Ask HN: Initial feedback - imageoverflow.com

[mrose]

I've been working on a recent image discovery application, with a focus on keeping the interface clean and unobtrusive. I welcome any feedback or comments on the site's design.

[dclaysmith]

Clickable:

http://imageoverflow.com

Looks cool.

[SafeSituation]

After I came to your site, the very second link that I tried to click was broken, and this seems to be why:

http://http//instagr.am/p/MHDHSsGAC7/

All the links on the page seem similarly unusable.

[mrose]

Refesh and try again... it should work now.

[SafeSituation]

Fixed! Excellent

[Ralith]

Why are you URL-shortening all the links? This just introduces an unnecessary point of failure and bitrot into your results. It's especially silly when you have the full-length link in the display text, too...

[mrose]

That was a good question... Should be using the real links now.

[Ralith]

Doesn't seem to be. I'm referring to the links to the original image at the bottom of each picture.

[mrose]

Try refreshing the page... It should be working

[Ralith]

Wups, force refresh did it; must've been some weird browser caching.

[hacker91]

Very nice design, I like particularly self-changing background. Maybe the search bar could be refined a little bit more

[mrose]

Glad you noticed the changing bg! I have a few changes "in the works" which directly affect the search bar area ;)

[jfaucett]

cool app! My only suggestions would be to make the layout adaptive specifically for tablets and phones, and to speed it up, for me it was fairly slow with all the image loads. Great job though!

[mrose]

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked it!

Working on mobile, but still not sure about what path to take regarding true/html5-based native or a pure html5 based web version. It depends on what direction I decide to go regarding new, novel features for the app.

On the matter of performance, can you give me a bit of info on the equipment you used to view the site?