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kranirudha
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Comment #47664837
Interesting take. Fair enough. How about you saw the comment number go up and you open and now have to scroll entire thread to find where the new comment is at.
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Comment #47660040
AI or not, I'd like to read something that makes sense. You can very well use AI to just fix your spells and grammars instead of asking it to generate something entirely from scrat…
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Comment #47658159
Fair enough. But it's easy to miss replies or not know unless I re-open old posts to see if there's new replies to it, and so on. The experience drops there for me. I once forgot t…
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Comment #47658145
That's actually the question. I'd not want to use a third party app if there's an official one available. Hence I'm still on browser.
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Comment #47658140
Hack is also brilliant. Thanks for your work and continued maintaining it. But would you know why they never made an official mobile app?
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Comment #47658133
Octal is brilliant. But it's third party. My question was why there's no official app.
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Comment #47658126
Yes octal is one of best the third party apps available and quite popular. My question was why there's no official app.
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Comment #47658118
Probably not. It's the same experience as the website. I've tried adding it to home screen so it opens immediately like a bookmark.
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Comment #47658111
Yea, notifications can be considered annoying. but I sometimes miss replies to some posts, cause HN right now doesn't even track these. Maybe a design decision to reduce infra load…
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Comment #47651492
as PWA. That's fair actually. I forgot about that.
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Comment #47651487
That's fair. I guess incentive is the key.
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Comment #47650696
I'm not solving anything. Was just wondering why it doesn't exist. Cause I find it more convenient on mobile. Mostly from discoverability and experience wise.
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Comment #47650310
I'd argue in favor of it though. I understand that most folks here might not prefer it, but it does make it more accessible and convenient.
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Comment #47650300
Fair enough.
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Comment #47650291
That's a good point. Bad for me I guess but should be good for product, no? I was thinking from a product standpoint, why wouldn't they want one if it increases usage.
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Why doesn't HN have a mobile app?
I think its much more convenient to access from a mobile app. My reddit usage grew massively when the reddit mobile came upto on par with other third party apps over last couple of…