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Rebel's Relay - Tracking ALS Ice Bucket Challenges for Rebel

A few weeks ago, I started brainstorming a way to track and view all of the ALS Ice Bucket challenge videos in an easy format, and see how big the web of nominations gets.

Presenting Rebel's Relay: https://rebels-relay.com/

I wanted to put together an open framework, where the data could be crowdsourced. I named it Rebel's Relay, because the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is kind of like a relay race (and it's an alliteration).

I know that the videos are currently out of date, but I hope to get it updated soon; I wanted to get a working prototype first. I initially just searched this subreddit for "ice bucket" and added the first batch of videos. I also know that there are some that are posted elsewhere.

For anyone interested in contributing, there's a GitHub repo link at the bottom of page.

If you want to help out, feel free to leave a comment here, or you can create an issue or pull request via GitHub, information is at the bottom of the site. I have an issue template for easily submitting new "Challange Submissions".

I also appreciate any constructive feedback that you provide in this thread, I know that there's a lot of room for improvement.

Note: embedded videos behave a bit different, based on the source link. Once shown, Instagram videos require users to press play, and they play unmuted. For Reddit videos, they would play immediately when shown, but muted (which annoys me that it auto-play/muted can't be configured). As a middle-ground, I added a push-to-play button to show the Reddit video, but you still have to unmute manully; which I think is better than letting the video play for 15 seconds before you realize that you need to also unmute it and starting it over.

rebels-relay.com
u/_illogical_ — 2 months ago