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Re: Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

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Post by johnsonjo »

midasz wrote: post #27
jazzypants wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you read it on your phone? This website's (lack of a) mobile design makes it really hard to read. If I don't use my mobile app of choice (Harmonic), I have to zoom in really close and scroll all over the place. It's really annoying. The font is way too small, and it's hard-coded.

This looks fine to me? In long threads it gets a bit hard to follow, only thing I'm missing is a jump to next root comment. https://i.imgur.com/8e1Syyf.jpeg

> only thing I'm missing is a jump to next root comment

That's a two step process currently when you are just going through the comments you click "root" on any sub-root-comment and then "next" on the root comment. Next will always take you to the next sibling comment (called a sibling, because it's a tree data-structure basically and sibling comes from a family tree. In fact where I said sub-root-comment I could have said descendants or children.)

EDIT: I just realized that the first child of the root doesn't have the "root" button so you have to click "parent" on it and then "next".

Re: Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

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Post by atombender »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #3

This is the first HN app that immediately clicks for me. Would absolutely love it if the text could be made bigger (both for reading and commenting)! By the way, this reply was posted using the HackerNows app itself :-)

You might like HACK [1], then. It has a large set of options (maybe too many!) to change fonts, styles, colors, and spacing. It's probably the most extensive HN client for iOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

Re: Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

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Post by atombender »

Always interesting to see new HN apps, and this one seems OK.

Personally I prefer HACK [1], which is probably the most extensive HN client for iOS. The amount of options for controlling the look of the app means you can influence the reading experience quite a bit, which isn't true for this new app.

My biggest complaint with HACK is search. Instead of a real UI, it uses its own kludgy search syntax to control what to filter. For example, "foo #stories" filters stories only.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

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