It would be nice to attribute these photos to their photographers, or to at least provide a link back to the original Reddit post. If you only link to the JPEG files, there's no way to find any information about the photo.
Also, it may be a violation of Reddit's TOS or the photographers' copyrights to redisplay this content without attribution.
Thanks! One more suggestion: It would be easier to browse through a category of pictures if there was a way of advancing to the next picture without having to close the current one and go back to the thumbnails. For example, maybe clicking on the photo could display the next photo in the category.
I also agree with other commenters that using the term "porn" can have adverse side-effects in terms of getting the site banned in workplaces. It might also get your site misclassified by search engines. Not to mention that people who are not aware of this usage of the word could be confused about what the site is really about.
Finally, I also had problems with Firefox 67 (on Windows). The errors I'm getting in my console are:
1. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
In error #2, the content is blocked because Firefox thinks that www.reddit.com is a "tracker" site. If I disable content blocking for your site, it works OK in Firefox.
Related: One time I was showing an intern something on my screen, and when I went to type a URL into Chrome it auto-suggested reddit.com/r/justiceporn, which I must've visited recently. The intern became visibly uncomfortable until I explained what "porn" meant in that context, and even loaded the page for good measure.
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
looks like firefox' content blocking prevents some resources from loading, basically disabling your site.
apart from the obvious google tag blockage this one pops up in the console:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
Android Firefox 67 is non-funtional. Also noticed that on mobile Chrome, the list of *porn links covers the full screen; stopping you from seeing the images.
Excuse me, but some images are not fully shown for example vertical images on wide screens. Maybe add a button to change image fitting from cover to contain and viceversa?
I have one suggestion. I'd add the ability to click outside an image to close it, rather than having to click on the smallish X in the upper right corner of the image. Works mostly fine on desktop Firefox 67.0.1, except the "More" button doesn't work at all.
dictionary.com (I always thought they ran on M-W's wordlists?) is ahead of you:
PORN - Sometimes por·no [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/. pornography;
1 sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
2 television shows, articles, photographs, etc., thought to cater to an excessive, irresistible desire for or interest in something:
edit: This seems to be based on the Cambridge dictionary (which is generally more commonly used in the UK outside of higher-level academia and journalism than the OED)
You just took the worst source for an English definition, felt compelled to actually include the source as if to dispel unproductive skeptical responses, and then explained what the slang version was in response to a comment telling you both the actual and slang definitions, who had asked when the slang definition will be upgraded for inclusion in the best sources for English definitions
> You just took the worst source for an English definition
I'll agree to disagree with you on that one.
As for my point. My point is that the word porn/porno/pornography doesn't mean what you said it does for Wikipedia. Which suggests for a large population of the world (including myself). That it has that meaning on Reddit or amongst youth is just cargo culture.
It looks like Oxford and others already have included the expanded definition.
You would be in the minority by elevating Wikipedia over them, and I can just as easily modify Wikipedia and also give sources to their curators to gain consensus there. Will your opinion magically change because of that?
You don't have to use the word that way, you just have to know what people are referring to and viola language is achieved. Cargo culture is also part of the living dictionary, Oxford has accepted that before you.
> You would be in the minority by elevating Wikipedia over them, and I can just as easily modify Wikipedia and also give sources to their curators to gain consensus there. Will your opinion magically change because of that?
Go for it, and yeah it would (tho it isn't a binary yes/no). I would still know that, generally, the new definition is popularly used among the younger people of our society; not the adolescents and elder. The question with definitions like these is whether they're keepers ie. whether they remain in use on the longer term.
> Cargo culture is also part of the living dictionary
Cargo cult isn't a definition with such seemingly conflicting meanings.
> Oxford has accepted that before you.
Irrelevant, and you don't know that for sure either.
I'm not a fan of this use of the word porn, I think it is awkward and can make some benign interesting topics seem unsafe for work, which is the only reason I wrote my original comment.
But it is interesting how that revealed your antiquated thoughts on consensus and how that relates to the utility and cataloguing of language and how that relates that to mere communication itself. What we have is an easy to understand term, moving from slang to non-slang by various sources just from continual use. It doesn't make it difficult for you to understand, and you also don't have to use it and only understand. So it is interesting how you expand that to an inconsequential pedestal.
I would be curious if it remains in use on the longer term. I hope not. But the inclusion in these other dictionaries - whether someone modifies wikipedia or not - just makes it last longer.
Also, it may be a violation of Reddit's TOS or the photographers' copyrights to redisplay this content without attribution.