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Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by taude »

orbitur wrote: post #16
city41 wrote: post #10

There have been many alt HN interfaces. I try them all, yet I never end up sticking with any of them. I feel like HN meets its needs pretty well and I like that they have resisted change (whether consciously or not)

I think the happy medium is one of the browser extensions. I'm using "Hacker New" for Chrome, and it adds basic nice things like default larger text, comment collapsing. Of course, I get used to it and become annoyed if I decide to visit the unmodified HN on my mobile device.

I installed Hacker New a long time ago and I forgot I was even using it until I went to Hacker News from a different browser

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by tnorthcutt »

abrowne wrote: post #68
christiangenco wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh. This would be alright on an iPad, but it doesn't fit my current flow of browsing HN: * skim a page of links * open ~5 interesting links in new tab, open comments if I predict the comments will be interesting * go through tabs, which are already loaded by the time I get there With this strategy, there's not a millisecond of perceived loading time.

I have the same workflow, and I like http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on mobile (and sometimes desktop).

I wish this one looked the same on iOS 7 as it does on e.g. Chrome desktop. Instead it's doing some sort of app-like thing to retain iOS 6 styling, and the address bar and bottom toolbar never disappear, so the available screen real estate is very limited. At least it makes comments readable, though.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by hgezim »

bluecalm wrote: post #39

One thing I would love is: -top X posts by comments from a day/week/month -top X posts by votes from day/week/momth What I don't like about Hacker News is that interesting things fall out of front page too quickly and discussion dies I prefer interface where interesting stuff stays at the top longer (amount of comments last week approximate it well in my view).

You should take a look at http://www.hndigest.com . You can subscribe to get emails at specified intervals (daily all the way to weekly) and choose from top 5-30 stories per email.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by ionelm »

flyingmutant wrote: post #19

Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...

Is there a firefox extension or greasemonkey script for that?

Edit: There's http://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by abrowne »

tnorthcutt wrote: post #82
abrowne wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the same workflow, and I like http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on mobile (and sometimes desktop).

I wish this one looked the same on iOS 7 as it does on e.g. Chrome desktop. Instead it's doing some sort of app-like thing to retain iOS 6 styling, and the address bar and bottom toolbar never disappear, so the available screen real estate is very limited. At least it makes comments readable, though.

I don't have an iOS device anymore, and I never used that site when I did, so I forgot it did the fake-iOS thing. I definitely prefer the non-iOS theme. It looks and works great on FxOS.
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