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Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#61

it would be nice to have a light mode option since this is unusable for me otherwise

it follows your browser/device preference, but noted that a manual override would be a useful setting!

shipped! look for a sun/moon icon near the tale.fyi title at the top

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#62
Another small PWA-specific thing is the theme colour. I think you are only listening to `prefers-color-scheme`, so when the user manually switches between dark/light mode, there's a mismatch between the OS' status bar and the app's UI.

The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set manually its `content` attribute to your desirable colour.

The theme colour you declare in the manifest and `` of the html index is more of a fallback than anything.

I'm sure you'd figure it out, but let me know if you need something more detail; I would be happy to help.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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post #62

Another small PWA-specific thing is the theme colour. I think you are only listening to `prefers-color-scheme`, so when the user manually switches between dark/light mode, there's a mismatch between the OS' status bar and the app's UI. The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set…

i think i fixed it? let me know

i love that you're using the PWA... i love PWAs, so i added fun stuff like offline support, but i wasn't sure if anyone would find it

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#64
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could the problem be Moby Dick ’s infamously large vocabulary, which contains words used essentially nowhere else?

i actually had an out-of-memory bug, which i've since fixed. chewing through it now to see if we can get it

got it working! https://tale.fyi/moby-dick

it got confused by some of the more uhh complex passages ;-)

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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post #62

Another small PWA-specific thing is the theme colour. I think you are only listening to `prefers-color-scheme`, so when the user manually switches between dark/light mode, there's a mismatch between the OS' status bar and the app's UI. The solution to sync this correctly (or at least, the best one I have found so far) is to watch to the theme state change of the app, then query for `meta[name='theme-color']`, and set…

i think i fixed it? let me know i love that you're using the PWA... i love PWAs, so i added fun stuff like offline support, but i wasn't sure if anyone would find it

Can confirm it has been fixed.

I, too, love PWAs to death and has pretty much dedicated my entire programming life (outside of work) to them. I had a good chuckle when I even saw the screenshots you setup for the installation prompt. Thanks for being part of the crusade :D

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#66

i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org/ ), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard) but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org , i've been spending the last few days fryi…

Really nice, listened to a bit of Dracula and didn't expect to be so hooked :)

Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles:

- scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to click into a paragraph/sentence to continue reading from there.

Again, well done! I love these kinds of projects.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either.

Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.

Yeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list.

From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :)

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.

Yeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list. From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :)

Give https://storywatch.org a try...I am trying to recreate some of the old school web fiction link rings.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#69
post #4

This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!) The format is nice, I love standard ebooks I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my…

just did the explicit 'read from here' line, to set the watermark precisely (it also controls where the play button starts from)

check it out! let me know what you think

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

#70

i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org/ ), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard) but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org , i've been spending the last few days fryi…

Really nice, listened to a bit of Dracula and didn't expect to be so hooked :) Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles: - scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to c…

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