns and their titles to do the work, and the text to be explicit where needed.
I like this a lot, thanks for posting this. However, I can't seem to access the actual articles by clicking on a post - is this just my browser or does this not happen? How does one go to the actual articles?
And it would be helpful if each post had the title of each parent article associated with them.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 64.9 ms ] threadAgh, it's super scary to see this story stop getting votes the moment the server tanks. When I break the server I get fewer votes, my story falls off the frontpage faster, and fewer people find out about it. Get it fucking right, Kartik..
I thought it would be better to risk some confusion if there's learning at the end, than to just have people be blissfully oblivious.. Do you think that's a poor tradeoff?
..oh, it's not this part.
And it would be helpful if each post had the title of each parent article associated with them.