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Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by avalaunch »

weinzierl wrote: post #58
nnain wrote: 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.

MiniHack is my favorite. Works great.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by nnain »

weinzierl wrote: post #58
nnain wrote: 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.

The official news.ycombinator.com. I prefer to post from the computer anyway. MiniHack mentioned in the other comment looks good, though it's only on iOS.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by thekingshorses »

nnain wrote: 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.

Try http://hn.premii.com/ or download ios/android client http://hn.premii.com/about/

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by neilellis »

nnain wrote: 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.

Like it, really needs up vote buttons.

Also the message that someone has up voted X is quite annoying, I’d suggest making that a lot more subtle. Maybe convert it into a subtle animation effect on the circle badge - maybe a short subtle glow.

Keep animations subtle - dial everything down a notch or two.

Keep up the good work though - I like what you’ve done so far.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by thekingshorses »

alexggordon wrote: post #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…

There is no API to login/comment.

I have web client http://hn.premii.com/ that uses new APIs (No login).

iOS client https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 where you can login and upvote.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by ZenoArrow »

dmd wrote: post #51
marknutter wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Me too. I can't stand unnecessary whitespace, the current size of HN is readable enough as it is on the desktop, the condensed content is a feature, all HN really needs (IMO) is a better theme for mobile and collapsible comment threads.

Re: Show HN: New Hacker News web client

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Post by q2 »

Please add an option/extension so that downvoters provide reasons for their downvoting. It helps to understand the other view points or reasons for disagreement rather than just downvoting, which appears rude/insensitive, and may be for ideological/racial reasons(which we never know).

Upvoting without reason may be ok, in that case at least we know that upvoter is in the same/similar logical region as we are. Downvotes may indicate differences of opinion but do not indicate what/why are those differences. So reasons for downvoting clarifies those reasons and other view points, which I guess is the reason for "comments" in the first place.

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