[HN Gopher] Chronophoto
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       Chronophoto
        
       Author : jmduke
       Score  : 1009 points
       Date   : 2023-01-28 18:05 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.chronophoto.app)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.chronophoto.app)
        
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       | tobr wrote:
       | Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the
       | older the photo was. It's a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910
       | apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | I was finding that I had a harder time with very recent photos.
         | Fashion has become a bit static perhaps.
        
         | pavon wrote:
         | Actually I've been doing consistently worse in the years I
         | lived through than the rest of the timeline. Apparently the
         | older I get the more styles blur together. I tend to estimate
         | ~5 years too early for the 1980-2000, and ~10 years too early
         | for 2010 to present.
        
         | thinking4real wrote:
         | Disagree, it's just a matter of analyzing each decade precisely
         | 
         | Thought often the pictures are not a great representation of
         | the time they convey :/
        
         | charles_f wrote:
         | Interesting, unless there was a major clue, I've had as much
         | pain in both cases.
        
           | moffkalast wrote:
           | I always got the most points when I just did a completely
           | random guess haha. Taking the actively misleading part out of
           | the equation.
        
         | yieldcrv wrote:
         | I found 1973-1997 looking very similar in color film quality,
         | and cars on the street. maybe if I was more familiar with
         | models, maybe.
         | 
         | it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was
         | going on.
         | 
         | my top score is 2900 right now
        
           | ipaddr wrote:
           | First time 2200.. what a fun game. I'll use your 2900 as a
           | goal
        
           | thechao wrote:
           | I got a bunch of Edwardian--WW2 photos in one go, and netted
           | 3190. I might be able to get higher than that, but only if
           | the photos predate 2000.
           | 
           | I think styles changed a lot from 1900--1970. After that,
           | things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing
           | styles muddyvthe waters.
        
             | yieldcrv wrote:
             | got 3632! and now my watch has ended
        
           | blauditore wrote:
           | Changes in consumer-grade photo quality between 70s/80s/90s
           | are actually quite visible if you've looked at many of them.
           | It's subtle, but e.g. newer ones have better range in
           | brightness, i.e. less overly bright or dark areas in high-
           | contrast images.
        
         | washadjeffmad wrote:
         | One of the photos was labeled with the year, and the game
         | identified it differently. It's all in fun.
        
       | klabb3 wrote:
       | It's incredible to see how quickly things changed ~1910-1930 in
       | terms of infrastructure and technology. You're going from horses
       | and cobblestone to almost modern cars and pavement, within just
       | 20 years or so.
        
         | stjo wrote:
         | Same thing with smartphones. If the photos is of a crowd, it is
         | immediately obvious if it is after 2012 by the fact that
         | everybody is watching their hands.
        
       | hammock wrote:
       | Awesome.
       | 
       | The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit
       | talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on
       | the nose. That heartened me.
       | 
       | After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
        
       | PerryCox wrote:
       | As my last image in round 5 I got a photo of WWF where Mankind
       | was on top of the hell in a cell. I guessed 1998 because of the
       | meme and got it correct! It was the only image I hit dead on.
        
         | imiric wrote:
         | Same for me with Musk on stage with the Cybertruck (2019).
         | 
         | It would be more interesting if these popular photos were
         | removed, and guessing would be based only on knowledge about
         | clothing and hair styles, film type, car design, etc.
         | 
         | Great game!
        
       | valdect wrote:
       | Nice to see an unique game!
        
       | fideli0 wrote:
       | That's fun :-) What's the source of the photos?
        
       | dbosch wrote:
       | Great game ! Thanks for sharing.
       | 
       | Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about
       | the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year,
       | after we tried to guess the date.
        
       | airstrike wrote:
       | I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like
       | Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can
       | (lightly) compete with friends.
       | 
       | And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
        
         | IndySun wrote:
         | Why would this work better as a daily game like wordle?
         | 
         | I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than
         | guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and
         | Wordle are not comparable.
        
