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Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by umvi »

pabue wrote: post #127
umvi wrote: post #106

This was surprisingly pleasant to use. Such intuitive controls and sane default behaviors. Usually HN clones are a dime a dozen, but this one is a cut above for sure. The only thing keeping me from using this full time is the information density. On normal HN I see the top 30 links all at once. On this one I only see the top 11 links before I have to scroll. I think a "high info density mode" where I could see the to…

Wow, that's so nice to hear. Thank you! That's actually a great idea. If you say "high density", do you mean just less whitespace/spacing or should stuff like the upvotes, author and date be completely removed from the initial element?

On vanilla HN, a story is roughly 30 pixels in height with 5 pixels of whitespace between stories:

    PostgreSQL 14 (postgresql.org) [20px tall]
    399 points by jkatz05 2 hours ago [10px tall]
    [5px spacer]
On Haxplore, a story is roughly 75 pixels tall with 32 pixels of spacing.

If you decide to implement a high density mode (I would make sure other users beside me want this before doing that work), the primary concern IMO is just cramming more stories onto the page so users can scan down the page to read more story headlines without scrolling.

That could be achieved many ways, but if it were me I would probably do a combo of reducing whitespace, reducing font size, and removing/consolidating story info (i.e. instead of URL having it's own line, move a truncated version of URL next to story title like vanilla HN does)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue »

bennyp101 wrote: post #40
pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

I like this! I use a tiling WM, so I can have this open in a window (or scratchpad) that is shrunk to the width of your column, and just shoot over to it, and move around nice and easily! Two things: - alt + h doesn't open the Help for me, it opens the actual help menu in Firefox. - It would be nice to mark the entries as 'read' and show if more comments have happened since reading Edit: Wrapping it in a small Tauri…

Thank you for liking it :D

1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this.

2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "mark as read" part to happen automatically or manually?

2.2 Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it.

Wrapping it in a Tauri might be cool, because I actually wanted to try that. But I think the first step would be to make it a PWA, so you can install it without downloading anything.

Thank you for the feeback!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by kbenson »

pabue wrote: post #143
bennyp101 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like this! I use a tiling WM, so I can have this open in a window (or scratchpad) that is shrunk to the width of your column, and just shoot over to it, and move around nice and easily! Two things: - alt + h doesn't open the Help for me, it opens the actual help menu in Firefox. - It would be nice to mark the entries as 'read' and show if more comments have happened since reading Edit: Wrapping it in a small Tauri…

Thank you for liking it :D 1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this. 2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "mark as read" part to happen automatically or manually? 2.2 Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. Wrapping it in a Tauri might be cool, because I actually wanted…

> Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it.

At the simplest level LocalStorage or equivalent keyed on the submission id with a prior comment count to be compared with the new comment count would be sufficient. If it had a time of hast check as well, highlighting new comments would also be easy.

I'm not sure about other people, but thise are really the two things I care about most when trying to keep up with a discussion (are there new comments, and which are they).

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by vxNsr »

exikyut wrote: post #43
kimusan wrote: post #25

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I like the design - too bad that HN does not allow for you to add comment support. That would make it perfect

I was just thinking about this myself. It would be so awesome to add something like OAuth2! But then I realized, this would break the subtle cohesion of the current model. Everyone has to specifically come back to news.yc to comment. Everyone has to use the HN design. I do wonder if this is intentional, or at least strategic - because the current approach enforces a certain perspective when commenting that * perhaps…

My understanding is it’s an attempt at spam reduction. By not providing an API for commenting they make it harder for spammers.
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