This was all very cool up until I needed to create a Yack account. Yeah, nah.
Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
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#152What is your business model?
Hey, thanks for the question. Haven't really thought about monetization yet. Want to focus on building the best desktop experience for online communities. Would love to be able to focus on it full time at some point (would be a dream). Maybe will introduce some paid features in the future, but everything in this version will always stay free.
Ok. I will consider adopting this in my life.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can see this being a nice alternative to a few browser options for checking the latest across multiple site It's just another walled garden approach
Which is good coz most of these communities are time sucks so consciously having to open an app instead of just opening a new tab is great. Currently i use another browser for this(firefox is for browsing hackernews, chrome is for work since devtools are better)
> Currently i use another browser for this(firefox is for browsing hackernews, chrome is for work since devtools are better)
Have you tried Firefox Developer Mode? I find it to be lots better, especially if you are using grid or flexbox.
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#154I would suggest optimizing the images, or lazy loading them. I have relatively fast internet but the images were taking a while to load.
I'd also suggest using JPEG 2000 or WebP images, as they can be faster to load.
Considering this is shared here, I am willing to wait but usually I would click out if the images are taking too long to load especially considering that images provide major info in terms of whether I want to use this or not.
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#155Feedback: I jumped at this headline because HN, YouTube and Reddit are the main social media sources I consume now. I left the front page because I tend to browse these more on my phone or iPad. I do browse Reddit on my computer more than on iOS, but only because the Reddit mobile webpage is so terrible. Wish youR Mac app blows up and you make an iOS app one day.
> I do browse Reddit on my computer more than on iOS, but only because the Reddit mobile webpage is so terrible.
Have your tried Apollo[0]? It's a much better Reddit experience on iPad or iPhone than their official options, whether it's the website or their app.
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#156It 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…
My reaction is pretty much the opposite. This looks like what I've wanted the web to be for years now. It's the best parts of RSS, Gopher, and the web. What's terrible about the modern web? Mountains of JavaScript, for trackers, and advertisements, and custom UI so every page acts differently (and slowly) even though they're 99% the same. This appears to cut through that crap, and just give me easy access to articles…
We need a web anti-browser, which only has a "reader mode"
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#157>Yack! is a native desktop app
smh
Another electron wrapper for some website.
Wow! Very cool. (No)
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Nah, no comments.
You get the title which is a link to the submission, a picture and a link to the comments. I'm on Android so hitting either opens a webview (powered by Firefox) with an X in the top left which leads back to feedly. I also have scrolling past a submission set to mark it as read.
Admittedly something which handled unread comments and notifications for replies could be more engaging, but I feel like I get enough HN as it is and I want to remain somewhat productive.
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#159I just tried it and i agree with some of the comments here, not as fast or smooth as a native app should be. Now, as far as I understand HN only has a readonly API but reddit can be made completely native. Apollo for ios is the best example there.
Personally, i am tired of electron or the mix of electron and native apps that end up using more and more electron code as they grow.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a mix of Electron & native code (Swift). I have done so many optimizations to make it lightweight, smooth and fast. If you have an older Mac, try it on it and see how fast it is. I use Apple Mail app for my emails and for my benchmarks so far, Yack works faster and smoother than Apple Mail. Give it a try and don't forget to report back here :)
Sweet, great work. Does it work on an ipad3?
Does anything still work on an iPad 3? I would have thought a lot of newer apps target iOS 10 or higher by now.