The Unim.press

Read Reddit like a print newspaper

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Read Reddit like a print newspaper

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We call Reddit.com the "front page of the Internet," but it occurred to me that that's only true in a very abstract sense. So I thought I'd extend that metaphor to something concrete! Unim.press is a Reddit reader/browser that looks like the NYT front page.

Launch tags:News•Social Network•Side Project

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@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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I made Unim.press this past Friday afternoon after thinking it would be cool to read Hacker News on a print newspaper. Hacker News turned out to be a bad choice for a feed, because HN posts don't have any images and so the resulting paper isn't very interesting. Luckily, Reddit has a great public API so I pivoted to make a Reddit browser. Extra appropriate, given the site's nickname. If you're on Firefox with Advanced Tracking Protection enabled, you might need to turn it off for this site -- apparently ATP blocks Reddit's official public API, too. Be sure to check out other subreddits and /top posts of subs with the controls on the right of the header bar!

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6yr ago

Glide CV

@thesephist cool ship! what's the story behind the name?

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6yr ago

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@thesameerk The name's supposed to be "unimpress" as in "I'm un-impressed with today's news" but I think in hindsight I could have picked a more intuitive / pronounceable name, haha.

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6yr ago

@thesameerk @thesephist I love the name

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6yr ago

This is super cool! Is there a way to have all of it in color instead of coloring it when hovering on it?

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6yr ago

@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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@siddhartha_90 That was sort of a stylistic choice by me. I suppose you can go into the CSS and remove the `filter: greyscale(100)` line, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the "newspaper" look in my opnion, haha. If you want full color images you can just.... use Reddit too 🤷‍♂️

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6yr ago

Useful. Would be good to have a search, to search for any community. I see a lot of "lorem ipsum" instead of words. Waiting for v2.

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6yr ago

@allisonwalker4 You can do this actually! Just change the URL to whichever subreddit you want to see

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6yr ago

@siddhartha_90 Sorry, I don't see a search bar.... I like the concept, anyway.

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6yr ago

Glide CV

love the fonts & styling on this!! fun lil reader to use

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6yr ago

@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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@thesameerk Thanks! Definitely tried to put some effort into making the design match the real newspaper. You can see some comparisons with my reference design on a blog I wrote about this project at https://thesephist.com/posts/uni... :D

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6yr ago