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.
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#22I've been liking this app a lot too, but the scrolling gets very choppy on long comment threads. Is this a common issue?
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#23This 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.
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#24While 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 don't like how sparse material design is, but oh well.
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#25It'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)
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#26It'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.
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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.
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#30While 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.