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Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

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Re: Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

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Post by msephton »

@sylwester is the repo run by a bot? or is it you? I'm OK with either, it's just issues are being marked as "help wanted" even though they are done in PRs waiting to be merged. It seems the replies in the threads ignore all user comments? What's going on?

And I've completed your big "login" feature request, it is done, just waiting for the PRs to be merged so I can make a nice clean rebase and tidy PR for you to review. But if small PRs aren't being merged I'm reluctant to file a larger one.

Re: Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

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Post by ios-contractor »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #22
ios-contractor wrote: post #4

Looks great. Does it support pinch zoom like webpage hn does

Needing to resort to pinch and zoom for everything is an indicator of bad accessibility. HN “supporting” pinch and zoom is more like… HN not being responsive and/or being good about dynamic text size.

pinch and zoom doesn't really have to do with hn. All webpages support pinch and zoom. iOS-wide text enlargement isn't always a solution

Re: Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

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Post by msephton »

charrondev wrote: post #9

I love to see an open source implementation. I’ve been using [Octal]( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888... ) for a while now but it’s not open source. Would you be opposed to a pull request adding login/posting support? I think the way it works in Octal is webview for login, snatching the cookies out of the webview, then using the same posting endpoints as the website with the cookie.

I added login support day one, it took a while to be reviewed but has now been merged. My method is better than Octal as no screen scraping or html tag parsing is done.

My pace of development seems much higher than the repo, so I will probably build out my own fork from this point.

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