Frinkiac

Search every Simpsons episode, make memes, be a badass

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Search every Simpsons episode, make memes, be a badass

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Wow, 3M+ screencaps? Curious how they did this. I just made this:

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

Hey @rrhoover! @reaperhulk, one of the makers, wrote a blog post that includes some of the technical details, but we're happy to answer any other questions you might have. :) https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/fri...

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11yr ago

The Simpsons is my favorite show so this is GOLD.

That said, the landing page is kind of intimidating in that I had no idea what to search first. Might be kind of cool to provide some common searches or popular images so people can get started without being faced with an empty search field.

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11yr ago

ntwrk

@p_ngu "I had no idea what to search first" <-- Agree.

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@p_ngu I totally agree. We put that on hold for launch, but it's in the hopper! Any suggestions for what the default search(es) should be?

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11yr ago

@seriousallie Good question, maybe fun things like beer, food, dancing, party, etc. or popular Simpsons scenes. Perhaps chat with the Giphy team about what categories/searches people do, they're probably pretty up to date on popular search terms!

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11yr ago

Fetcher

This one may need to get appended to our Slackbot bug reports.

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11yr ago

Nico

I love this idea, but this would be so much better with a browse functionality too. I'm willing to be there are a lot more users who would browse vs knowing an exact scene they want to look up..

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@super_haik Interesting... Tell me more! Are you thinking of something like a list of episodes by season that you can expand view all screencaps from that episode?

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11yr ago

Nico

@seriousallie my first impulse was to want to just scroll down and see some of the content...maybe it could even be a quick grid of the most searched for images of the last hour or something, and then from there maybe you can click in and see other related screenshots (not necessarily same episode) and just keep digging your way around. basically it just feels like there needs to be a second path for people who can't think of a search term right away but still wanna look at screenshots!

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@super_haik Ah, I see! Yeah @p_ngu and @joshuapinter were thinking something similar (see above comments ^^). What do you think of the idea of a default search or searches?

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11yr ago

Congratulations your product was mentioned by TNW on Twitter! https://twitter.com/TheNextWeb/s...

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@jay_bee12345 Wow, thanks! So exciting! Wired UK wrote something about it this morning, which was super rad - http://www.wired.co.uk/news/arch...

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11yr ago

First, thank you for this product, it is really cool. I have a small user story for you, hopefully you can include it on your next sprint :) "As a huge fan of The Simpsons, I want to have the ability to search by season and episode so that I do not need to remember the exact quote"

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@lordserch Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it. And thanks for the suggestion! That's a great idea, so it's no big surprise that you aren't the first person to suggest it. :) It's in the hopper, but probably won't make it into the next release. There's a few design challenges associated with working that into the existing UI that I still need to address. Thanks again!

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11yr ago

At first, I thought I coudn't actually get any search terms to work because it kept saying not found. Then I realized it's actually just slow -- might be helpful to put a loading message instead so that users aren't discouraged! I didn't notice until I returned to the page after giving up and found my last search query completed.

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11yr ago

Frinkiac

Maker

@liora_ Yeah, we started getting overloaded around 3,000 active users. :/ We're working on a fix right now. Sorry about that!

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11yr ago

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