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Re: Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

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Post by bonzoq »

eligundry wrote: post #10

Loving it so far! Great job. One small request, though. It'd be awesome to collapse comment threads. Any chance of that happening? Edit: Nevermind. You have the comments setup so you only see the top level and have to tap to see the child comments. Don't think I've seen that before but I dig it.

Thanks for you feedback! I'm glad you like the app.

I thought comments presented this way would be easier to read, because if child comments are indented than it's basically a waste of screen-space on a mobile device.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

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Post by bonzoq »

owly wrote: post #12

The large font and design is nice but i prefer HakkaNews for being able to comment and change feeds from Top to New etc. Add the swipe right sidebar with those features and youve got a winner!

Once those feature become available in the API, I'll definitely add them. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

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Post by vbezhenar »

cdbattags wrote: post #8

No Swift? Wah

Currently Swift is a questionable choice. It adds around 5 MB size to the application archive, XCode support is buggy and standard library lacks many things it should have. I built custom keyboard with Swift and I won't use it for my next projects in the near future, until it'll become more stable. But probably in year or two it'll become much better.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

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Post by smackfu »

A few thoughts:

When on the comments page, I'd expect tapping the title to take me to the article, but it doesn't.

The child comment touch target is all the way to the far right, which is at the edge of the touch region on the new larger phones. Feels a bit awkward. Maybe make the entire comment the touch target for that?

Not a fan of the big black back arrow. I know it goes away, but as you scroll, it is right where you want to start reading, and feels a bit distracting. Maybe just tone it down a bit?

There's a little bit of stuttering as you scroll, which is surprising for a text list. I'm guessing it's a bug rather than actual performance issues.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News iOS client using the new official API

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Post by bonzoq »

smackfu wrote: post #17

A few thoughts: When on the comments page, I'd expect tapping the title to take me to the article, but it doesn't. The child comment touch target is all the way to the far right, which is at the edge of the touch region on the new larger phones. Feels a bit awkward. Maybe make the entire comment the touch target for that? Not a fan of the big black back arrow. I know it goes away, but as you scroll, it is right where…

Thanks for your feedback.

I thought tapping the title and going to the article in the comments page could be counter-productive if one slightly missed the back arrow. I need to give it a thought again.

It's a good idea to make the entire comment tappable instead of just the small button. I haven't tested the app on a physical iPhone 6 yet.

I'm not sure about the arrow. It still takes up less space than the navigation bar and immediately goes away.

Main and comments views are basically a table view with UITextViews displaying attributed strings. I did my best to convert HTML to attributed string in no time, so I'm surprised by the stuttering as you scroll. It doesn't occur on my iPhone 5s. I need to investigate that.

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