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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

#91

Post by andrewl-hn »

pabue wrote: post #36
snsr wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web page doesn’t scroll.

This is intentional. You have to use your arrow keys, WASD or HJKL to navigate.

However, it's impossible to read longer comments this way. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705415 in this very thread is too long to fit in my browser window, which is maximized on my 16" laptop. So far I'm just pressing O, but it still takes time. A scroll for long comments would be really welcomed.

Other than that, it's a very cool UI! I can see using it full-time and press O only when I want to reply. Actually, I just did :D

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#92

Post by pabue »

pramodbiligiri wrote: post #20

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story? - On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on. - Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcu…

1. I initially wanted to display as little information as possbile to keep it clean and prevent clutter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to show at least the comments count.

2. Oh, I didn't notice that. Might be caused by the way the new tab is opened. Gonna look into that, thanks.

3. Good catch, gonna change that.

4. Do mean contrast wise?

5. You're right, the spacing between paragraphs is missing. That will get fixed.

6. Yea, I will probably increase the speed of the transition to match the rest of the UI. The modal exists for reading longer comments. It's unnecessary for most, but during testing I found quite a lot of very long comments (especially in Ask HN) that didn't fit on the screen. Scrolling directly inside the comment felt weird, so I added the modal. It also increases the text size and makes it easier to read long paragraphs.

Thank you very much for your feedback!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#93

Post by pabue »

Aissen wrote: post #39
pramodbiligiri wrote: post #20

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story? - On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on. - Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcu…

Re: Alt+H ; it's the same for Alt+O on Firefox.

Thank you! Gonna fix that later.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#95

Post by pabue »

jack_riminton wrote: post #52
pabue wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Well, I 'thought' I'd read the the "How to"! Maybe it needs a small guided tour thing

A guided tour is a good idea. I thought about that too but figured it would be too much for an experiment like that. Maybe I was wrong.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#97

Post by pabue »

salamander014 wrote: post #71
smallerfish wrote: post #70

Can you please avoid blurring the prior column (or at least the comment you came from)? It's useful to see context that way. Otherwise I think it's really good. Reddit should have aspired to something this well thought out. (I'd also like page up / page down.)

I agree. I like the idea of visualizing previous item in some way, maybe faded instead? Should give the same effect.

The previous item (or parent comment) is always visible in the white box on top/above the current comment. But it's quite easy overlooked because the change from the article/link to the comment is not very noticable.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

#99

Post by pramodbiligiri »

pabue wrote: post #92
pramodbiligiri wrote: post #20

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story? - On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on. - Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcu…

1. I initially wanted to display as little information as possbile to keep it clean and prevent clutter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to show at least the comments count. 2. Oh, I didn't notice that. Might be caused by the way the new tab is opened. Gonna look into that, thanks. 3. Good catch, gonna change that. 4. Do mean contrast wise? 5. You're right, the spacing between paragraphs is missing. That will get fixed.…

You’re welcome!

Regarding 4, yep the contrast is less. Hard to make black text stand out against shades of green. An even lighter shade might work.

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