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Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#21

I've been using this for a at least a month now and it's really great, and I'd almost rather browse HN from Materialistic than the site itself. If there's anything I could change, it would be to add a setting that turns off swiping when I'm inside a story (to switch between comments/article/readability) along with swipe vote/reply for comments.

It's already on my list, just didn't have time to do it yet.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#23
post #7

This has been my main HN client for several weeks. It works well.

Same. I discovered a setting that brings up a little arrow pad on comment pages, so that I can swipe up/down on it to go to the previous/next comment at that level in the tree, and left/right to go out/in a particular comment thread. It's extremely useful for e.g. skipping over long comment threads I'm not interested in.

It supports Konami code as well :)

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#24

While I think it's the best of what's available, it still misses some features. No downvoting, no flagging, preformatted text gets mangled, and the own comments/conversations view is not ideal. It's so close...

Yeah, but it allows me to reply, so it's already better than all the other clients I've tried. Good job!

I don't like how sparse material design is, but oh well.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#25
post #12

It's definitely the most feature-rich HN client. Sad that something comparable is not on iOS :( (But the ones on iOS aren't bad..I've had the most luck with one called "Hacker News" by Premii)

MiniHack! Been using it for a couple of years. Easily the best native HN client on iOS.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#26
post #12

It's definitely the most feature-rich HN client. Sad that something comparable is not on iOS :( (But the ones on iOS aren't bad..I've had the most luck with one called "Hacker News" by Premii)

MiniHack! Been using it for a couple of years. Easily the best native HN client on iOS.

I'd love to use it, but it's not free.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#27

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MiniHack! Been using it for a couple of years. Easily the best native HN client on iOS.

I'd love to use it, but it's not free.

It costs less than a cup of coffee.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MiniHack! Been using it for a couple of years. Easily the best native HN client on iOS.

I'd love to use it, but it's not free.

Dude, just pay the $1.99. It's a quality app with no ads, and it's, what, 0.3% the cost of the device you're running it on?

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#29
It's a nice app and I've been using it for some time, but one thing that's always bothered me is the strange scrolling / caching behavior of the app. A quick scroll down displays a blank page while content is gradually "plugged" in. I don't think I've ever seen this odd scrolling behavior in another app.

Re: Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

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post #20

While I think it's the best of what's available, it still misses some features. No downvoting, no flagging, preformatted text gets mangled, and the own comments/conversations view is not ideal. It's so close...

I plan to implement downvoting but I'm not sure of the logic involved (I don't have enough karma to test it myself). Probably I'll add it to a beta channel and let users help test it. Performance can be laggy and is something I'm trying to improve.

Cheers, I just donated you one.
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