Developer here. Feedback would be much appreciated. I should also shout out to Firebase for the realtime backend, and Backbone.js, for making my javascript a little less of spaghetti code.
The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced?
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Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I keep trying to do it, and sometimes it works. Sometimes nothing happens, or I just highlight text; that target's pretty small. (It's particularly annoying when it cuts off a comment I'd like to read.)
Tried to leave a reply, and then it said "Enter a username". Changed my mind, couldn't get back to the commentary without reloading the page.
Thanks for the feedback! Scrolling works best by using a mousewheel or trackpad. I agree it's not ergonomic for the click and drag approach, and adding width would help that.
We ask for a username only to give a unique identifier for a comment, and so that you can see which comments are yours. We don't ask for an email or social network link because frankly, I dislike demos that do :-P
Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to.
I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the last half was pre-annotated, at least with the questions and factcheck.org references. It's a nice way to watch.
The scrolling works well. It's a little weird, though, that it takes the mousewheel scrolling when I'm mousing over the comments. It makes sense, now that I've used it, it was just unexpected enough that I didn't think to try it the first time -- I wanted to focus on the element first.
I see now that it's acknowledging the mouseover focus by making the scrollbar visible, but maybe that should be more visually obvious. I didn't see it at first.
The widget on the right side looks cool, but the UX overall doesn't make sense for me because I don't want to rewatch the debate or scroll through that tiny region. Is there another way you could structure the information that lets me quickly know the context of the fact-check was, then read the blurb? What you've collected is more interesting to me; I just need to be able to watch the debate clip that will give me context.
Thanks! I like your idea of summary/blurb. The point of the widget is to parse video, so clarity is key. However we're trying to make a general purpose tool with a crowd-sourcing element, so we also need to keep the structure down to a minimum.
Doesn't work in Safari. Can't leave an annotation.
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