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Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#111
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> One App to replace them all. You mean like a browser? > Intuitive UI I understand I'm probably not the target market for this - but I'm very uninspired by the Slack-copy design trend happening everywhere.

It's interesting that the Slack UI design is becoming so popular. Also the VS Code UI (which is very similar to Slack) is another style growing in popularity... Maybe it's easy to find templates for these styles?

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#112

It looks pretty, but I'm having trouble understanding the use case. A core part of browsing Hacker News or Reddit is opening the links and reading the articles, which are web pages. Once I'm opening web pages, then I want to be able to bookmark them, arrange them in tabs, find them in my history, have them saved in sessions by my session manager extension, configure how they are handled by my ad blocker, search for r…

I'm definitely in the target group for this. I consume this content just like a faucet and don't care about bookmarks or tab arranging or that. And I generally like the app experience better for most of the social media I consume, so if someone pulls off a really well made UI that consolidates Reddit and HN I might well end up using it.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#114
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its a native cross platform app. Not a native Mac app or Windows app.

It would be better to say it's a cross-platform app then I think. For me native app means it's a native Mac or Windows app.

I'd guess it's written for the normal person rather than someone who understands that cross-platform means.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#116

The idea that web communities and content have become standardized enough to have a single look-and-feel client is an intriguing idea. And it looks beautiful. Unfortunately, I just wouldn't install a native app for that. My browser is plenty performant to handle it, and I want to be able to call it up wherever I am -- on my home computer, work computer, friend's computer, backup work laptop, whatever -- without havin…

Privacy? With a FOSS (or even just third-party) app, the service operator has less fine-grained tracking and behavioral data for you as a user.

The UI can also be designed with the user's best interest in mind, as an alternative to the egagement-driven dark UX patterns that have started becoming the status quo on the web in just a few years.

I use a CLI for Reddit[0] specifically for this reason - I would definitely be potential user for something like Yack. Opening links from the app in an external browser is trivial. Now that you mention it, it'd be a good idea to make it work in the other direction as well. Surely it wouldn't be too tricky to make a browser extension for this?

[0]: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely agree julien kervizic, it does seems like something that any devout hackernews reader could use.

Something is weird with all these new accounts with few comments on this thread supporting this. Are you using a bunch of secondary accounts just to comment on your post?

I have my tinfoil hat on as well.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#120
I think the implications of an open source API-only access method for these services are huge for user privacy. Taking reliance off of company-provided JavaScript will result in truer control over what actually gets sent to their servers. Advertising would have to be fought for through client acceptance at the API level. The tradeoff for users is access to new features and accepting more responsibility for upgrading/maintaining the interface.
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