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Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#2

Post by pabue »

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are:

- Intuitive keyboard control

- Link detection in comments with hotkeys to open them directly

- Better readbility and formatting of comments

- Hotkeys for the most common actions

- Ability to open stories or comments in an overlay for reading long texts

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#4

Post by pabue »

drKarl wrote: post #3

Cool idea, but not very Mobile friendly

Thank you. And yeah it does not really work on mobile, but to be fair it's not supposed to. I only spend a few minutes on it to make it somewhat useable. As far as I know here are many other HN clones that improve the mobile experience, so I focused solely on building something cool for desktop/keyboard users.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#5

Post by gus_massa »

It looks nice.

I like to use the mouse anyway. Each post has the number of comments, something like "123 comments ->" Can you make the number of comments and the arrow clickable? Also, the "" inside each post.

It I'm reading a comment, the author and "open" should be clickable too. I didn't understand what "open" means, perhaps change it to "open in HN".

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#6

Post by stavros »

pabue wrote: post #4
drKarl wrote: post #3

Cool idea, but not very Mobile friendly

Thank you. And yeah it does not really work on mobile, but to be fair it's not supposed to. I only spend a few minutes on it to make it somewhat useable. As far as I know here are many other HN clones that improve the mobile experience, so I focused solely on building something cool for desktop/keyboard users.

Deciding that it's not meant for mobile is a perfectly acceptable position to take, in my opinion.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#8

Post by yoavm »

I loved the keyboard navigation. Alt+H opens Firefox's Help menu for me however. I wanted to try using it for a while, but then I wanted to comment here, and well, it seems like commenting still has to be done from the normal interface... :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#9

Post by davidcollantes »

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

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