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thundara  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Connection Graph

Am I supposed to be seeing the single identity surrounded by the vast emptiness of space and taking home a nihilistic message from it?

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rob05c  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

flagamuffin Care to try it again? I think I fixed the https problems (by switching to a proxy with a valid cert).

user-inactivated  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah hang on -- got https everywhere on.

Switched to Chrome, it worked for me but very slowly and threatened to crash things so I closed it. I have a lot of tabs open for work and my computer sucks. From the glimpses I got, not sure what the connections are supposed to illustrate -- lot of usernames I didn't even recognize; certainly wasn't ranked by number if interactions or anything.

rob05c  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    not sure what the connections are supposed to illustrate

They're people that are following or followed by you. There's no ranking. Circles are the diameter of the username.

I could make it draw arrows, for following vs followed, as well as circle size based on number of followers. But this way, everyone is "equal," after a fashion.

I also considered only showing followers, or only showing followed. Or possibly coloring the lines differently.

    certainly wasn't ranked by number if interactions

That's a great idea; but I don't think hubski has a way to get that info easily.

    it worked for me but very slowly

You do have quite a few followers. Smaller people are faster to load. If your name is slow, definitely don't click mk's circle.…

user-inactivated  ·  3640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That's a great idea; but I don't think hubski has a way to get that info easily.

How now? The info is tracked in everyone's profile. It's individual, and I don't know what I'm talking about, but hey.

rob05c  ·  3640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, you can see shares by mousing over users in the 'following' pane. Yeah, that shouldn't be too hard to add.

It looks like the graph library can't easily set circle size. But we could make the color of the circle darker with more shares. So people you don't interact with are faded out.

rob05c  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, that's what happens when the hubski request breaks. Did you get redirected to https?

Just to verify, you did click on the circle, right?

thundara  ·  3640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HTTPEverywhere was enabled, but I also didn't realized that I needed to click the circle. Working now, even with https! Holy fuck am I not alone, there are so many people on here who I have no recollection of interacting with.

rob05c  ·  3640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can also click other circles to expand their connections, too. I should find a way to make that more obvious.

    there are so many people on here who I have no recollection of interacting with.

Presumably people who are following you. Flagamuffin made a similar comment. I wonder if there's a good way to emphasise following over followers.

user-inactivated  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I got all the same problems. It's https, wasn't sure what you meant by redirected etc.

rob05c  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it has to be http://rob05c.github.io/hubgraph/ not https://rob05c.github.io/hubgraph/.

Https works on some browser/OS's, but not others. It's because I'm doing shifty things to avoid a server.

If you put in http and it turns into https (probably due to a browser extension like HTTPEverywhere), you'll have to use a different browser, or figure out why your browser turns http into https and stop it.

Sorry, there's not much I can do, unless I write a server and self-host it.