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Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

#51

In the words of Steve Jobs: "That is really ugly, and you're fired". It has that failed Web 3.0 look. More rounded corners, excessive margin, but less content per page. One commenter pointed out its easier on mobile, but that can be resolved with the existing style. Please, think of the children.

> but less content per page This is why engineers are not designers. Left up to engineers, every pixel would be crammed full of "content", all at 11px font.

This is exactly what I want, though.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

#52

Nice! The live update is sick! What would make me use this instead of news.ycombinator.com every day however would be: - the ability to hide stories you've already read (some box to tick like a todo list) or are not interested in. They take up so much space, so there is a lot of wasted space after 5 mins on the site and reading/seeing I'm not interested in the top stories. I don't want to click 'show more', I want ne…

> the ability to hide stories you've already read (some box to tick like a todo list) or are not interested in. They take up so much space, so there is a lot of wasted space after 5 mins on the site and reading/seeing I'm not interested in the top stories. I don't want to click 'show more', I want new headlines to replace old unwanted headlines

This is a feature I'd love in the current site as well

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

#53
Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on them.

As far as dealing with my taste in UI I use Hacker News Enhancement Suite[0] for computers and MiniHack for mobile[1](not affiliated). The primary reason I switched to MiniHack was I really wanted the ability to log in and comment. I spend a lot of time working on just an iPad (writing, etc.) and it's great to be able to comment as myself without any of this fancy browser stuff.

[0] https://github.com/etcet/HNES [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

#58
post #23

This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though. My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ . It's lean, fast and looks like a native app on the phone. I've added a shortcut to my mobile's home screen, using the 'Add to Home Screen' option in Chrome, which gives me a nice quick launch icon. The downside of both these clients is that you can't login or post using them.

What do you use for posting from mobile? I tried several apps, even a paid one. They either didn't offer login and posting or offered it but it didn't work.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

#60

Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on them. As far as dealing with my taste in UI I use Hacker News Enhancement Suite[0] for computers and MiniHack for mobile[1](not affiliated). The primary reason I switched to MiniHack was I really wanted the ability to log in and comment. I spend…

Very cool - just installed both.
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