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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#71

Does anyone know of a hacker news viewer that can sort an article's comments chronologically or on another criteria? My only gripe with the default site is that there is no way to quickly locate the most recent comments on an article.

My hack is to "find on page" "minutes ago" , at least it gets me the last hour.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would. Whether you should is another thing entirely. I'm asking why noone seems to even offer the option?

I can't speak for anyone else, but if it were me, I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me enough to use it, so why bother?

People likely would use it. It's a HN account, not a bank account.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#76
For the longest time I wanted something that generates an offline copy of top-X articles with their best comments. For the no-data/wifi train, plane, etc. Article would be a bonus, but I often check the discussion first :-)

The only offline offering on that list does it for articles, but not for comments. So, right axis, wrong direction for me.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#80

just use https://news.ycombinator.com - works great on mobile too

I'll add my voice to this echo-chamber too.

I've tried a few of the alternatives, but I always come back to the main HN site. A lot of the alternative sites are laggy; these either cache their DB fetches or simply only refresh on a schedule.

Right now the only thing I'd change, is move the Search box from the bottom of the page to the top - simply because I always forget it's there.

Actually, thought of a second one - a native RSS feed for the '/newist' page - I currently use the feed provided by HNRSS, but it's not realtime.

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