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Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Thanks a lot georgerobinson! We are really really happy that we are able to make your HN experience an awesome one - I can assure you that the PRO version definitely has more to come :)

We will look into the font changing, it will be on our list.

Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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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 smal…

There is a cool little stuff when you login into hn, it has 1password support.

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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I like the app: the UI is amazing! I hope to see some technical posts about Swift on the Snappymob blog.

I have a small suggestion. I think the homepage copy would work better if you edited some of the clichés: "Make the app your own" and "Let Your Voice Be Heard" could be improved, for example.

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com , I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best' page, and an option to have readability mode on by default. Very promising though, out of interest how long have you spent on the project?

I also use hn.premii.com and the only thing I miss is the ability to see the new comments since last visit marked (which the HN enhancements suite does on my laptop). I'd switch my laptop browsing interface to hn.premii.com as well if it supported this.

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How do you reply to comments? When I do it, (by tapping) I see various options, including "collapse to root". The swiping thing mentioned by one of my sibling comments was new to me, though. Handy.

You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you reply to comments? When I do it, (by tapping) I see various options, including "collapse to root". The swiping thing mentioned by one of my sibling comments was new to me, though. Handy.

You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like. [0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1

From my profile -> comments page, yes, and that's a regression -- it used to include a link back to the post's full comments feed.

But from the full comment feed for a post, I have options for upvote, reply, profile, and collapse to root.

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like. [0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1

From my profile -> comments page, yes, and that's a regression -- it used to include a link back to the post's full comments feed. But from the full comment feed for a post, I have options for upvote, reply, profile, and collapse to root.

Gotchya. I was tapping the root comment, and not a child comment. I'm surprised there isn't a "collapse" button when tapping the root comment.

Usually I don't reply or comment to HN on my phone, which is probably why I hadn't seen it before.

Re: Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree with you that we've trained users to expect UITableView Cells to be swipeable, yet I'd argue that the comments on MiniHack don't fit into a "standard" UI for cells (they don't look like a table view cell from Mail and Reeder, especially since a cell can take up more than a screen of height).

As such, I wouldn't expect my users to know to swipe them. I do agree that a help pane would do the trick, but personally I would probably lean towards an AlienBlue type of indication that the "cell" is actionable (the triangle showing Compressed or Uncompressed, and a row of icons that appears when you tap the cell, instead of the popup from the bottom).

That said, a JazzHands[0] type tutorial would serve perfectly fine too!

[0] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands

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