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Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

#41

Very nice. Commenting from it right now. First feature request from me would be to adjust text size. I've start bumping up the default text size on all sites by one or two notches in the past year. Getting old, y'know. But also, as someone pointed out on a design blogpost a decade ago, why not make things easier to read. I didnt need it then, but I appreciate it now. Really happy that I can run this on MacOS14 cause…

> I've start bumping up the default text size on all sites by one or two notches in the past year

I've been doing this too; at some point I should probably just change the scaling of my desktop as a whole. But I like my high resolution, multiple windows layout too much to do it yet!

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

#42
post #36

Congrats and building and releasing something. I guess for reading things like this, I'm just a browser kind-of guy. But I still appreciate youre building a NATIVE app that's using around 85MB of working memory (according to my Activity Monotor), and not some Electron thing. I'm probably just a anti-app guy, but I tried it out. First thing I went to do was CMD-F to search for some strings in the comments section. Act…

If you're looking for an alt frontend on the web (+PWA), check out https://hcker.news

There will be a way to do user actions like upvote/comment/favorite/flag soon.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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post #36

Congrats and building and releasing something. I guess for reading things like this, I'm just a browser kind-of guy. But I still appreciate youre building a NATIVE app that's using around 85MB of working memory (according to my Activity Monotor), and not some Electron thing. I'm probably just a anti-app guy, but I tried it out. First thing I went to do was CMD-F to search for some strings in the comments section. Act…

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc.

Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

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