Trying it out and liking it so far. I've noticed it does make my phone (Droid Turbo) heat up. May be from the frequent data reloads while I'm scrolling.
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Thanks for the reply. I really like the "comment search" feature in Relay based on time (show and jump through comments added in last X minutes), words (jump through comments that contain certain words), jump to comments based on author (OP, me), etc. There are many more comment search parameters, but these are my favorite.
I already have similar request in my backlog. This is gonna be tricky, because I don't have all comments up front as they are loaded on demand (even for saved comments - loaded on demand from cache).
can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api
sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.
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#93Big fan of Materialistic here. By far the best Android HN app I've found. Didn't realise this but I must have downloaded it just after you put it on the play store. Even the first versions were solid.
No shopping list of features :). Just wanted to say good job (posted with Materialistic)
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I already have similar request in my backlog. This is gonna be tricky, because I don't have all comments up front as they are loaded on demand (even for saved comments - loaded on demand from cache).
can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.
Yeah that's one way to go. Probably I'll use Algolia for users that prefer up front loading. It's slower than official API but would do the job.
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I used another app called HN before yours. It did not have this problem. TBH I'd rather have it aggressively load all the content. It isn't that much data and the current experience is frankly jarring. I also can't seem to figure out how to consistently jump to the next top level parent comment with the nav button. It seems to jump to other comments lower in the current thread which I'm trying to skip past. Am I miss…
I already did some optimization to load 1 extra page of comments in advance, which I believe should improve the experience. I also tried the same trick for stories but got some janky issues that I need to figure out first. Swipe down the button should go to next same level comment, or if none it goes to the next one, which is the 1st child. User-related content support is quite limited at the moment as I need to craw…
Do you have any user data on whether people would prefer the downswiping went to the next comment at the same level, or the next parent regardless of if they are currently on a child?
My use case is that I'm scrolling and I get bored with a thread. It isn't much different to swipe up on the thread to scroll down further if I wanted to keep reading, and there is no easy way to just jump to the next top-level thread. I'm left either having to collapse several levels of comments to condense things, or scroll until I hope I find the next one and don't miss it.
At the very least, I feel like this should be configurable behavior for the button.
But again, this is just me, so you might have data saying people want otherwise, and this is free so I shouldn't complain :)
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#96It'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.
Just got it on this recommendation, absolutely worth the couple of quid, love the auto dark mode based on screen brightness
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I already did some optimization to load 1 extra page of comments in advance, which I believe should improve the experience. I also tried the same trick for stories but got some janky issues that I need to figure out first. Swipe down the button should go to next same level comment, or if none it goes to the next one, which is the 1st child. User-related content support is quite limited at the moment as I need to craw…
Do you have any user data on whether people would prefer the downswiping went to the next comment at the same level, or the next parent regardless of if they are currently on a child? My use case is that I'm scrolling and I get bored with a thread. It isn't much different to swipe up on the thread to scroll down further if I wanted to keep reading, and there is no easy way to just jump to the next top-level thread. I…
It's the 1st version of on-screen navigation so for sure there are rooms for improvement. I think of it as a D-pad, as in games, when you make selection with D-pad, down means selecting below item. I can make a toggle option to reverse scroll direction though.
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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 :)
This is great! Although, I'll shamefully admit that after just doing the Konami code and seeing nothing happen, I went so far as to take a look at the source to get the last step. :)
You did indeed get a 5-star review out of it, though :)
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#99It's nice, but I don't like how the comments view wants to keep scrolling sideways. I wish it worked more like the articles view with swipe to vote. I'll never use the readability mode so I'd love to just disable it.
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#100It's the best HN app I've used, though that's not saying much since all the others are terrible.