Hey, another site that was built on a Mac and not tested on anything else.
So, Avenir Next is not a system font on Windows or Linux. On Windows, this means you get the browser's default stylesheet fallback, which means Times New Roman. So your site essentially looks like a Word 97 document to all your Windows visitors, and who-knows-what on the various Linux distros.
Take a look at https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/using-system-ui-fon... and get yourself looking correct for those non-macOS users!
What did you use to build that stylesheet? A framework of some sort?
Suggestion:
a) let the user add their commentary and
b) get folks to mention which chair, too. Some of us invest in ergonomic chairs, and those who don't would benefit from opinions on which chairs are good
For what it's worth, I got this chair recently (a Torch Iris Gold) in Hong Kong, and found it incredible value for money, at least compared to a Herman Miller Aeron, Mirra etc; : it has a bunch of adjustments that the Aeron and Mirra do not. Obviously, this advice isn't that useful if you're not in Hong Kong.
https://shop.freemax.com.hk/eng/product/%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6%E...
Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.
There is a lot of "fake" workstations: everything is so clean! No Fritos bag, no Coke bottles, no paper, no trash, ... just clean desks! Fake! lol :D
Images aren't loading (anymore I guess)
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 402 (Payment Required)
relevant commit strip: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/05/20/monitoring-everythi...
Sorry for the NSFW image, it's been removed. Also temporarily removed the ability to add a station while I figure out next steps.
This is a cool idea. One suggestion though, it would be nice when viewing a setup to be able to use arrow keys to advance to the next setup.
I love the single-screen setup. I have tried dual-monitors, laptop + monitor, etc., but found that everything else on the screen is just a distraction. Most of the time I'll just work on my laptop or plug in a monitor & close my laptop!
The battlestations subreddit has a lot of really epic setups.
I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout.
The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time.
However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a better impression of the work experience in those places (e.g. compared to usesthis.com).
Heh, I feel very tempted to go all in with pictures.
After 15 years of using nothing but the latest and greatest, I'm now stuck with a refurbished HP desktop that smells like burned plastic and an arbitrary collection of questionable-quality accessories on top of a retired kitchen table with a garden chair to sit on.
And the only thing that really bothers me is that the computer might stop working any second and I can't afford a new one.
Life moves in mysterious ways :)
It’s interesting to see that’s there are not so much systems with ergonomic keyboards mice... Are people underestimate importance of that?
As a regular visitor on /r/macsetups, I find your site's navigation cool! I look forward to more setups :-)
Something's up with the retrieval of images. Getting errors (402 status code) from Firebase storage / Google. — EDIT: seems to be fixed!
Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas.
Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore):
- describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc.
- describing setup components by selecting items from a parts list
- adding benchmark results
- filtering / searching setups by varying properties
- breaking down components even further.. there's a huge community around mechanical keyboards for example, these come in all kinds of shapes.. users may have desires along the lines of: "I'd like to see setups with wireless 60% keyboards"
- listing similar setups ("if you like this, you might like..")
- capturing setup updates (and displaying VCS-style diffs :-))
- recently updated systems
- in the same vein: build logs
- image annotations
- up- / downvoting
- comments
Fun stuff to come up with.
Cool, but I’m sad that a picture of my “workstation” is basically just a Thinkpad.
Soooo... everybody's a neat freak with a Ph.D. in cable management.
Suggestion - one-click navigation from one setup to the next would be nice, instead of having to click back, reload the list, and choose another...
I wish something like this exists for UI or work bench setup. How people work with different screens and how editor or other tools setup
Working on the image fix now slowly dying inside
Edit: Fixed!
I was expecting this to be about software customization, but I guess not.
BTW, what is that on the wall below the desk on the 2nd picture? I'm not even sure how to describe it. It looks like a cat door with 4 mini laundry baskets stacked on one another and like a plastic bag in a hole on the top. What is that?
Great idea. I used to be active on the CGTalk forum back in the day and always loved the workstation threads.
Awesome. A feature suggestion. Add option for users to enter details of their laptop, keyboard, mouse model etc when they submit the photo. You can probably create a rank list of popular gear from this. Also can link the gear to Amazon and make some money via referral links ;)
While I think this is cool (workstation porn :), it seems an overkill, you could achieve most (if not all) with a simple tumblr blog/account. Even NSFW upload protection and affiliate marketing. Aren't you folks tired of so many accounts?
I was greeted with an extremely NSFW picture but it seems to be gone for now. Not sure how to guard against that except to be vigilant in deleting such images. Love the website though! Reminds me of /r/battlestations on reddit
I wish the cabling could be made a little neater with desktop setups. Power cables, video cables, USB cables. I use a KVM so even more cables. Hopefully Thunderbolt/USB4 will simplify things a bit in the future.
Unfortunately, all the images are returning "402: Payment Required" for me [1].
All seem to be nice and ordered places, which is definitely not my case.
A nice setup is something I'm really, really looking forward to once my student life is over. So I can't upvote this, viewing it makes me too sad :'(
The first image on this page is goatse and there's no way to report an image. What's your plan for content moderation?
Not much to see there... (No wonder, when in a movie they want to destroy a computer, they attack the screen.)
This is a refreshing fun project. What are your plans for this site if you don't mind me asking?
How do I upload my own setup photo? I see nothing under profile or on the website itself.
Cool! I am working on almost the exact same thing. Grats on shipping!
How is this different from /r/battlestations?
Weird, no images load for me on this site.
I would like to see likes :)
Might need some moderation as an image in the first row was about as NSFW as could possibly be and not remotely related to computers.
Seems to be gore/porn on the frontpage... perhaps some moderation wouldn't be a bad idea?
Oh man you may want to make sure you are monitoring for bad actors. Really didn't need to see that before hopping on a call.
This has been around for years and you'll spend just as long trying to find something worth looking at and, perhaps, replicating. Most of them are just as drab and dreary as you'll find making the site, to some extent, pointless without doing any vetting for something unique.
As a computer hardware nerd, I'm always down for a good build sharing site. And for an alpha, you seem to have gotten the basics down.
I'm curious, though, what this will bring to the table that other sites like Builds GG[0] or PCPartPicker[1] don't currently offer. I would assume including information about the desk and lighting setup? I'd like to know what's on the roadmap for features and sucj.
Best of luck!
You might want to consider adding some form of moderation. Viewed this at work and some very classic nsfw images were uploaded instead of workstations.
You have a NSFW image in there...
Very NSFW image has been added
It's been a long time since I've been linked to goatse.
Nice nsfw frontpage
oh, great, first image it's extremely explicit NSFW. I guess there's no moderation nor machine learning to check the upload.
Thanks for the goatse lol
First thing I see is goatse.
Nice.
wow nice goatse on the front page...
NSFW
If anyone's really into "setups", I'd highly recommend checking out usesthis.com. There's some great discussion on why people like certain tools, and some high-profile people on there from all walks of tech life (writers, podcasters, musicians, mechanical engineers). Here's a few of my favorites:
Aaron Schwartz: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/
Mike Hoye (Mozilla): https://usesthis.com/interviews/mhoye/
Drew DeVault: https://usesthis.com/interviews/drew.devault/
Naomi Wu: https://usesthis.com/interviews/naomi.wu/