Love this idea, I'm such an outdoors person and always looking for new hikes. I find it really interesting that this is an open-source, Wiki kind of site... if the makers see this, how do you plan on keeping the entries high quality?
@cmrberry Really appreciate the kind words! Anyone can submit a change, but before it goes live for all users, it goes through a review process. Basically, I get an email and can either approve or reject the change. So that should keep the spam out, but keeping quality high is trickier because there is a lot that goes into it. Are the pictures high quality? Is the description written in an appropriate tone? Etc. Currently, to fix those sort of issues, I'm manually cleaning things up.
I think ideally it would be run like Wikipedia where there are guidelines on things should be done, and a team of moderators ensures high quality.
@levelsio Think the main thing that makes it feel snappy is Angular - navigating to another page just has to download the new resources it needs for that page (json + images). I also try to push as much content down the initial request as possible (I did a writeup of that here: https://medium.com/@_zaknelson/m...). And of course, the standard stuff - minifying source and images, gzip, cdn, caching, etc.
No Virginia hikes - UNACCEPTABLE! I'll have my dad fill in some great ones so we can go ahead and fix that, he's a bit of an expert and can help out. Love this!
Hey everyone! Wow, this went straight to the top.
I discovered this site a while ago before Product Hunt was a thing. I realized it hadn't been submitted so I gave it a shot.
I don't know the creator personally but he's https://twitter.com/_zaknelson on twitter. Maybe we can get him in here to talk about hike.io.
@nbrempel I just invited him. So glad you posted the site. It really is amazing. I could see adding hikes as you travel - especially in more remote locations. Super cool. THANK YOU for sharing!
Love the fact that the founders decided to open source it. Great execution. I certainly plan to add couple of hikes from my side.
https://github.com/zaknelson/hik...
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