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Sadly recently HackerNode's comment section broke and none of the ASK HN type posts render any more. So I guess what I'm saying is, I'll give it a go :-)
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?
Nice app. Personally, I am pretty happy with yohackernews for mobile. One thing I'd like to know more about though is Akepa's icon / logo. It's very cool. I would love to read about your design process & ideation.
I will see if I can do some write ups on the design process for the app, which can be interesting (or boring) I think.
But hey, thanks again!
Question: how do you get to a list of your comments / submissions?
I have used HackerNode for the longest time. It has some weird UI elements but for some reason I like the way it uses the screen space, all the other seem to involve a lot of scrolling (more than I personally want) Sadly recently HackerNode's comment section broke and none of the ASK HN type posts render any more. So I guess what I'm saying is, I'll give it a go :-)
Congrats, 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;…
Agreed. I'd pay for pro if one of the themes was "larger font size, higher contrast."
As for higher contrast theme, one of the theme in Pro version (the Robin) is specifically made for that people who prefer high contrast reading experience.
Congrats, 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.
The swiping thing mentioned by one of my sibling comments was new to me, though. Handy.
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 :)