Vizeddit: Live Reddit votes and comments from the Reddit API visualized in pure javascript (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsDauntless17y ago3 comments

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thomaspaine17y ago· 1 in thread

Cool. How does this work? Is it polling the Reddit API every 15 seconds? Gnip? Comet? Something else?

It's polling reddit - every 30 seconds by the looks of the code. Fairly standard AJAX approach to grab reddit's JDON data via their API.

apu17y ago

These are beautiful! It would be fascinating to see a similar set of visualizations for HN.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse