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Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Post by taylorling »

spiffyman wrote: post #10

Looks great. One thing I loved about HackerNode was the fact that I could send an article to Chrome. (Maybe I'm blind, but I can't figure out how to add Chrome to the iOS 8 activities sheet.) The in-app browser is nice, but this is an important feature for history-diving purposes. I'm sure lots of your target market don't use Safari on the desktop. Any plans to support it?

Nah, you are not blind, I can't figure that out either. we will put the suggested feature (share to chrome) in the list, if it's not too tricky, likely it will be there in the next version since it's something affecting the HN consumption experience :)

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Post by jordanlev »

Love it, nice work!

Feature request: be able to collapse comment threads (on the AlienBlue reddit app it's swipe left to collapse, swipe right to re-expand, but any mechanism would be greatly appreciated).

Another very minor (and AlienBlue-inspired) request: since you can swipe left from a comment page to go back to the article, it would make sense to be able to swipe right to navigate from the article over to the comment thread.

Thanks for putting this fantastic app out there, best of luck!

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Post by weinzierl »

It's great to see another app for HN that allows posting.

I used to use Hacker News (YC) by Dharmesh Patel and was very happy with it but it is read only. I tried news:yc which claims to support posting but that never worked. I submitted a bug report but never heard back.

I use MiniHack by Cai GuangShao for reading, voting and posting now. It works really well and I'm very happy with it. A while ago I reported a small bug and it was fixed immediately.

What can I do with Akepa that I can't do with MiniHack? Why should I switch?

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Post by SG- »

allending wrote: post #2

Maker here. Just a fun note. One of the hardest parts about making the app was getting enough karma so we could test downvoting.

I'm hoping you didn't wait 2064 days to test the client :( Is this your first app? When did you settle on it and Swift? Are you using any Swift frameworks?

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Post by ohitsdom »

jordanlev wrote: post #23

Love it, nice work! Feature request: be able to collapse comment threads (on the AlienBlue reddit app it's swipe left to collapse, swipe right to re-expand, but any mechanism would be greatly appreciated). Another very minor (and AlienBlue-inspired) request: since you can swipe left from a comment page to go back to the article, it would make sense to be able to swipe right to navigate from the article over to the co…

I would absolutely pay for collapsible comment threads. I hate comment systems that don't allow it, and it's one of the reasons I love Disqus. While we're requesting features, can HN add this to the site?
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