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Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by tsucres »

bleomycin wrote: post #24

Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack. 1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time. 2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.

1. What kind of gesture would allow that?

2. That doesn't seem complicated to add! Seeing the feedbacks here really gets me motivated to improve the app, so I'll try to add this in an upcoming version.

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by yojex »

tsucres wrote: post #26
tnova wrote: post #22

Definitely fast and elegant. I like it very much! I thought at first, that it didn't show comment threads with indents, I almost missed the "X replies" label. I like it the way it is, however. Just two things: 1. In the "Lists"-tab, it says "synched". I'm not a native speaker, but I guess that should be "synced"? 2. Maybe I just missed it, but: Is there any way to submit a comment from within the app?

1. I guess? I'm not a native speaker either. I maybe just made up a new abbreviation for "synchronised"? 2. Not currently. I'm planning on adding this in the next few weeks Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you like it!

As a native speaker, I believe I see "synced" more, but "synched" is still understandable.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by Cyberdog »

timmonsjg wrote: post #28
timdorr wrote: post #21

There's a typo on the App Store listing screenshot: "Never loose the news you liked." Should be lose .

Judging by this and the word 'customisable', I'd wager the author is outside the US where these spellings are a bit common.

Inside the US, "loose" as a typo of "lose" is common too, but inside or outside it's still wrong.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by tsucres »

timmonsjg wrote: post #28
timdorr wrote: post #21

There's a typo on the App Store listing screenshot: "Never loose the news you liked." Should be lose .

Judging by this and the word 'customisable', I'd wager the author is outside the US where these spellings are a bit common.

Thank you for correcting me. I'm indeed not a native english speaker.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by tsucres »

pmilla1606 wrote: post #30

Does this download/preload all comments? This is one feature I can't find anywhere except for HN Zero[0]. When HN Zero loads the list of stories, it pulls all comment threads down too. That way I can read the comments when I'm in the subway. HN Zero is great but it's a bit dated at this point and lacks some other features that I've learned to live without (no copy/paste from comments, no sharing of links, no iPhone X…

Unfortunately, it doesn't.

But I'm adding this on my list of potential new features for next versions!

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by nathell »

sirsuki wrote: post #14

For the curious, The J. Caesar quote "L xvh wklv dss hyhubgdb, dqg L oryh lw!" can be decoded with the following command: echo 'L xvh wklv dss hyhubgdb, dqg L oryh lw!' | tr '[D-ZA-Cd-za-c]' '[A-Za-z]' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher Well played @tsucres. Well played.

The square brackets in your tr invocation are unnecessary.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by mynameisvlad »

tsucres wrote: post #31
bleomycin wrote: post #24

Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack. 1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time. 2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.

1. What kind of gesture would allow that? 2. That doesn't seem complicated to add! Seeing the feedbacks here really gets me motivated to improve the app, so I'll try to add this in an upcoming version. Thank you!

Most reddit/HN clients I've seen implement it with a long swipe from the left of the screen.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

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Post by wlesieutre »

tsucres wrote: post #31
bleomycin wrote: post #24

Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack. 1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time. 2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.

1. What kind of gesture would allow that? 2. That doesn't seem complicated to add! Seeing the feedbacks here really gets me motivated to improve the app, so I'll try to add this in an upcoming version. Thank you!

You normally get it for free if you're using a UINavigationController, see interactivePopGestureRecognizer.

I've never touched it beyond letting the default one work, but it's probably done using UIScreenEdgePanGestureRecognizer. If there's another gesture being grabbed by the active view (like scrolling) you might need to tell your UIGestureRecognizerDelegate to allow the gestures simultaneously.

EDIT - Oh I see, parent comment doesn't like the system standard of swiping from the edge of the screen. So that'd be a regular pan gesture recognizer, and probably trickier to do at the same time as scroll view.

I'd be hesitant to take that suggestion, since it means you'd never be able to use a "swipe right" gesture on the individual list items, like what you see in Mail for marking a message as read/unread.

Here's another feature suggestion, shamelessly lifted from the Apollo reddit client. Long press on the navigation bar to toggle between light and dark theme.

I'd also point out that your "sliders" icon for the settings tab is rather unconventional on iOS. Users will expect a gear icon to represent settings.

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