Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

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Post by alexhjones » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 11:30 AM UTC

Any suggestions?

Re: Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

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Post by xauronx » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app...

I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

Re: Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

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Post by alexhjones » Thu, Mar 07, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

xauronx wrote: post #2

I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app... I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

Thanks. I like the way the 'Alien Blue' iPhone app does it but it doesn't seem like there's a HN app which does the same.

Re: Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

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Post by weiran » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 9:20 AM UTC

xauronx wrote: post #2

I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app... I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

Thanks for the hat tip.

I did think about implementing comments like Reddit / Alien Blue, but I found that it involved too much scrolling up and down and having a button at the bottom reduced that.

Re: Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

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Post by xauronx » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

weiran wrote: post #4

xauronx wrote: post #2

I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app... I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

Thanks for the hat tip. I did think about implementing comments like Reddit / Alien Blue, but I found that it involved too much scrolling up and down and having a button at the bottom reduced that.

No problem.

My big problem with the tiered implementation is that it only really works until like 4 tiers deep. After that you have a long column of text. I haven't really found a solution for that except a "View replies" that pushes another view controller with that comment at the top tier. Seems clunky though.