Has_not_been_viewed_much

(iamwillwang.com)

66 points | by wxw 1 hour ago

10 comments

  • ggm 2 minutes ago
    I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.
  • c-hendricks 22 minutes ago
    Kudos to whoever put this in the response, honestly what a fun idea.
    • hahahaa 2 minutes ago
      Opposite of a 429 right!
  • functionmouse 7 minutes ago
    I wish I could click the picture to pop out scale to full 1x
  • peesem 13 minutes ago
    it keeps saying "failed to load" for me. through the magic of the developer console, i can see that the api calls are working but the actual image requests are not. it seems that this is a case of an overzealous cloudflare turnstile setup since if i open the image links in a new tab and pass a challenge i can view them.
    • peesem 12 minutes ago
      if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange
  • Klathmon 1 hour ago
    How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title)

    Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?

    [1] https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/67395c18-c83c-865f-b0db-4736574...

    • Retr0id 13 minutes ago
      If the views are all real views it's hardly "inflating" anything.
      • Klathmon 8 minutes ago
        If they're using a static threshold of 200 views and there aren't many of these left it could pull them all out of that category.

        It could obviously be fixed but I was more curious than anything

    • netsharc 1 hour ago
      The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea?

      Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...

  • ChrisArchitect 4 minutes ago
    Reminded me of least viewed pages on wikipedia collections or neglected articles...

    See:

    In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)

    https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles

    (Some discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524943, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955600)

  • jofzar 48 minutes ago
    Cool project, it's actually a shame if it gets popular enough then it won't return anything
    • xmcp123 6 minutes ago
      A shame but maybe also the point? If the under appreciated art is being viewed, that sounds great.
  • thakoppno 35 minutes ago
    there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.
  • Boss0565 1 hour ago
    Wow, some of these are super cool
  • NooneAtAll3 1 hour ago
    did it get hug of death?