It is a cool visualization, so I don't want to diminish the effort to make it in any way. And as an experiment in visualization, it is interesting. (If a bit large and laggy.) But if the authors expect people to use it to navigate content, it has a few problems:
1) The topics don't seem to be hierarchical, so as I drill down on one area, I get all kinds of things that don't seem related. I have no idea what I'm missing unless I zoom into the whole thing.
2) I don't know where my browser is going when I click a link. That is a security problem.
3) I cannot tell how this data is sourced. Are these all the links posted to HN? Just the ones that got upvotes? Something else? Because while we have some great links here, we also get a lot of stinkers.
4) Much of the value of HN is the discussions. I didn't see a way to navigate to discussions related to any of the links.
1) The topics don't seem to be hierarchical, so as I drill down on one area, I get all kinds of things that don't seem related. I have no idea what I'm missing unless I zoom into the whole thing.
2) I don't know where my browser is going when I click a link. That is a security problem.
3) I cannot tell how this data is sourced. Are these all the links posted to HN? Just the ones that got upvotes? Something else? Because while we have some great links here, we also get a lot of stinkers.
4) Much of the value of HN is the discussions. I didn't see a way to navigate to discussions related to any of the links.