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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

#101

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goodpoint wrote: post #84
smallerfish wrote: post #70

Can you please avoid blurring the prior column (or at least the comment you came from)? It's useful to see context that way. Otherwise I think it's really good. Reddit should have aspired to something this well thought out. (I'd also like page up / page down.)

Good point. On a large screen most of the space is wasted: a blurred column on the left and empty space on the right. This accounts for 2/3 of the of the space. Please use all of it :)

At some point during development you could actually see all the columns clearly and most of the screen space was used but it was very disorienting, at least for me. That's why I removed it. But I guess some people think differently, so maybe I'm gonna add an option for that.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#102

Post by pwdisswordfish8 »

throwoutway wrote: post #77

Bookmarked. I hope you continue working on it! The biggest hurdle for me would be to remember to go here instead of news.ycombinator.com though

In your HN profile settings, change the top bar color (to something jarring/habit-breaking), as a reminder the next time you land here instead of there.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by specialist »

Hot damn. Haxplore is cool.

This is kinda how I imagine all my clients should work. HN, feedly & NetNewsWire, Overcast & Podcast.app, Music.app.

It's like a synthesis of file explorers and media consumption.

Bravo.

(I've got a bunch of other UX notions for power users.)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#106

Post by umvi »

This was surprisingly pleasant to use. Such intuitive controls and sane default behaviors. Usually HN clones are a dime a dozen, but this one is a cut above for sure.

The only thing keeping me from using this full time is the information density. On normal HN I see the top 30 links all at once. On this one I only see the top 11 links before I have to scroll. I think a "high info density mode" where I could see the top 30 links (or more) would be nice.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#107

Post by pabue »

cvs268 wrote: post #78

Nice App. I was trying to create some web-UI like this to read my own dump of bookmarks/notes on various devices. What language/frameworks did you use for the web UI? Is the source available somewhere gitlab/github?

Thank you.

I'm using Vue 2 and Javascript, because I actually started this project a while ago. I will probably upgrade it to Vue 3 and Typescript soon. FOr the styling I'm using Tailwindcss.

It's currently not open source but it will be as soon as I fix up some of the mess. It went though quite a lot of changes and that's very visible in the code ;)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#108

Post by NoGravitas »

nbzso wrote: post #79

Nice. I use vimium-firefox as a default and it is not working. Focusing on one comment at the time is changing the adequate contextual dynamic of relational scanning. All of this only highlights the problem with HN interface. It is time for slight update addressing some basics. - font size - monochromatic theme - dark mode * aside from this "Do not touch anything":) P.S. As a default workaround for HN design issues I…

With vimium, you probably need to use 'insert mode' with this site.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#109

Post by pabue »

bovermyer wrote: post #61

I adore this except for one thing - the infinite scroll. If you added paging, it'd be perfect.

Thank you.

Paging is something I actually wanted to add at the beginning but then I tought it wouldn't be necessary for an experiment like that. I'm also not quite sure how it would look or work ui wise.

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