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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

#131
post #88

Like the keyboard shortcuts, and miss the old design. Would love these shortcuts with the old design; if it ain't broke, go fly a kite and be with your kids instead.

The Refined HackerNews browser extension gets you pretty close to those keyboard shortcuts without changing the design.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#132
Like it! Some suggestions to consider:

- I'm missing a "jump back up" shortcut, something I'd recommend using capital "G" for, like in Vim.

- It seems it hits some hardcoded limit for paging? i.e. it does not allow me to open more stories once I reach the "bottom" one.

- Two things I'm used to that exist in the Android app I'm using: * stories are numbered, so I see how far from the top I am. It's a dimmed down grey number, but it's there and I like it. * depending on the number of comments, an article can be marked as hot with a "fire" emoji. I got used to that to immediately spot things which are trending.

Overall, well done! I am definitely subscribing, and I'll test if I can switch to it on Android.

(edit: typos)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#133
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…

Can’t wait to try this when I get home!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#134
post #66

I’m impressed that it works on mobile too. I guess best ux is with a keyboard but still it’s nice to see what it’s about.

In the beginning it was so bad on mobile that it was actually completely unusable. I think it's still not very good but at least it's somewhat usable. A keyboard is definitely the recommended input device. ;)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#137
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…

Great work, especially the comment navigation. I find it much easier to view the comment threads and scan top level comments.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#138
post #134
post #66

I’m impressed that it works on mobile too. I guess best ux is with a keyboard but still it’s nice to see what it’s about.

In the beginning it was so bad on mobile that it was actually completely unusable. I think it's still not very good but at least it's somewhat usable. A keyboard is definitely the recommended input device. ;)

I immediately got that keyboard is the intended usage, but also was impressed it works on mobile at all. You obviously took care to consider it, and I wouldn’t have blamed you if you hadn’t. Good job!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#139
Great design! Unfortunately it doesn't work on my setup.

On Firefox on Linux with SwayWM

None of the hotkeys work except the arrows and hjkl.

Alt-h opens up mozilla's help menu.

Enter opens up the site's help menu. (maybe because that was the last thing I clicked on?)

And 'o' does nothing that I can tell.

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