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Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

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if this comment gets 200 replies, will stay up all night and release it this morning.

I conjure you, my HN brothers, reply as thou hast never replied in thine life.

Dark mode is not a option but a feature... or it should be marketed as such...

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#132

The idea that web communities and content have become standardized enough to have a single look-and-feel client is an intriguing idea. And it looks beautiful. Unfortunately, I just wouldn't install a native app for that. My browser is plenty performant to handle it, and I want to be able to call it up wherever I am -- on my home computer, work computer, friend's computer, backup work laptop, whatever -- without havin…

I also don't get the advantage compared to having, let's say favorites in your browser, or use some browser plugins to augment it.

What if there is this new community site? You need to develop something again in the unified browser to make it work.

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#134

It looks pretty, but I'm having trouble understanding the use case. A core part of browsing Hacker News or Reddit is opening the links and reading the articles, which are web pages. Once I'm opening web pages, then I want to be able to bookmark them, arrange them in tabs, find them in my history, have them saved in sessions by my session manager extension, configure how they are handled by my ad blocker, search for r…

Yack has a built in browser with reader mode. You can also configure it to open all links in your default browser. It will also allow you to bookmark (and schedule for later) links, posts, comments. In the future, it will allow users to curate their own feed and share it with others. For example; you can create a feed that has posts from specific channels on YouTube, subbreddits on Reddit and people on Twitter.

Oh yay another browser bundled with software. Why not just handle links out to our own browsers?

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#135

Remember RSS readers? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I use feedly with over 100 feeds and an ifttt hook that saves the article to instapaper when I click 'read later' and it works great.

Can you see comments with RSS feeds? Also do you pay for Feedly?

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#136
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It also means "talk"

I've only ever seen that spelled as "yak", so it took me a while to make that connection.

I thought "yak" was the bison animal. And that's what I thought of when I saw the name of this app -- not vomiting.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

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Sounds like RSS.

I have to agree. Nice work, and looks pretty, but Feedly scratches this itch for me almost perfectly. And it expands well beyond Reddit and HN. The only better solution would be if I hosted my own and used an open source app. I'll get around to it.

Does Feedly/RSS right now with community sites like HN/reddit support all the comments? Do they support comments in blog posts? I may have not played around enough or missed something.

When I tried rss with Feedly before. I wasn’t getting blog post comments. I don’t think reddit/HN comments either but could be wrong there.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#138

It looks pretty, but I'm having trouble understanding the use case. A core part of browsing Hacker News or Reddit is opening the links and reading the articles, which are web pages. Once I'm opening web pages, then I want to be able to bookmark them, arrange them in tabs, find them in my history, have them saved in sessions by my session manager extension, configure how they are handled by my ad blocker, search for r…

Yack has a built in browser with reader mode. You can also configure it to open all links in your default browser. It will also allow you to bookmark (and schedule for later) links, posts, comments. In the future, it will allow users to curate their own feed and share it with others. For example; you can create a feed that has posts from specific channels on YouTube, subbreddits on Reddit and people on Twitter.

To be honest, this would've been much better as a web app/chrome extension.

Re: Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

#140
Super cool, but why would you limit yourself to mac users even in alpha? Oh well.

Anyway, we need more of this sort of thing. Most social websites only have value as endpoints and relying on their own UI is just a vertical trap. CSS and designers have done huge damage to the web; a lot of the blame lies with marketing departments.

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