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by breck 2442 days ago
Very interesting. I signed up for the beta.

I really like your timeline concept. I'd almost maybe double down on that, and move away from the graph model (where the geometric layout is not really grounded to an easily accessible mental model). I'm not sure what the ideal looks like, but my hunch is the timeline view might be at the center of it.
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xwowsersx 2442 days ago
I really like the graph model. I don't necessarily prefer it over the timeline model, but in general people learn/grasp concepts and topics differently. For me personally, it helps to visualize in multiple ways and even just seeing the connection between nodes is incredibly helpful. I think more ways to visualize is better than just picking one. Not disagreeing though it may be best for the timeline to be the center of it.
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seltzered_ 2442 days ago
Similar opinion here. I had a lot of trouble grasping the idea until a minute into the video where you show the timeline aspect. I'd try to explore some other UI layouts. There's something a bit off in making a user click the graph, move eyes down to the timeline, then back up to the article.

(thinking aloud, Perhaps de-emphasize the graph (make it smaller?) and make the timeline vertical / leftish-center? then give the article more room for reading. Or possibly put graph&timeline at top then the article below so the article can be viewed in full & scrolled without any frame windowing.)

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bmusto19 2442 days ago
Thank you for the feedback! We're also really liking the timeline aspect of the stie, but we still think there's ways to incorporate at least some sort of graph model as well. This might be something we'd A/B test
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breck 2442 days ago
Perhaps more or a PCA graph would work, where there is a clear grounding of the math in how you are generating it. Or perhaps a tree structure. I think showing connections is good, just think the timeline at the moment seems very promising.
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