If you’ve ever browsed your social media feeds and suddenly stumbled upon videos of physical objects being manipulated in highly specific ways - melted, smoothed, poured, carved, sliced, mixed, dissolved - you know the feeling. The group was created back in 2013 and has now become one of Reddit’s largest communities, ranking 29th on the list. The concept itself gained quite a cult following online mainly due to the subreddit in question. The term refers to images of videos encompassing everything from dominoes falling in perfect lines to smooth cake icing to the wonderful symmetry in nature. Things I still intend to iron out are the ability to mix and match arbitrary subreddits and non-reddit sources, and an integration with facebook accounts.Oddly satisfying is an attempt to describe an inexplicably pleasing quality that watching an otherwise mundane object triggers in its viewer.
I think mongout's way of doing it is pretty elegant though, with the picture of the arrow keys. Left/right keys are obviously the best way to do things, but we also wanted "point and click" users to get it right away as well, so we allowed for that in the UI. Some of the challenges I ran into, and surmounted, include preloaded images, URLs that allow you to link directly to the image, getting facebook sharing to register the image you are currently viewing when you want to share the image, zooming and unzooming large images, and saving favorites in user accounts.Īnother challenge was elegantly showing the UI elements without in any way distracting from the image - I think by fading them out after a couple seconds of mouse inactivty, we accomplished that pretty well. I just found an image I'd like to share with a friend and I noticed mongout wasn't gonna be a part of that process. A would be a nice step in that direction. You could add some sort of sharing feature. I think you can scratch those from showing up entirely.
I just got a imgur "this image is no longer available" thingy. You should do some preloading up to a max of USER_CONFIGURABLE_NUMBER images, have a sane default like 1 or 2. First step: you have that bar filling up, what about having a counter nearby, which increments everytime the bar fills? Think up some sort of achievements (opting out has to be an option, of course). You should allow an user to add/remove subreddits to get pics from, independently from the user's default subreddits. Also, then you could, by default, show pics from the user's default subreddits. Have this linked with your reddit account so you can up/down vote. In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Right, I'll just round up my suggestions and those I agreed with from other comments:
Subreddit image viewer how to#
My only problem with the site is that there's no clear indication anywhere that reddit is where the content is being pulled from, and it took me a bit to figure out how to get to the original page - maybe clicking the image could bring up the reddit panel from the bottom as well, but with some content-swapping to insert the full-size image into the reddit page above the comments? I'm one of those that thinks 'gamification' is generally a bad philosophy, but to the extent that this partitioning into discrete consumption units could be called that I think it really works and adds a lot of value to the experience. I did the same as the above poster and found the progress bar a really great and satisfying way to limit my time on the site (interesting that most sites have been pursuing the opposite goal in recent years). I don't read reddit, not because I don't think I would find it interesting but simply because I know it would suck so much time that I stay away. I think the progress bar is the most brilliant part of this whole thing.
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