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Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#91

Post by saurik »

alex_marchant wrote: post #90
thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

I serve some gzipped content off of S3, you just have to do the zip yourself before uploading, which is pretty straight forward using most scripting languages.

But then your content is going to require that support, returning gzip'd content with hard-coded headers even when not requested and unwelcome.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#93

Post by thekingshorses »

chakalakasp wrote: post #36

I may be suffering from dumb user syndrome, but is there a way to log in to reply to comments?

You are not dumb. Unfortunately I am not supporting login. I don't want to store users' login id and password and I am not sure the best way to do this without storing user's data.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#94

Post by thekingshorses »

nns wrote: post #39

This is really great (except for the Orange!). But love the interface. Kudos. My only gripe with all HN interfaces is that none of them can login and hence are read-only. You cant really comment on anything.

I have not implemented login/posting. I don't want to store users' login id and password and I am not sure the best way to do this without storing user's data.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by HCIdivision17 »

publicfig wrote: post #88
HCIdivision17 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Following your recommendation, I did the same, and I really enjoy it. The interface addresses many (all?) of my typical annoyances with the otherwise great news:yc app. * it swaps between comments and articles quickly * nice, unobtrusive indenting for threads * holy cow folding comments! * pleasant styling I haven't figured out how to comment, but I'more of a lurker, so that's fine (it'll keep me from making a fool o…

Actually, I could be wrong, but I think the load time is coming from the fact that the developer had to move the application over to S3 in order to deal with the heavy load with this being on the front page, and with S3 not supporting gzip, it's causing a bit of a delay. Once it's loaded, however, the app is very fast in switching between pages and comments.

I apologize, I actually only meant the initial startup. The speed of everything once it starts is fantastic!

I see this delay on forecast.io as well. It could very well simply be a latency issue.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#97

Post by serkanyersen »

thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

This is an excellent design and implementation. I'll be using this from now on :) I have one request though. when a comment is collapsed it should also collapse the child comments just like a tree. Maybe you can add reply, upvote, downvote support too. btw I would pay for this app. Thanks

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by tjohns »

Looks just as great on desktop as it does on mobile. Good job.

I really love this trend of having a scrolling ListView as a sidebar in web apps, similar to what many tablet apps are doing. The ones that come to mind: Gmail Offline, Quartz, Feedbin and Evernote (to an extent)

There was also a news aggregator site that was on HN a few weeks ago that did something similar. Sadly, I can't remember the URL for the life of me. Anyone remember it?

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by tjohns »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #13

Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

Ditto for Chrome/CrOS, please: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html

Also, please consider adding this to the Chrome Web Store so I can install it on my Chromebook. :)

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by bobfunk »

thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

Working on a product for dead-simple CDN backed hosting for static websites with performance optimizations built in, called BitBalloon (https://www.bitballoon.com).

Shoot me a note at mathias@bitballoon.com if you're interested in trying it out.

you can have the app online and a lot faster than on S3 in around 30 seconds :)

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