Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

Post by kaushalmodi » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 1:33 PM UTC

hidro wrote: post #38

kaushalmodi wrote: post #36

Materialistic is the only way I access Hacker News. But it would be awesome if the developer took some inspiration from the Reddit client Relay ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news ) too :) Great job hidro!

Thanks! I have incorporated the idea of on-screen navigation button and grouping setting options. What else you think I should consider from Relay?

Post by hidro » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 1:57 PM UTC

kaushalmodi wrote: post #82

I have few bug and enhancement reports: 1. The vote up status seems to get reset or so it seems from the app. I had invited this post yesterday, by today the thumbs up icon color was black again. It looked as if I did not vote this thread. So I clicked on that, and then the thumb icon was green. Then I went back to the main page, and remembered to type the following point. So I came back to this thread and the thumb…

Post by hidro » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:00 PM UTC

kaushalmodi wrote: post #80

hidro wrote: post #38

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Thanks! I have incorporated the idea of on-screen navigation button and grouping setting options. What else you think I should consider from Relay?

Thanks for the reply. I really like the "comment search" feature in Relay based on time (show and jump through comments added in last X minutes), words (jump through comments that contain certain words), jump to comments based on author (OP, me), etc. There are many more comment search parameters, but these are my favorite.

Post by hidro » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:12 PM UTC

shostack wrote: post #68

hidro wrote: post #31

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It's because stories/comments are loaded on demand. If you never scroll to it it won't be loaded. It was designed this way partly due to how HN API works, which doesn't provide all data up front. Alternatively app can aggressively load everything up front, which is slow; or paginate content. To me it tends to feel faster when u have progressive UI change (empty card then fill it) than abrupt change (completely empty…

I used another app called HN before yours. It did not have this problem. TBH I'd rather have it aggressively load all the content. It isn't that much data and the current experience is frankly jarring. I also can't seem to figure out how to consistently jump to the next top level parent comment with the nav button. It seems to jump to other comments lower in the current thread which I'm trying to skip past. Am I miss…

Post by hidro » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

PieterH wrote: post #88

hidro wrote: post #67

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Thanks! Would be helpful if you can share your device info so I can try to reproduce that issue. If you still keep the app around you can just send an in-app feedback and it will automatically include such info. Or you can reply here. Or if you can email me, my email should be available on Play Store listing.

OK, so I reinstalled Materialistic and checked the problem is still there (it is), and then sent a Feedback about "Deep linking", that you should see.