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Show HN: DIY animated ascii art (animasci.com)
2 points by ggeorgovassilis on Oct 17, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Not sure if it's because I'm on iOS chrome, but I don't see how or where to create these animations. I would think generating content is one of the primary actions you want users to be doing.

I also noticed that the page numbering is odd. The second page is numbered 7 in the URL, third page is 6, etc.

You may wan to consider a search feature and or categories rather than only reverse chronological order.

What's your long term vision/plan?


Thanks for the feedback. You probably are visiting the page on a mobile device - there the links for drawing animations are at the bottom of the page. Since it's (still) a hassle to draw animations with a touchscreens I figured it won't hurt to stow links down there.

The page numbering is indeed unconventional, but that has it's reason too: links should be immutable. If someone links to page 6 it should always display the same content. If smaller page numbers have always the newest content, then they would not be immutable any more. The page numbering scheme animasci uses is actually exactly like the one of a book: older content is on smaller page numbers.

Long term vision? Hopefully see some good text animations!


What do you folks think? I am grateful for your constructive feedback :)




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