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Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by mrmondo »

oddlyaromatic wrote: post #50
mrmondo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally think that’s helping the problem of the infestation of poor performing JavaScript sites making their way onto the desktop, often they’re so bad it’s more sensible to open those sites in a Firefox / Safari window.

I guess it comes down to what the user prioritizes, but I think it's good to have the option of running something on the desktop if I feel like it.

But that’s no different to running it in Firefox or whatever, it’s not a desktop app - it’s just JavaScript wrapper that is essentially doing the same thing but giving you less control and generally higher memory usage.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by skybrian »

meteor333 wrote: post #70
skybrian wrote: post #68

Could you drop the images, to get more news stories on the page? (Or an option to do so.)

Yes. You can click on the icons on the top right corner to switch to a compact view.

Thanks!

The second thing I noticed is that the back button doesn't work after clicking on a story. (It exits the site, bringing me back to Hacker News.)

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by avenius »

Xeoncross wrote: post #35

Over 50% of the posts are Trump. I would really like to see someone make an app that focuses on filtering through the click-bait articles we're fed to actually break news into important events and subjects. I guess I don't consider "most shares" a good way to rank. Bush, Obama, then Trump always are at the top unless some other celebrity does something big. Looks really nice, good job!

I've been gathering stories from a collection of prominent news sites for about a year, and apparently the media just loves writing about Trump. It's consistently been the most prominent keyword (in number / ratio of occurrances). So that's not necessarily the author's fault.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by kodfodrasz »

pvdebbe wrote: post #74
kodfodrasz wrote: post #30

So nowadays app means a website.

It's a web app if it works on the WWW and requires JS to work. Otherwise it's a website. That is how I classify them anyway.

So an electron based JS client for a cloud service Accessed over the WWW is a web app (not a simple app. although I'd prefer if those were also not referred to as apps)?

But a JS heavy website is an app.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

mrmondo wrote: post #71
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it comes down to what the user prioritizes, but I think it's good to have the option of running something on the desktop if I feel like it.

But that’s no different to running it in Firefox or whatever, it’s not a desktop app - it’s just JavaScript wrapper that is essentially doing the same thing but giving you less control and generally higher memory usage.

Sure. It's like driving to to the gym to run on a treadmill. But I'm not sure that other people doing something for themselves for their own reasons needs to be corrected because you or I would find it suboptimal for ourselves. If the person wants the thing, let them do the thing. What are we, the thing police?

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by mosselman »

mrmondo wrote: post #71
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it comes down to what the user prioritizes, but I think it's good to have the option of running something on the desktop if I feel like it.

But that’s no different to running it in Firefox or whatever, it’s not a desktop app - it’s just JavaScript wrapper that is essentially doing the same thing but giving you less control and generally higher memory usage.

Firefox does not have the WhatsApp logo, I cannot close and reopen a browser tab as easily as I can the nativefied app, etc. Of course it is different.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by oblib »

jszymborski wrote: post #24

Are there any copyright issues with you showing the full article content? I understand that the headlines, images and blurbs are from public RSS feeds, but I'm almost certain the article content doesn't, not at least for many of these.

I wondered about that too when I clicked on few WaPo article.

I've never paid for a subscription there but I do think they put out some quality journalism and I still get to catch a bit of their stuff with the Apple News app on my phone but I know Apple has cut a deal with them.

I was about to bookmark this but I won't use an app to bypass their paywall. I have to respect that and it'd be pretty hard to not if I loaded this every morning with the rest of my news sites.

But I do like the work they've done on it. It's very nice.

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