           | gojomo wrote:
           | People like to compete: seeing the same questions makes the
           | scores comparable. Having common context of the same "daily
           | pics" also creates opportunities for discussion & debate
           | which don't exist otherwise.
           | 
           | Trickling out synchronized games may create more durable
           | entertainment, because otherwise many tend to play intensely
           | until they bore of it, considering it "done" - never checking
           | back.
           | 
           | Returning back each day may generate more 'fun' per game, as
           | the satiation of repeated play is minimized. It also
           | cultivates a reliable audience for incremental
           | changes/experiments that take time to implement & evaluate -
           | assiting iterative improvement.
        
           | jayknight wrote:
           | Framed is pretty popular with some of my daily game friends,
           | and it's visual.
           | 
           | https://framed.wtf/
        
             | dirtyid wrote:
             | This is great
        
           | cush wrote:
           | Well I want to play it again
        
           | satvikpendem wrote:
           | If it gets popular by going viral, the creator could sell it
           | for 7 figures to the New York Times too.
        
         | candlemas wrote:
         | I wish it had a seed that you could specify.
        
         | 3dfx wrote:
         | The trivia thing was asked for at reddit too, but i looked into
         | the file storage of the server and it seems that the photos are
         | just plainly stolen from all over the internet with file names
         | like chronophoto.app/years/1963/ap630629032-02fcaf4ca7736109b99
         | 8d760283a3a9ba7bceda7-s900-c85.webp or
         | chronophoto.app/years/2017/ed-jones-north-korea-
         | top-100-photos-2017.jpg No credit is given anywhere too. This
         | is probably illegal and the author will get in a lot of trouble
         | if he does not do something about that soon.
        
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       | softfalcon wrote:
       | Wow... for the first time in my life, knowing intricate
       | information about film development colouring paid off
        
         | swyx wrote:
         | do geoguessr style livestreaming but for old photos and talk
         | thru your process, people will love it
        
           | whoibrar wrote:
           | yes, I would 100 percentage watch it
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | People still use old film sometimes ...
        
         | NikolaNovak wrote:
         | It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour...
         | from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I
         | assume recoloured later?
         | 
         | There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s.
         | Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a
         | photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going
         | for cars and styles more when possible.
        
           | kxrm wrote:
           | > I assume recoloured later?
           | 
           | Color capable film has been around since the late 19th
           | century.
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems
        
             | function_seven wrote:
             | Sure, but the character of the saturations and hues is
             | different. I think that's what parent is talking about.
        
           | softfalcon wrote:
           | Fair point! Maybe I just got lucky and my 5 or so photos were
           | all time accurate to their development methods!
        
         | OtherwiseBenign wrote:
         | A bit like the car meta in Geoguessr
        
       | vander_elst wrote:
       | Love it! Nice job.
       | 
       | It would be nice to have a link with more information about the
       | single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was
       | shot, i can then look for the related events myself.
        
       | _HMCB_ wrote:
       | Is Top Score highest everyone has gotten because I just got 3063
       | which shows top.
        
         | system2 wrote:
         | That's yours. I got 4500~. If you score 800ish every round you
         | get around 4000 already.
        
       | earthbee wrote:
       | I feel I'd be doing better at this game if I was a car person.
       | The only time I've got the year spot on was with a photo of the
       | toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein. The worst I did was guess
       | 1960 on a black and white photo taken almost directly above of
       | some cars on a road, it was actually 1980.
       | 
       | Fun but tricky
        
         | anthomtb wrote:
         | I was a cat nut in middle school. The four photos with cars?
         | All guessed within 5 years. The one without a car? Off by 30
         | years.
        
       | wizofaus wrote:
       | First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then
       | had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on,
       | photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution
       | colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early
       | 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year
       | for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I
       | managed to pick the exact year for, scored just over 4400 (I
       | guess 5k's the max?). Willing to bet a suitably trained AI would
       | whoop any human's ass though, even ensuring none of the photos
       | were explicitly part of the training data.
        
         | PeterisP wrote:
         | Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high
         | resolution colour be surprising?
         | 
         | Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the
         | actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process.
         | 
         | This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-
         | Gorsky#/media/... and this
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/...
         | - come from 1910s.
         | 
         | And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-
         | released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be
         | surprising.
        
           | wizofaus wrote:
           | Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary
           | inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't
           | say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation
           | that didn't match that of other photos from that period,
           | indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
        
       | cinntaile wrote:
       | The slider was incredibly frustrating to use on (Android) mobile.
       | The game itself was fun though.
        
