Is there a specific library or package folks use to enable hotkeys on a page, or is it commonly done via vanilla JS?
Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
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#152This is design. It's great, works well and does exactly what you'd want it to.
The one issue I see (as others have mentioned) is that it's difficult to orient yourself because the app only allows focusing on one thing at a time.
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#153Haxplore 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…
Reading this post on Haxplore itself is even better :)
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Thank you for liking it :D 1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this. 2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "mark as read" part to happen automatically or manually? 2.2 Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. Wrapping it in a Tauri might be cool, because I actually wanted…
It would be neat if there was an option (maybe for the future, a simple settings modal) to either mark as read once 'opened' or a hot key to mark as read (or toggle?). Kinda like email clients lists.
I use live bookmarks in Firefox, so I have a tick next to the items I have looked at, just something like that, or some sort of visual indication.
The comment count thing was more a thing I like on other sites, so like on ArsTech I can see if there are more comments from where I last read (which is handy to go and see if there are more cool discussions going on) but yea maybe would hammer the API a bit too much - unless limited to just 'new 'or 'ask' or something
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#155I love the keyboard navigation.
Speaking of, on FF when I go to the Hacker News home page and I tab navigate, the only thing it can tab to is the search input at the bottom. Does anyone else have issues or is it just me?
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#156Phenomenal idea! Really great approach to forum UX. I sincerely hope you keep working on this, I'd love to see how it evolves.
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#157Nice work. Minor issue, but when I open the Menu with M, the focus should be in the dropdown menu, so I can navigate it with the arrow up and down. Otherwise, works great!
Thanks! You're right, that part is a bit weird. I added that in the last moment and didn't really spend much time on making in good.
A couple of more ideas:
* Some way to go to the top of the page without refreshing the page.
* Some way to load new posts asynchronously without refreshing the page.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
#158Haxplore 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…
Would love to see a PWA from this, as most I've found are basically ugly.
Congrats for the work done.
PS : Please use another color scheme or put a dark mode somehow, my wife will kill me if I open the app at night.
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#159Like it! Some suggestions to consider: - I'm missing a "jump back up" shortcut, something I'd recommend using capital "G" for, like in Vim. - It seems it hits some hardcoded limit for paging? i.e. it does not allow me to open more stories once I reach the "bottom" one. - Two things I'm used to that exist in the Android app I'm using: * stories are numbered, so I see how far from the top I am. It's a dimmed down grey…
Agreed on android: materialistic?
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#160Being unable to see the whole (sub-)tree while reading the comments is a major disadvantage for me so far. If you read a thread that goes like a dialog with each new reply being nested under the previous one, this web app requires a key press to see each new reply — you never see them simultaneously.
But this app is an interesting take. I'm also not happy with unnecessarily mouse-driven interfaces