Picflood
January 27, 2014 9:59 AM Subscribe
Picflood
Picflood presents an unfiltered stream of pictures publicly posted to Twitter, updated in real time, with or without a filter for text in the tweet. Because of the specific Twitter API stream that Picflood hooks into, users see only a small subset of Twitter photos, but they still come through fast enough that it's hard to fully process each image before it disappears. Very NSFW.
Picflood presents an unfiltered stream of pictures publicly posted to Twitter, updated in real time, with or without a filter for text in the tweet. Because of the specific Twitter API stream that Picflood hooks into, users see only a small subset of Twitter photos, but they still come through fast enough that it's hard to fully process each image before it disappears. Very NSFW.
Role: programmer
Very nicely done. It's all client-side, right, you don't have a server doing any work?
I like the addition of the filter option.
I wish the flowing layout weren't so janky. Maybe there's a way to do Pinterest-style image packing so everything is in neat rows?
Instastrm.com is a similar sort of thing for Instagram, but I prefer your style of displaying just images.
posted by Nelson at 10:30 AM on January 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
I like the addition of the filter option.
I wish the flowing layout weren't so janky. Maybe there's a way to do Pinterest-style image packing so everything is in neat rows?
Instastrm.com is a similar sort of thing for Instagram, but I prefer your style of displaying just images.
posted by Nelson at 10:30 AM on January 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
Nelson: Thanks! It's primarily server-side: it's the server that makes the API calls, parses the tweet text, populates a database with the media URLs and tweet metadata, and responds to AJAX requests from the client.
The feel of the layout was intended to be a bit chaotic. It's using a jQuery plugin to do optimal packing of rectangles of different sizes and aspect ratios, and I do some CSS trickery to maintain aspect ratios of the images when a window is resized. If you want to take this further on MeFi Mail, I'm happy to. :-)
Thanks for the link to Instastrm.
(And thanks, telstar!)
posted by quarantine at 5:24 AM on January 31, 2014 [1 favorite]
The feel of the layout was intended to be a bit chaotic. It's using a jQuery plugin to do optimal packing of rectangles of different sizes and aspect ratios, and I do some CSS trickery to maintain aspect ratios of the images when a window is resized. If you want to take this further on MeFi Mail, I'm happy to. :-)
Thanks for the link to Instastrm.
(And thanks, telstar!)
posted by quarantine at 5:24 AM on January 31, 2014 [1 favorite]
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