         | blinding-streak wrote:
         | Works fine for me on Android. Perhaps a fix was made in the 4
         | hours since you posted your comment and me trying it.
        
           | cinntaile wrote:
           | It's fixed now. It wasnt't finely grained enough before, so
           | you'd try to select 1978 and end up with e.g. 1979 or 1980.
        
       | basseed wrote:
       | it's fun! Would be good if each set had a unique id so that you
       | coul send the same set to a friend and compare scores
        
       | graypegg wrote:
       | This is really fun! Never really thought about how nice some very
       | old film photos can look, took me by surprise on a few ones!
        
       | swalling wrote:
       | Addictively fun. I'd love to see a leaderboard for this or at
       | least what the score distribution is.
        
       | jeremyis wrote:
       | 3244! The first photo was hard because it was recent but had an
       | old car in it.
        
       | fceruti wrote:
       | I feel proud and eager to share my 3150 score point.
       | 
       | PS: No such sharable gold nugget was presented.
        
         | rukuu001 wrote:
         | Lol I took a screenshot. Endorphin hit from getting 2 in a row
         | exactly right was ridiculous
        
           | fceruti wrote:
           | that's the good stuff
        
       | msurekci wrote:
       | Fun game, thanks!
        
       | Matheus28 wrote:
       | I love this. The summary at the end could be a bit more compact.
       | Scrolling all the way to the bottom to start a new page is a bit
       | inconvenient.
       | 
       | Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are
       | very hard to place in an exact year.
        
         | system2 wrote:
         | Use stylebot (chrome) for these type of sites. 1 min or so the
         | site would to your taste.
        
       | jb1991 wrote:
       | Trying to use this on mobile sure is frustrating. I pinch zoom to
       | look at the photo and somehow I end up changing photos when I
       | zoom back out to click the buttons.
        
       | vagabund wrote:
       | Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues
       | though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I
       | recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with
       | Happy Gilmore playing.
       | 
       | I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing
       | styles and car models more.
        
         | 13of40 wrote:
         | One of mine had a picture of JFK giving a speech.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Love it! I got some terrible scores but then realized a good
       | strategy is to judge a photo by its quality and aesthetics rather
       | than the content.
        
         | atoav wrote:
         | Except when you don't do it. My first (and best) guess was one
         | year off, because I guessed based on a specific war with a
         | specific way of building trenches.
        
           | tasuki wrote:
           | Yes, the war photos are way easier to place than like the
           | lady looking at the jewelry.
        
       | cpp_frog wrote:
       | 4409. Amazing how can you tell the approximate year by how the
       | women are dressed, an exercise I hadn't done conscientiously
       | before. Thanks!
        
       | tcmb wrote:
       | Would be interesting if all pictures were black and white,
       | irrespective of when they were taken.
       | 
       | Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.
        
       | kowlo wrote:
       | It said Clinton Shaking Kennedy's hand was 1962... thought it was
       | 63
        
         | kristopolous wrote:
         | Well it certainly wasn't 1964
        
           | kortilla wrote:
           | Definitely no later than 65
        
       | sammalloy wrote:
       | Finally! A game I enjoy and am somewhat good at.
        
       | WatchDog wrote:
       | At least one of the photos is mislabeled.
       | 
       | This one[0] shows time square with an ad for a UFC fight that
       | happens in 2009, but it's labelled as 2007.
       | 
       | [0]:https://i.imgur.com/9wJZhI0.png
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | The "About" page includes a request to send an email if you
         | find an inaccuracy.
         | 
         | support@chronophoto.app
        
         | googlryas wrote:
         | Wow, that's quite the lead up.
        
       | Quarrelsome wrote:
       | Extremely enjoyable, thank you!
        
       | ddejohn wrote:
       | Absolutely love these types of games. Geoguessr is another
       | classic.
       | 
       | EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
        
         | pcthrowaway wrote:
         | I prefer Explordle to Geoguessr
        
       | maximumcomfy wrote:
       | 3820 so far I like this
        
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       | sheepscreek wrote:
       | My scores are getting progressively better and I've reached 4481
       | by the 5th game!
       | 
       | I guessed better with photos that had telling elements such as
       | hair styles, clothing, cars, beards - and preferably more than
       | one instance of them. Bigger samples got to better results.
       | 
       | Fun game overall. OP, thanks for sharing the link.
        
