It looks good. I'll download it when I'm home later. This could all be solved with about 50-100 lines inside a media query though... Come on HN!
Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
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Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#42Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause I didn't like the UI on other HN readers. In that vein, I probably didn't add some stuff that people would like in a HN client, so I want your opinions on what to include/remove/improve in v1.1 - don't hold back. I personally couldn't stand the design on the other similar apps and I want people to enjoy reading HN on their iPhones/iPods. And yes, there's an iPad ve…
> Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause > I didn't like the UI on other HN readers I was thinking about creating HN reader myself for exactly the same reason. Tried out about 10 different readers was not satisfied with either of them (sorry, that includes this app too :( ). However there is an web app which gets UI right: http://hackerwebapp.com — and that's what I am using. And if I ever will do my ow…
This looks awesome, just wish I can log in and post comments using it.
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#43I like HackerNode more because: 1. It contains more columns than only "FrontPage", such as "Jobs" and "Comments"; 2. The UI seems more concise. Although there are not indent between comments, the text is much clearer. However, neither of these apps can be used to add comments. So I can only come back to my computer and add this comment on the web page.
Hacker Node is really awful to use, though. Half the stories go to 404s, because it percent-encodes hashes and actually sends them to the server, and trying to select a story involves poking around on the screen until you finally hit the right (tiny) part of the title.
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#44Why I like this so far: - It's the closest Alien Blue:Reddit that I've seen for HN - Opening web pages within the app is much more comfortable than the standard way of doing so, which is terrible in my opinion Great work!
I'd lie if I said I wasn't inspired by Alien Blue, it's by far my favorite and most-used app on my iPhone. Thanks for the kind words!
The only thing that threw me off was the loading of web pages. There does not seem to be anything to let the user know that the web page is loading. Granted, most of the users of this app (being HN regulars) would probably assume that a page is loading, but if I didn't notice it the first time around, then maybe others did not either. An activity indicator may help in this situation. Also, the minus sign (left of "Go to Comments") makes me feel that the view should minimize upon click, which would cause the horizontal minus sign to rotate to become vertical. I can elaborate on any of these thoughts if they don't make enough sense.
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, try removing from working memory (don't delete the app!) and reopening to see if that fixes it. May be having a hard time loading the site.
Since the API you're using is hosted on App Engine, it won't be accessible from China. App Engine is blocked by the Great Firewall.
thanks for the heads up. this explains a lot!
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since the API you're using is hosted on App Engine, it won't be accessible from China. App Engine is blocked by the Great Firewall.
Damn, thanks for the heads up.
lots of HN readers in China -- would be great to be able to use this! looks nice and headed in the right direction.
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#47Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause I didn't like the UI on other HN readers. In that vein, I probably didn't add some stuff that people would like in a HN client, so I want your opinions on what to include/remove/improve in v1.1 - don't hold back. I personally couldn't stand the design on the other similar apps and I want people to enjoy reading HN on their iPhones/iPods. And yes, there's an iPad ve…
> Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause > I didn't like the UI on other HN readers I was thinking about creating HN reader myself for exactly the same reason. Tried out about 10 different readers was not satisfied with either of them (sorry, that includes this app too :( ). However there is an web app which gets UI right: http://hackerwebapp.com — and that's what I am using. And if I ever will do my ow…
Seriously, I really hope that some iOS devs would steal the UI from it too :)
Re: Show HN: News/YC - HN Reader for iOS
#48There was a Hacker News reader for iOS and then it stopped loading news and gave errors. So I found one called Hacker Node that worked better. Which one of this, I don't see a link to the App Store just an image.
Clickable link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?ls=1&...
Good but there is no option to share the links like Hacker Node offers. I like to email links to myself to look over later on so I can focus on them more.