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Mayion t1_j7br5q3 wrote

Reply to comment by GorgeousVillian in A Visual Search Engine: Same Energy is a visual search engine. You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else. by GorgeousVillian

Yes but still changes the images I am looking at against my will. At least an overlay over the image that shows two buttons when I hover over, Expand or Search, would be better than deciding for the user that they must change their search results because they simply want to see a specific image.

If I search for Chickens, and click on an image I like, that means I want to view the image not change my query from Chickens to whatever the metadata of the image I opened is.

As in, if I see two images I like, I click on one and suddenly the rest of the images change, that annoys me as a user who still wanted to browse the rest of the gallery they first saw.

UX is based on either intuition, e.g. Click an image to expand

Or by placing buttons where the user can select the action they want.

Also, if I open a search link in a new tab, the search bar at the top does not show, I think this is unintended behavior. https://i.imgur.com/62BnH0e.jpeg

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Not trying to shit on you, the project is very nice and useful. Just that UX, I feel, needs some polishing to not be punishing to the user.

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Alexandrechief OP t1_j7bhsve wrote

Reply to comment by thingsinprogress in Write a letter for your future-self in five years by Alexandrechief

Hey thanks for asking ! Essentially, we rely on AWS to store the letters so deliverability pretty much depends on AWS not shutting down all of sudden in the next 10 years. We also have a daily database backup in place which I'm thinking of moving to some other service to mitigate risks. Ravilla also has a super good point, if we ever need to shutdown before that, I will make sure everyone receives their letter ahead of schedule !

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PM_ME_UR_FAVE_TUNE t1_j7bgg88 wrote

Reply to Write a letter for your future-self in five years by Alexandrechief

I write myself a birthday letter every year to my future self next year and another at 5 year intervals (so I receive a bunch of them when I turn 40, 45, etc)

It's really nice to get snapshots of my life every year. Been doing it for almost a decade now.

Used to use FutureMe, but now I just schedule the email to myself through Gmail.

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Mayion t1_j7ba8b6 wrote

Reply to A Visual Search Engine: Same Energy is a visual search engine. You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else. by GorgeousVillian

Ngl I am kind of annoyed that it keeps changing the images when I simply want to click on an image to open it, not to "search" for it.

An image search engine where I can't intuitively open up an image seems like a design flaw. Right clicking is not a suitable solution IMO either, because we all left click to open, not search.

Edit: I also suggest adding a label stating the dimensions of the image, as well as a filter for sizes.

Edit 2: Also adding a button to open the image in a new tab, or simply clicking a maximized image opens it in a new tab.

Cool concept though.

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