       | Matheus28 wrote:
       | My best over probably 50 games was 4261. It's really fun to play
       | with other people too and make guesses together.
        
       | snozolli wrote:
       | So simple, yet a lot of fun!
       | 
       | 2,889 on my first round, 4,4xx on my second. It's fun zooming in
       | and looking for cars, logos, and clothing style for hints. It's
       | also neat to see, say, a road with cars from Model T style
       | through to swoopy 1930s sedans. Contrast that with most
       | historical movies where, if it's set in 1955, every car is from
       | 1950 - 1957.
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | I improved with each round, so is clearly educational.
        
       | fsargent wrote:
       | I recently been going through all of my family photos. A lot of
       | them are scanned and undated. I've been looking for some kind of
       | machine learning library that will allow me to automatically date
       | them. Approximates are fine, but an algorithm would do better
       | than I would. Even just grouping photos of similar film stock and
       | scene would be useful as they're all completely jumbled. Does
       | anyone know if there's anything like that?
        
       | graderjs wrote:
       | That's an awesome app, I love that!
        
       | srcnkcl wrote:
       | This is a AI training job gamified isnt it?
        
         | system2 wrote:
         | What would be the help of this game to ai?
        
           | gojomo wrote:
           | Potentially, it might help find errors in the existing year-
           | labeling - either via recognizing cases where guessers have
           | wide divergences with a certain bias, or the explicit avenue
           | via the about (email with errors).
           | 
           | Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place
           | it at certain times, by human perception. That might help
           | tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras
           | to avoid anachronisms, or more strongly hint specific years
           | or vague ranges.
           | 
           | Now, I don't think these are likely motivations for the game
           | - the mere fun of playing seems enough to me. But it seems
           | they _could_ be.
        
             | system2 wrote:
             | Pretty far fetched. The date of the photos are known so
             | ai's only intention would be to find out if humans suck at
             | guessing or not. Which would be a useless data to improve
             | the systems.
        
       | xoa wrote:
       | Neat simple little trivia thing, but fun to think about each one
       | and any clues. I got 1969, 1968, 1971, 1906 and 1904, score of
       | 3435. First two were war related, for 1000 and 777. First was b&w
       | but obvious forest clearing mid Vietnam war, so bit of a guess
       | but on the dot, then the second was a color picture of a bus with
       | "Saigon" on it that I underestimated but again, era was clearly
       | Vietnam. Second one showed people in front of cricket scoreboard
       | and with all the batters names and that was pure luck for me
       | because only one possible famous match featured those players!
       | (test #679, Australia v Sydney 1971). Utterly bombed the next, 83
       | points, I agree with others that I found older photos tougher.
       | Guess 1923, way off. Then I could guess at the final based on the
       | period late 1800s/early 1900s dress at 1910 which was good for
       | 575.
       | 
       | Anyway, fun in terms of trying different strategies and it making
       | one focus on the details whereas normally with photographs it's
       | easy to just sort of look at it more abstractly without really
       | _thinking_ about it. Could be a neat party game even as-is, but I
       | also agree with a sibling poster that it 'd be easy to expand a
       | touch to favor that (allow having n different guesses each with
       | different colors, so everyone can take a shot for each image for
       | some light competition maybe?).
        
       | NKosmatos wrote:
       | Very nice game, fast site, nice photos and likes the overall feel
       | of it, well done!
        
       | zxexz wrote:
       | This is very fun, but I'm wondering why you haven't included
       | source or some context for the photos? Also, you've disabled
       | right click so reverse image searching them is painful.
        
         | atahanacar wrote:
         | >disabled right click
         | 
         | Try Shift + Right click to bypass this.
        
           | zxexz wrote:
           | Unfortunately, that's not working for me on mac or linux :(
        
             | atahanacar wrote:
             | Maybe it is a Firefox only feature? Works fine for me on
             | Linux.
        
         | pricci wrote:
         | Screenshot
        
           | zxexz wrote:
           | My issue is there being no credits or sources for the image.
           | Screenshot and reverse image search is certainly a solution
           | on my end to get to that info, but it should be present on
           | the website, probably at the round summary.
        
