Hey, just thought I'd take a sec to thank you for making this free. We're faced with so many free apps nowadays that we forget all the work that goes into it to selflessly help the community.
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Thanks mate. Working on getting a update out that fixes that :) EDIT: Just rolled out a fix. You can check for Updates in the Application menu.
It's a simple "fix", but this is actually the (silly) default behaviour for Mac apps. After closing the window you can bring it back from the Window menu item > Main Window.
Ah, thanks!
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Why does it not support anything lower than Mountain Lion?
Uses the Sharing Service APIs that were introduced in ML. Ill work on some way to roll out a different version for =< 10.7 users.
You don’t need a separate version, you can check for available features at runtime:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/devel...
http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/09/building-for-earlier-os...
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#34Some small usability suggestions for your roadmap: - When resizing the window, make the left pane width fixed. - Limit the resizing of the split panel so neither panel ends up with zero width. - Use the share symbol that mountain lion uses instead of the word share. - Restore the window dimensions and position after reopening the app. - Highlight the current story selection in the list.
To extend the suggestion to use the share symbol, I would also suggest using icons for the flagging and voting buttons.
Thanks for the feedback, I just haven't had time to cook up icons yet :)
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#35Some small usability suggestions for your roadmap: - When resizing the window, make the left pane width fixed. - Limit the resizing of the split panel so neither panel ends up with zero width. - Use the share symbol that mountain lion uses instead of the word share. - Restore the window dimensions and position after reopening the app. - Highlight the current story selection in the list.
All of those are great suggestions. Ill add them to my TODO list.
Do you know if there is a standard share icon or do I have to create one myself? EDIT: looks like using NSShareTemplate does the trick.
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#36Readability style page cleanup would be a good feature.
Agreed. I've added that to the TODO list :)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uses the Sharing Service APIs that were introduced in ML. Ill work on some way to roll out a different version for =< 10.7 users.
You don’t need a separate version, you can check for available features at runtime: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/devel... http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/09/building-for-earlier-os...
Ill check that out :)
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#38Commenting from the app. Great so far!
Thanks :)
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#39I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :) EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS ( http://newsyc.me ) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
I really like the app so far. A few feature ideas - adding a preference to load the story or comments first. That might fit in a bit better with some people's workflows of looking at the comments first.
Also - I found myself wanting some "read/unread" feature of the story column. I'd love to know if I've already seen a story or not.
Keep up the good work. I assume you plan to sell this on the App Store?
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#40Is there a way for me to make it default to view the "Comments" tab of the story first (instead of trying to load the story from the source)?
I sometimes judge a story by its comments first.