[HN Gopher] Show HN: Rabbit Holes
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Show HN: Rabbit Holes
Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics! Enter a topic
of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from
Wikipedia--related topics are generated with GPT based on the
summary. Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move
around, and "J" to open journey view!
Author : amanmathur
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-08-27 06:58 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (rabbitholes.wiki)
(TXT) w3m dump (rabbitholes.wiki)
| thomascountz wrote:
| This is a cool idea and is fun to explore. It would be cool to be
| able to revisit a page/topic via the journey view. (Perhaps you
| can, but I'm unable to on Firefox iOS). I think it's interesting
| that each time I revisit a topic, I might be given a different
| set of choices; leading me down a different branch. Thanks for
| sharing!
| amanmathur wrote:
| thanks!
| robbles wrote:
| I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and
| bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning
| on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons.
| Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the
| overall idea!
| amanmathur wrote:
| yeah was originally a way to keep mobile more constrained and
| usable -- but definitely isn't as fun. Will add 4 directions
| back in on mobile :)
| g-adamante wrote:
| I like the concept! I don't like the wall of text. It's hard to
| concentrate / parse what's in the text box. Keep working on it,
| it has potential.
| amanmathur wrote:
| can present the text in a more readable way, thanks for the
| feedback!
| piyushtechsavy wrote:
| Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and
| may not be very related. It could be more like a map.
| cobertos wrote:
| So is down "deeper" into the rabbit hole? Or is down more
| specific and up is more general? Or is it just a related topic
| (meaning up and down aren't different in any way)?
| amanmathur wrote:
| right now they're all random topics, but thinking about adding
| meaning to the directions in next iteration
| dimal wrote:
| Cool idea. I'd suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting.
| Justified text generally doesn't read well on a device. Better to
| justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes
| it harder to read and scan.
| rickcarlino wrote:
| Would be fun if it had a language selector.
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