Hacker News Web App for Mobile • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by jimbobimbo » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #70

jimbobimbo wrote: post #57

Looks awesome on Win7/IE10, but doesn't work on WP7.8 :( Gets stuck on the loading animation.

Sorry not supporting WP7. I will have to rewrite the whole thing and performance will suffer for non-WP7 users.

Understandable. Thanks anyway - great experience!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by stevewillows » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

If only HN proper looked this good by default.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by songgao » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 7:13 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

Hey, great work! I really like it. I noticed when added into home screen, if I click through the direct link to the article, there's not way to go back. This is probably related to "apple-mobile-web-app-*" meta tags. Is there any tweak that can make it possible to go back from external article page?

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by telecuda » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 7:18 PM UTC

The link within the thread that breaks out of your mobile web app should open in standard Safari - this way I can easily email or SMS the link to a friend. Nice job.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by publicfig » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 7:28 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #83

rochak100 wrote: post #22

awesome work.. is this open source? Can someone share the link please many thks

No, its not. PM me if you want source code. You can use it however you like it without any restriction.

I would love the source code just to read through as well. I also cannot PM you as it won't let me.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by bandla7 » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 7:46 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #83

rochak100 wrote: post #22

awesome work.. is this open source? Can someone share the link please many thks

No, its not. PM me if you want source code. You can use it however you like it without any restriction.

Hi I would love to see the source code. You did a very good job.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by thekingshorses » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

serkanyersen wrote: post #97

thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

This is an excellent design and implementation. I'll be using this from now on :) I have one request though. when a comment is collapsed it should also collapse the child comments just like a tree. Maybe you can add reply, upvote, downvote support too. btw I would pay for this app. Thanks

Collapsing comment is not for thread, but it is side effect of the feature. If you visit the same thread again after 5 mintues. It will only display new comments since your last visit. All other comments are collapsed by default.

I am not sure the best way to implement comment collapse with thread collapse.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by heyitsnick » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 8:26 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

What are you using for stripping the content from the links?

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by cohort » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

Love it! Nice work. Can I suggest you wrap the web app up using trigger.io (or something similar) and place it on the app stores. I'd happily pay a few squid for this!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by hugofirth » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 8:44 PM UTC

This looks brilliant!

I was using hacker news as an example to espouse the benefits of a decent mobile design the other day... another user tried to tell me that Hacker news was perfect for mobile browsing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171701). I present your work as compelling evidence to the contrary.

In all seriousness though - this is the sort of thing I have been meaning to get around to myself - thank you.