       | dinkleberg wrote:
       | This is a fun little game. It is interesting to see what the
       | tells are for the time periods. The reliable ones for me so far
       | are military uniforms, cars, and computers. Hairstyles and
       | clothes for some time periods are a give away, but some of those
       | have thrown me off too.
        
         | ghayes wrote:
         | Helped for me that I am in one of the photos (NHL game played
         | at Lake Tahoe during the pandemic).
        
           | dinkleberg wrote:
           | That is fantastic. Gotta wonder what the chance of that is.
        
       | darkerside wrote:
       | 4625! One was obvious (Biden inauguration), and another I got
       | lucky with a dead on guess.
        
       | Diapason wrote:
       | Was fun. Got 2 perfect out of the 5 on my first try :) Score 3098
       | total
        
       | uptownfunk wrote:
       | Wow cool idea, fun.
        
       | nickdothutton wrote:
       | 3 rounds and 3502. Well done to the creator!
        
       | photoGrant wrote:
       | This was ridiculously fun for me!
       | 
       | I got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the
       | year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
        
         | BHSPitMonkey wrote:
         | Also nailed 2 out of 5, but managed a 4154 on my first go :D
         | 
         | It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds
         | use to produce these guesses. Technology like the
         | cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on
         | the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face
         | masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
        
           | interestica wrote:
           | This would be fun as a team or on a stream. Theres a lot to
           | learn from the "speak aloud" aspect of the reasoning here.
           | Film grain. Colour. Hair. Clothes. Cultural clues. Etcetc
        
       | wazzer wrote:
       | Nice, I always thought I'm pretty good in guessing the production
       | years of movies, photos, and music, so this game is a lot of fun
       | for me.
       | 
       | My first try gave me a score of 4125. I'm curious if I can
       | replicate that result or if I just got lucky!
       | 
       | Edit: Nope... second try: 2728
       | 
       | Edit: 3rd round: 3823
        
       | robertpohl wrote:
       | score 3203!
        
       | XCSme wrote:
       | I love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious
       | what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | Yes. Is a great example of "less is more"
        
         | bongoman37 wrote:
         | [dead]
        
       | chairmanwow1 wrote:
       | Fun game! Wish the UI would stay static when going between
       | rounds. The scroll down was jarring.
        
       | orlp wrote:
       | This is very similar to Wikitrivia:
       | https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , which asks you to place
       | general historical concepts/events on a timeline.
        
         | tasuki wrote:
         | Not sure how similar it is, but hey Wikitrivia is great!
        
       | williamDafoe wrote:
       | Score: 2358. In general I was within 5 years except for the first
       | one where I was off by 12.
        
       | acyou wrote:
       | These photos are gorgeous. Love the photos that were selected.
       | Are you willing to share the source for the photos?
        
       | dougdonohoe wrote:
       | Reminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game
       | where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents
       | a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic,
       | discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in
       | the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets
       | harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | In the U.S. we have Chronology, sounds like the same game.
         | 
         | This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar.
         | 
         | https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
        
           | Daegalus wrote:
           | Timeline is easily found in the US. I bought a copy a couple
           | months ago.
        
         | RicoElectrico wrote:
         | Yeah, it's called Timeline. At work we took Armenian colleagues
         | to a pub which had it available. It was funny to play with the
         | Polish localization, they understood more than we assumed
         | (Armenians know Russian). But the replay value is dubious. The
         | guy who won turned out to have this game at home. Kinda
         | cheating ;)
        
       | achairapart wrote:
       | Like others, I wish there was some info about the photos like
       | context, location or source (Wikipedia?).
       | 
       | Anyway, here's the complete dataset (funny way to store it):
       | 
       | https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt
       | 
       | Also, I couldn't resist and cheated a bit to see if you'ld get
       | something special for 5000, but nothing :(
       | 
       | https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ
        
       | antihipocrat wrote:
       | This is great! I'd love to see some stats on the distribution of
       | all guesses for each photo
        
       | grodin wrote:
       | It's a shame, but its privacy policy[1] is pretty clearly
       | contravening the GDPR. There's a link on the top of the privacy
       | page which seems to be supposed to show you a consent modal, but
       | it doesn't work on my Chromebook, and their claimed
       | justifications for using the user's data are clearly not actually
       | justified.
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.chronophoto.app/privacy.html
        
       | muglug wrote:
       | Love it!
       | 
       | You can tell a crowd photo wasn't taken in the last 10 years
       | because nobody's looking at their phones.
        
