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

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

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Post by willyyr »

tsucres wrote: post #59
willyyr wrote: post #57

Looks nice! Have been using another client till now. One question though. Why do I have to enter my credentials directly in the app? The app I'm using now uses kind of an OAuth flow which makes me feel better somehow.

I don't know what app you're talking about, but I find the fact that it uses OAuth disturbing: in my knowledge, HN doesn't officially support OAuth. So your app must interact with a third party endpoint. (I may be wrong here, it's just speculation). In any cases, it doesn't seem more trustworthy than typing your credential "directly in the app". HNBuddy interacts with the HN website through a web scraper that is open…

I'm using the one from http://hn.premii.com/ and when logging in it takes me to the HN website login page. As I said it kind of looks like an OAuth flow but probably isn't :)

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

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Post by lobster_johnson »

avtar wrote: post #60
lobster_johnson wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Here's a super quick mockup of a style I think would be more legible (Helvetica, since my Mac doesn't have San Francisco): https://i.imgur.com/IvERHL7.png Less real estate used for timestamp, use dedicated colours for comment and upvote counts, and a larger font and thicker weight for the headline. I hope you change your mind about opening the code.

I'm assuming 'uptown' is a typo in your mockup?

That's the user who posted the story.

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

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Post by c256 »

nathell wrote: post #38
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.

Doesn’t that depend on wether you’re using a GNU tr or a BSD variant? I feel like the brackets were necessary back in the day.

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

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Post by mark212 »

The feature I use most is "hide." Because most of the news stories aren't interesting to me, and it really bugs me that it's not in the same position on the second line. Would love to have it be flush left on that line so I can consistently tap/click it or a swipe in an iOS app.

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

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Post by balladeer »

tsucres wrote: post #43
Watabou wrote: post #29

I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment), it's the most feature rich HN client I've seen yet, so it's a bit hard for me to switch to this just yet. That said, I tried it out and here's my feedback for HNbuddy: - This looks really nice, and loads comments super fast for me! - An iPad version of HNBuddy…

Thank you for your long feedback! I focused on the "passive" usage of HN for this first version. I'll add the downvote feature (along with the post/comment submission feature) in the next major update.

Maybe leave the passive mode with an enable/disable option in settings somewhere so that a user can continue passively until duty calls :)

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

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Post by qubex »

tsucres wrote: post #43
Watabou wrote: post #29

I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment), it's the most feature rich HN client I've seen yet, so it's a bit hard for me to switch to this just yet. That said, I tried it out and here's my feedback for HNbuddy: - This looks really nice, and loads comments super fast for me! - An iPad version of HNBuddy…

Thank you for your long feedback! I focused on the "passive" usage of HN for this first version. I'll add the downvote feature (along with the post/comment submission feature) in the next major update.

I've long been very frustrated by the search for a “perfect” HackerNews client for iOS (this is a thread I posted here a while ago asking for suggestions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838104 ).

I really like HNBuddy. It cannot become my main client until there's a dedicated iPad version and until it allows me to comment, but I really like it and look forward to watching your improvements.

Thanks for bringing this.

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

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Post by timmonsjg »

Cyberdog wrote: post #35
timmonsjg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Never stated which is correct or not.
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