This looks great! The animations are smooth, and the details seem to load fast. How about you try a specific subreddit?
Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
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Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There is no reason to disable scrolling even if the primary interactions are supposed to happen with keyboard. I don’t want to remember which websites allow scrolling and which don’t.
I'd say there is a point. With disabled scrolling you can guarantee that the "cursor" will always be on the screen. With scrolling enabled, you could out scroll the selection, making for worse UI experience. I'm also not a fan of blurring the previous article, but I guess they chose to do it to put focus on your current selection.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's an informative website. This is bad UX for an informative site. Sure it can support keyboard shortcuts for additional fast access. It will be better for power users. But disabling scrolling with mouse and touchpad is hostile and counter productive to the casual users who might be interested in the content.
It appears the whole point of this site is the keyboard navigation. If you don't like it, just use Hacker News.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's an informative website. This is bad UX for an informative site. Sure it can support keyboard shortcuts for additional fast access. It will be better for power users. But disabling scrolling with mouse and touchpad is hostile and counter productive to the casual users who might be interested in the content.
It is an implementation of HN that is for keyboard use - how is that hostile to people who want to use a mouse?
Use HN, or any of the 100's of clones/implementations that exist.
This whole "user hostile" thing is getting boring, not everything has to cater for everyone and their desires. This is a pet project being shown off for keyboard navigation - there is nothing "hostile" about that. At all.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#35Haxplore 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!
Thank you very much!
Got great feedback so far, so I'm definitely gonna work on it and try to improve the experience.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#36Haxplore 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.
This is intentional. You have to use your arrow keys, WASD or HJKL to navigate.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#37I'm surprised at how smooth this is and am really considering this as a replacement of the HN page for me.
The only thing I'd love to have added would be an inline mode, where replies to comments are also shown on the top level of the comment section, but indented, just like it's on YC's HN.
More things:
- Always show comments count
- Reloading a comment section should not bring you back to the front page (clear entire state).
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#38That is really cool!
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#39This 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 shortcu…
Re: Alt+H ; it's the same for Alt+O on Firefox.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#40Haxplore 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…
I like this!
I use a tiling WM, so I can have this open in a window (or scratchpad) that is shrunk to the width of your column, and just shoot over to it, and move around nice and easily!
Two things:
- alt + h doesn't open the Help for me, it opens the actual help menu in Firefox.
- It would be nice to mark the entries as 'read' and show if more comments have happened since reading
Edit: Wrapping it in a small Tauri app would be cool, then it gets rid of the bookmarks and stuff I have at the top :D