Has_not_been_viewed_much

Has_not_been_viewed_much(iamwillwang.com)

97 points by wxw 3 hours ago | 24 comments

ggm 1 hour ago |

I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.

kreelman 9 minutes ago | |

This site is vaguely addictive in a dopamine feeding sense. What will the next image be? ...One more click won't hurt... :-)

appplication 38 minutes ago |

I enjoyed this one. Their other work was quite somber and then this title threw me for a loop https://www.artic.edu/artworks/151439/uranus-8

kreelman 10 minutes ago | |

...I can't work out what this is.

monk_grilla 1 hour ago |

This was my favourite of the ones I saw:

https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/813984c9-f0a6-c340-5e89-f1c00af...

Really moving piece. Great idea on the part of the API devs!

Ogre 1 hour ago |

There used to be a site called Forgotify that would only play songs from Spotify that had zero listens. So each song played, of course, removed that song from the set that could ever be played by Forgotify. Doesn't look like it's around any more, sadly.

andai 25 minutes ago | |

There's a couple of those for YouTube.

https://vid404.com/ is for videos with zero views. It generates search queries for finding them.

For videos with low views there's https://petittube.com/ (loads a random video with low view count) and http://astronaut.io/ (which has an "automatic stream" of videos).

dofm 1 hour ago | |

Seems likely that Spotify is stuffed full of "songs" with zero listens now.

Klathmon 2 hours ago |

How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title)

Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?

[1] https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/67395c18-c83c-865f-b0db-4736574...

netsharc 2 hours ago | |

The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea?

Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...

dylan604 1 hour ago | | |

There's no real way to know that they really are that popular or just what the streamer wants viewers to think they are

Retr0id 1 hour ago | |

If the views are all real views it's hardly "inflating" anything.

Klathmon 1 hour ago | | |

If they're using a static threshold of 200 views and there aren't many of these left it could pull them all out of that category.

It could obviously be fixed but I was more curious than anything

c-hendricks 1 hour ago |

Kudos to whoever put this in the response, honestly what a fun idea.

hahahaa 1 hour ago | |

Opposite of a 429 right!

peesem 1 hour ago |

it keeps saying "failed to load" for me. through the magic of the developer console, i can see that the api calls are working but the actual image requests are not. it seems that this is a case of an overzealous cloudflare turnstile setup since if i open the image links in a new tab and pass a challenge i can view them.

peesem 1 hour ago | |

if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange

functionmouse 1 hour ago |

I wish I could click the picture to pop out scale to full 1x

jofzar 2 hours ago |

Cool project, it's actually a shame if it gets popular enough then it won't return anything

xmcp123 1 hour ago | |

A shame but maybe also the point? If the under appreciated art is being viewed, that sounds great.

jofzar 1 hour ago | | |

It's more that they then go to the "low view" threshold then are no longer viewed and because the date is hard coded then it will never show any more.

I agree it's the point of the project but it's a bit of a shame someone could go to the site and see no art.

thakoppno 2 hours ago |

there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.

Boss0565 2 hours ago |

Wow, some of these are super cool

dofm 1 hour ago | |

Gauguin, Manet, Rembrandt and Whistler sketches, Weston nudes, Harry Callahan photos, amazing things indeed.

People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute madness, to my mind. Unfinished and transitory work is much more interesting to me. Photographers' contact sheets especially.

ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago |

Reminded me of least viewed pages on wikipedia collections or neglected articles...

See:

In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)

https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles

(Some discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524943, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955600)

NooneAtAll3 2 hours ago |

did it get hug of death?