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Re: Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

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Post by swalkergibson »

falling wrote: post #40

Incredible the cottage industry of HN clients that sprouted just because the website is stuck in 1998. Goes to show how the community is so important it can trump design.

Good design does not necessarily correlate to fancy javascript animations and cascading whatevers. In my opinion, good design is supposed to facilitate the use of the tool, period. What additional design could be applied to http://news.ycombinator.com that would make the user experience better while keeping in mind the objective of popularizing the highest voted stories and fostering the community through comments on stories?

Re: Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

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Post by clarky07 »

d0mine wrote: post #55
clarky07 wrote: post #24

Just bought this and I'm not seeing any way to leave a comment. Am I missing something? The discussions in the comments are the most important part of Hacker News IMO.

There is news:yc that supports comments http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8&...

Decided to spend the last few hours making my own :-)

Now to decide if I should clean it up and go ahead and put it on the store. Does everything I need though and I solved my boredom problem this afternoon so it was a good day.

Re: Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

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Post by jarek »

falling wrote: post #49
gxs wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To you it's a negative, to me it's an absolute positive. I can load HN from any device and can pretty much count on it loading quickly and rendering correctly. If you have an iPhone, I can see why you would want an app, however. I don't see how people browse comfortably on that device without word wrap. On a related note, I wish the Android browser had a feature to override HTML tags that prevent you from zooming in…

Apps and zooming and reflowing text are just workarounds. I don’t want an app, I want a decent website that can render on a smaller screen. Not hard.

But HN renders just fine on my Nexus One in Opera...?

Re: Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

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Post by falling »

swalkergibson wrote: post #61
falling wrote: post #40

Incredible the cottage industry of HN clients that sprouted just because the website is stuck in 1998. Goes to show how the community is so important it can trump design.

Good design does not necessarily correlate to fancy javascript animations and cascading whatevers. In my opinion, good design is supposed to facilitate the use of the tool, period. What additional design could be applied to http://news.ycombinator.com that would make the user experience better while keeping in mind the objective of popularizing the highest voted stories and fostering the community through comments on…

I do not want animations. As you said, design is how something works. I want a readable font. I want modern HTML that adapts to different devices and screens. I want links that don’t expire after I left the page open for half an hour and then fail with stupid errors. I want a website that doesn’t randomly stalls for ten seconds. This is basically just what all these clients do.

All these 3rd party clients are brittle hacks that scrape the HTML because there is no API or RSS feed. This is bad design, not the lack of animations.

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