Hacker News Web App for Mobile • Hacker News Board

Awesome job on this! My only complaint is there's a bit too much padding in the list to make browsing articles practical on an iPhone5 . The text size option helps a little bit with this, but really if you reduced the padding that would give it just the right balance between readability and practicality. Right now it is pretty, but presents too much of a pain to try to see an entire front page's worth of results.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by mumbi » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

mumbi wrote: post #25

Link won't load so I'm not sure what it is. I personally like HackerNode on my iPhone, though. Maybe once it loads I will change my mind.

Nvm, just loaded. Very slick. Awesome site. I like it a lot.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by devgutt » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

nice works. The first of this type that I liked, but I'd like to see the actual page of the news.

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Post by nkuttler » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 2:53 PM UTC

EtienneK wrote: post #17

I take no credit for this. I found the link for this in another Hacker News thread [1] and thought that more people should know about it, so I submitted it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177361

Ah nice, another one :-)

See also http://ihackernews.com/ or http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ or (broken ssl cert) https://msean5423.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com/, and now http://hn.premii.com/. I was looking into writing one myself.

Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by publicfig » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

This is the first website I've ever added to my home screen on iOS, and I was completely unaware that by doing so, I could view the site as if it was a full screen app, not having to deal with the safari interface. I was completely unaware of that, and can now really see the utility in adding web apps to the home screen

Also, this is great. Really a solid interface.

EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on desktop, just because it's a pretty great interface for Hacker News.

EDIT 2: Nevermind, realized that it worked by acting as a sidebar on wider monitors. That makes sense.