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Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

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Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#31
Looks pretty good! Initial complaints:

- Text is way too small. Needs to be configurable.

- Not sure I like this font as a body text font, either. Can you make this an option?

- To get from the article view to the comments requires two clicks. Should only be one click.

- Byline text is hard to read, needs more contrast.

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#32

Looks pretty good! Initial complaints: - Text is way too small. Needs to be configurable. - Not sure I like this font as a body text font, either. Can you make this an option? - To get from the article view to the comments requires two clicks. Should only be one click. - Byline text is hard to read, needs more contrast.

Thanks for your feedback. We are including some of this in our next version. So stay tuned!

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#33

This app is great! I love the design, I just have a few little problems: - Comments don't appear to be nested beyond the first level - Clicking on the sign up page brought me to HN's site, but it didn't bring me to their sign up page - In the comments view, the back button at the top left appeared to be informative text instead of a back button to me... What if you added an arrow before the text (" But I love the way…

Thanks for that. I will take a look on commenting and include the back button icon too.

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#35

Looks pretty good! Initial complaints: - Text is way too small. Needs to be configurable. - Not sure I like this font as a body text font, either. Can you make this an option? - To get from the article view to the comments requires two clicks. Should only be one click. - Byline text is hard to read, needs more contrast.

Thanks for your feedback. We are including some of this in our next version. So stay tuned!

Cool. Forgot one: Collapsing of comments. The client you need to beat, really, is MiniHack [1].

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news-sim...

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#37
So. I immediately upgraded to the Black Hat plan (no ads forever) and would say you are charging way too little or should not use in app purchase.

We HN users are a dedicated base of people. While you need data to decide this, I think you will find that most people will pay more than $3.99 for no ads. I think most of us are happy to pay for a quality product.

Outside that, I really hope that this will become my go-to for hacker news :)

Caveat: for some reason I cannot post a comment from the client but the error is not verbose. It also says "tu " instead of "to". Just a note.

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#38
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So. I immediately upgraded to the Black Hat plan (no ads forever) and would say you are charging way too little or should not use in app purchase. We HN users are a dedicated base of people. While you need data to decide this, I think you will find that most people will pay more than $3.99 for no ads. I think most of us are happy to pay for a quality product. Outside that, I really hope that this will become my go-to…

We are trying to solve this issue. Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

#39

This is great! It's rather suprising why an all-round HN app app isn't available in the App Store. What does the up arrow in the top right of comments section supposed to do? P.S. I also got the same error as jamescostian when trying to comment from the app.

The button is to uproot the post. In the next version we will add a button to uproot directly from the feed
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