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RadioactiveMan
I salute your work. If I might make a suggestion: perhaps new users should be presented with the option to make filter choices, or at least pointed in the filter's direction? I felt like I was playing russian roulette with a gun loaded with penises.
marktolson
Haha cheers! Yep I'll probably end up putting the filter list on the opening screen as you're not the first person to liken it to a round of penis roulette.
marktolson
I'm not sure if anyone cares or you're just in it for the pics but I thought I'd describe how it works. The site doesn't just pull the top images from all subreddits. If that were the case you'd only see posts from the most popular subreddits. It creates random pools of subreddit groups based on the selected filter. It then cycles through those pools after exhausting the list of selected subreddits. This exposes the viewer to subreddits which may be less popular. There's a lot to discover. The average time on the site per visit is currently over 25 minutes.
johnmurch
Super interesting. I wonder what other content would work this well, various animated gifs? Great stuff!
ASquare
Exactly - that's precisely what I was thinking. Would this work for non-visual content as well?
andrewchambers
I'm annoyed the link itself is NSFW, I would have expected something technical or a writeup to be the link.
marktolson
Show HN links are supposed to link to the site, not to an article about the site.
andrewchambers
Ok, I was slightly put off when the first thing that appeared was a full screen nude person rather than an explanation of what the site actually is.
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