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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

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Post by deaddodo »

Shared404 wrote: post #81
exikyut wrote: post #43

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I was just thinking about this myself. It would be so awesome to add something like OAuth2! But then I realized, this would break the subtle cohesion of the current model. Everyone has to specifically come back to news.yc to comment. Everyone has to use the HN design. I do wonder if this is intentional, or at least strategic - because the current approach enforces a certain perspective when commenting that * perhaps…

I've thought the same thing. Looking at reddit, whenever someone complains about degredation of discussion, somebody pops up and says "just use old.reddit.com". However, everyone else is still on new reddit, so even if you increase the quality of your submissions, the overall quality still drops.

I would use the new reddit interface specifically if they re-enabled the old comment experience. The current one is terrible.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by asdff »

I can't open comments on firefox. hitting O does nothing. Opening new links also opens them in a popup window rather than a new tab, so firefox blocks those by default too.

Overall its nice to use a keyboard but the information density is so poor and the site isn't as performant as news.ycombinator.com so I won't be making a switch, and I can't comment on how it renders comments since it doesn't open comment sections in firefox at least.

I've been on the hunt for a HN TUI client or some other way to make threads play nicely with a text based browser. That would really help with my newsboat based internet consumption if I didn't have to open a browser to read comment threads. I have gotten close, but with all the text based browsers I've tried, they all don't indent comments correctly in threads which makes it not very useful.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by asdff »

shpongled wrote: post #173

I love it. I would kill for one for reddit too.

rtv is an old standard tool that behaves similarly imo. I don't think its under active development anymore but it still works (i'm sure theres a fork or a similar reddit cli under active development these days)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by mrmattyboy »

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…

This is awesome!! :)

One tiny thing (though everyone's tiny suggestions sure add up :D ) (aside from the alt-h not working in firefox)...

It would be awesome if hitting space or something on a selected post would open it in a iframe (or panel) in the middle of the screen.

Then be able to up-arrow/down-array (or PGUP/PGDOWN) through the page and escape out of it.

This would mean you can quickly skim an article without leaving the app!

But, well done, it's absolutely wicked :D

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by yurishimo »

ghengeveld wrote: post #163
pabue wrote: post #143

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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…

If you switch to ? keep in mind that some keyboard layouts (e.g. Hungarian) require a modifier key to type this character.

It requires one for a US layout too (shift) if you match on the actual `?` character and not `/`
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