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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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user207 wrote: post #12
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…

brilliant work, please do twitter next very addicting

Thank you! That's funny, when I started this project I actually wanted to build it for HN, Reddit and Twitter, but couldn"t find the time for it and scrapped that idea. Guess I should revisit that decision.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by exikyut »

kimusan wrote: post #25
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 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* might be broken, or at least made much much harder to maintain, by the fragmentation induced from being able to run off and build totally alternative interfaces.

It's just a thought. I'm not sure if this is just hot air.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pritambarhate »

vonadz wrote: post #33
pritambarhate wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an informative website. This is bad UX for an informative site. Sure it can support keyboard shortcuts for additional fast access. It will be better for power users. But disabling scrolling with mouse and touchpad is hostile and counter productive to the casual users who might be interested in the content.

It appears the whole point of this site is the keyboard navigation. If you don't like it, just use Hacker News.

Yes, but "enabling keyboard navigation" shouldn't mean disabling mouse based navigation. There are multiple people on this thread who are confused because of disabled scrolling which shows that it's bad UX.

> If you don't like it, just use Hacker News.

Yes, I will not be using this site. Just giving my feedback and opinion on the UX just like you.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue »

sz4kerto wrote: post #28

It's great. But. Can you please give me an option to just select the entry as if it was a 'normal' menu instead of scrolling the whole page and keeping the 'cursor' steady at the top?

Thanks! This is something I initially tested during development but didn"t feel right for me, so I scrapped. But having an option to switch the mode might be a good idea.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue »

davidcollantes wrote: post #9
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…

How do I read the comments?

You have to use your arrow keys, WASD or HJKL to navigate through the comments.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by a_c »

Love having more sites enabled with deterministic navigation!

Unrelated, I love keeping my hands on home row, regardless the website I'm visiting with the help of browser plugin vimium.

It allows you to navigate with hjkl, label links and opening them with t, quickly jumps to opened tab with o, etc

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue »

jack_riminton wrote: post #45

Really nice, fancy doing a dark mode version? Also I didn't quite get how I was supposed to see comments

Thanks, definitely gonna add dark mode soon! I was hoping the arrow would convey enough meaning but I guess it's too subtle. I'm curious, did you read the "How to..." at the start?
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