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Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#11

Post by egeozcan »

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

Please work on this more, this is just such a pleasant interface! On the other hand, the criticism here in HN is also mostly correct. It should be more accessible, but definitely a great start!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by user207 »

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

brilliant work, please do twitter next

very addicting

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by egeozcan »

stavros wrote: post #6
pabue wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. And yeah it does not really work on mobile, but to be fair it's not supposed to. I only spend a few minutes on it to make it somewhat useable. As far as I know here are many other HN clones that improve the mobile experience, so I focused solely on building something cool for desktop/keyboard users.

Deciding that it's not meant for mobile is a perfectly acceptable position to take, in my opinion.

Yes! To the UI developers: Please don't let optimizing for a single platform become a lost art. Not saying cross-platform should not be done or anything like that, but using an application that's 100% tailored to my device is nice to experience, from time to time.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by snsr »

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

The web page doesn’t scroll.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by capableweb »

soheil wrote: post #7

Why are you blurring the previous row? Why are you disabling scrolling? These are hostile to the user.

Scrolling is disabled because this is not a website for mouse control, it's explicitly made for keyboards. You can notice this by the application not having any mouse controls at all, no links and so on. It's not user hostile if the goal is keyboard controls.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by kuu »

First of all, congratulations on shipping it! It's pretty cool.

Some feelings I had while using it, just in case it's useful to you:

- To me is a bit strange than when I'm focused on comments, by pressing Enter it opens the URL of the article (that it's not my focus right now).

- Also I would like to add comments, but I think in this version is still not possible.

- As others mention, it wouldn't hurt that those actions can be both done by mouse and keys (or maybe the title of the submission should be "HN with keyboard")

I like the colors and the blur effect, nice touch :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pramodbiligiri »

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments.

- Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story?

- On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on.

- Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcut key to "?" instead? GMail, Github etc use "?".

- The green background for the comment text is a bit too dark.

- Is it just me or is the comment text not showing paragraph breaks?

- The zoom in transition when the comment text modal shows up just slows things down. If I'm going to load many comments in that view I'd rather it load instantly. Also, what's the purpose of this modal? There's a "Space -> Read" for the comment that I'm already reading. I don't get it.

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