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Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

15 points by lortex ago | 5 comments

I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface.

This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million events imported from Wikipedia / Wikidata, scored using PageRank. There is more information on the about page.

If you're interested in the stack: I use Kotlin Multiplatform extensively, with Compose Multiplatform for the UI, communicates with the backend using Kotlinx-RPC and behind the hood a simple Postgres database on a Hetzner machine.

Arslan1997 |next [-]

This is awesome

Jtarii |next |previous [-]

Instantly freezes the moment I try to interact with it on firefox.

lortex |root |parent [-]

Hi, thank you for giving it a try ! I test both on Firefox (152) and Chrome, mobile and desktop. If you don't mind please send me (lucas@pluvina.ge) the error message that appears in the console.

0gs |previous [-]

yeah, borked on Chrome Android too. too bad, i want to see it!

lortex |root |parent [-]

Hi, I'm sorry for that, my backend is struggling a bit I didn't expect to be on the front page so soon. On https://www.diena.co/everything/ there is a page with a video if you want to see how it looks and behaves.