         | tazjin wrote:
         | * 15 years. 10 years ago is already 5 years after the iPhone.
        
           | muglug wrote:
           | Yeah, but it took a while for looking at your phone while
           | walking to become normalised.
        
       | pwenzel wrote:
       | This is really fun. My only wish is that I could see some
       | information about the photos in the summary screen. Maybe a
       | photographer credit or link to a Wikipedia?
        
       | system2 wrote:
       | I came back to play again after 10 hours and noticed some of the
       | 1950's photos are fake colored and fooled me. I think those
       | photos make this game less authentic.
        
       | EGreg wrote:
       | Ooh I got the high score it seems! On the first try! First three
       | I did exceptionally well:
       | 
       | I said 1942 Photo was taken in 1943 924 points
       | 
       | I said 1925 Photo was taken in 1927 849 points
       | 
       | I said 1985 Photo was taken in 1986 924 points
       | 
       | I said 1957 Photo was taken in 1942 117 points
       | 
       | I said 1931 Photo was taken in 1923 453 points
       | 
       | NYEH NYEH!
       | 
       | Final Total: 3267 High Score: 3267
        
       | darreninthenet wrote:
       | Would be interesting to train an AI on another dataset and then
       | see how it does on this
        
       | tomcam wrote:
       | I fancy myself to be much more historically than most people and
       | yeah... no. Consistently off by 5 years or so.
        
         | Aeolun wrote:
         | In a range of 120 years that's pretty good I'd say. At least, I
         | was pretty proud of myself for doing the same.
        
       | anigbrowl wrote:
       | Amusing. Summary screen is hard to read and kinda redundant,
       | needs a leaderboard.
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | Don't these always end up getting spammed by script kiddies
         | submitting the best scores?
        
       | chaboud wrote:
       | I'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and
       | collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts
       | photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY).
       | 
       | Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
        
       | ekianjo wrote:
       | A good game for kids to show them how to recognize different
       | eras. Many clues in each pic, including the colors that are
       | representative of the film/tech used.
        
       | pentagrama wrote:
       | So fun! Have some friends courious about culture and history that
       | will love this.
       | 
       | I think the UX can improve a bit:
       | 
       | - Would like that after a submit show both the correct date and
       | the player guess, now only shows the correct date on screen (and
       | the guess in the slider but not with numbers, just a visual gap)
       | 
       | - The slider is a bit hard to interact on phones.
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | Also, it should show public info about public photos. If you
         | photo search, you can easily find - and see some interesting
         | information that the app could include. Example:
         | https://www.prints-online.com/cub-scouts-taking-operation-sh...
        
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       | bluSCALE4 wrote:
       | I played this with my 8 y.o. son. I called it a social studies
       | activity, was that accurate?
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | Absolutely. It would help if the results included some context
         | for the photo, but that seems like a great way to spend
         | educational & fun time with your son.
        
         | peeters wrote:
         | Just beware there seems to be little content filtering, one of
         | the images I got was pictures of war casualties tossed on the
         | side of the road from 2015.
        
       | jug wrote:
       | This reminds me of some TV show games here in Sweden. :)
       | 
       | Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with
       | jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :|
       | 
       | ~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
        
         | klabb3 wrote:
         | Pa sparet :)
        
       | sdflhasjd wrote:
       | Fun game. Does stutter a lot in Firefox on my phone for some
       | reason.
        
         | guilamu wrote:
         | No problem here, latest ff, s10e.
        
       | crossingTime wrote:
       | I got a 1976 and a 1992 correct on my only attempt. What are the
       | odds of that? You can narrow a picture down to roughly a 20 yr
       | span. Is that 1 in 400 for just those two? Worst case would be
       | 100 x 100?
        
       | ztratar wrote:
       | This was a lot of fun. Very unique game. Congratulations on
       | making it! :)
        
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