http://www.pxlet.com should be in the list as well. It provides a hub for tech news.
Other ways to read Hacker News
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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. I use Safari for both desktop and mobile, if that matters. I never search. I don't need custom styles to increase readability. I don't need more space around headlines, or article preview thumbnails, or any other superfluous thing. I open interesting headlines for reading and comment threads for discussion into background tabs. I read. I close tabs. I move on with my day. Why did you think I was joking?
- Perfect: No better implementation can exist. - Best: No better implementation exists. - Favorite: No better implementation is known to me. The current implementation of HN is at best decent. I can think of 100 ways to improve it. I would be surprised you couldn't.
I honestly can't think of any.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#143I had no idea there were people that needed to view HN differently - let alone 21+ ways. I find the "native" presentation basically perfect for both desktop and mobile browsing.
I can't agree with you, reading comments is an awful experience on both desktop and mobile. Their addition of the [-] eases the pain but it is still painful to click on it on mobile, and it still on the freaking right of every comments instead of being on the left. I know have two [-] [-] on both side of each comments because I use a firefox plugin to have one in the right place.
Why is it so awful? Collapsing, threaded comments seem to be a great way to organize organic discussions. How would you do it differently? 'Awful' implies that it is very far from your preferred format.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#144I use https://hckrnews.com/ since I can sort out top 10 or 20 and top 50% (my usual default) or hit all to see everything as it updates. It also keeps track of dates and when, on all, what's new since my last visit.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Perfect: No better implementation can exist. - Best: No better implementation exists. - Favorite: No better implementation is known to me. The current implementation of HN is at best decent. I can think of 100 ways to improve it. I would be surprised you couldn't.
I honestly can't think of any.
Thread collapse on the right, increase text size (seriously why is it so tiny?), remove pointless numbers on the left side of homepage, remove BS sponsored YC job postings, take better advantage of horizontal real estate on desktop, make everything easier to click on mobile (I have to zoom to hit stuff all the time).
This site is fine, and I use the regular version on desktop and mobile, but let's not deceive ourselves into thinking it's perfect.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#146I use inoreader so there's no reason to use these, only thing I'd like to see improved with RSS would be to update less often (like that it would took 2hrs to update) and in that time it would get decided if it gets included or not (so that there's no flagged, dupes or when title changes multiple times it would not show up multiple times).
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#147I also made native macOS HN client app called MackerNews. It renders the article in a web view (readable if possible) but everything else is native. Btw its a client, you can login, vote, comment, etc :) http://mackernews.com
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#148just use https://news.ycombinator.com - works great on mobile too
I found the normal website really hard to use, and have tried using a bunch of third-party skins and userscripts and stuff to make it look better, but they all seemed even worse in some way.
Then i had a revelation and zoomed in 150%, now i'm perfectly happy with the normal site.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is one of the few sites I frequent where I don't wish they would improve the interface. I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare. Seriously, for the main interface it is pretty much perfect. Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
> I've been dreading the day HN gets the Dread something else; that won't happen. We love the text-based, information-dense, minimal style that pg created. I loved it years before becoming a mod and can't imagine changing it. Besides, we're so old-fashioned now that we're due to become retro chic in another half-cycle. Why sell at the bottom?
You won't, but what about the next guy? That's always the way these things go. Someone creates a nice simple service and gets a ton of traffice, but gets bored with running it and moves on. Next guy goes "This site looks like it is from 1997, and it's barely monetized at all, I've got this book on web design that will make it look 1000% better by getting rid of all of these ugly words and making it so beautifully minimal."
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#150Critically missing is Webshit Weekly: http://n-gate.com/