It would be sufficient if HN finally added responsive CSS. Grant me access and I do it for you.
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#62Congrats, seems to work pretty well. I can tell you why I won't be switching away from Minihack [1], though. First, apparently there is no collapsing support. Secondly, and more importantly, that default font. Not a fan. It's super thin, tiny, and you can't adjust the text size. Apparently there are "pro" themes, but you force the user to buy without giving a preview of what you'll be getting. Thirdly, no night mode;…
To be honest, I didn't know you could collapse comments. Since there's not a way to "discover" it in the UI, I figured that it didn't exist. While I'm not sure of the implementation, I think it would be a benefit to the end users to show off that feature better in the UI.
To be fair, swiping is fairly common in iOS apps. Mail and Reeder come to mind. When I try out a new app I usually test to see if UI elements support gestures like these.
Showing some kind of button defeats the utility somewhat, and I think a help pane explaining available gestures would be a better solution. You could stick it in the preferences view.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried Minihack? It has all of those features (including Instapaper "readability" integration). I used the Patel app for a long time, too, but it is not as good.
No I haven't because it is $3 and I don't want to spend "so much money" for an app, I might not end up using (just like all the other 1000 Hacker News apps that are out there). I might give it a shot, though, if you say it's worth the money.
IMHO it's the best HN client right now. It has some minor UI awkwardness (specifically, how you switch between the main UI and the "web view"), but nothing terrible. With things like thread collapsing and read tracking, it's definitely better than HN in a browser.
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#64Sold. iOS dev myself, and I love the interactions. Commenting with the app now.
First feature request: enable readability by default in settings.
Cheers!
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#65Sold. iOS dev myself, and I love the interactions. Commenting with the app now. First feature request: enable readability by default in settings. Cheers!
Also, weird side note: when enabling readability on this post, you get an error.
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#66This is really beautiful - you should be proud of your work!
Feature request: please let me make the font smaller (and perhaps change the typeface?).
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, thanks! As of the reading mode (that was the word I was looking for), Yes, I have heard about it. I use it when I load a webpage in Safari. Still, it is only available when the page finished loading. When I'm riding the train I have edge internet + heigh latency and package loss, loading a JS library (that almost every webpage has), is close to impossible. It takes ages and almost always times out. Since most of…
You should be able to enter reading mode before the page finishes (or even starts, for that matter) loading. We use the readability ( https://www.readability.com/ ) API, which does all scraping/parsing server-side.
Sorry, I didn't read the parent comment thoroughly enough. I though you meant the reading mode in safari.
Then, I suppose my third point is invalid :) Thank you very much :)
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#68Congrats, seems to work pretty well. I can tell you why I won't be switching away from Minihack [1], though. First, apparently there is no collapsing support. Secondly, and more importantly, that default font. Not a fan. It's super thin, tiny, and you can't adjust the text size. Apparently there are "pro" themes, but you force the user to buy without giving a preview of what you'll be getting. Thirdly, no night mode;…
as someone who knows nothing about apps, how can someone make an app for hn and charge for the app? does hn get a cut of that?
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#70Question: how do you get to a list of your comments / submissions?