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Is anyone using this? Is it any good?

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So on the balance of comments here I decided to give it a whirl. Posting this from the app, looks pretty good so far.

It's ok. I wish he would do some updates though. There are some annoying bugs and I haven't ever seen this updated.

hey. I'd love to hear about these bugs! you can either post them in this thread or email me at grinich@mit.edu. feature requests are also very welcome.

Two feature requests:

1. Let me pull down the reply field to see the comment I'm replying to. Having to reply blind is frustrating.

2. Figure out how to make it so that I can select text from comments.

Instapaper support would be nice, but not immediately necessary for me.

Overall, I quite like it (better than iCombinator and trying to use HN directly). Only two problems I have:

1) It seems to crash on threads with too many comments... I'm guessing it runs out of RAM, perhaps?

2) I can't log in with my OpenID.

If you can let me know what threads it crashes on, that would be really helpful. I have suspicions that it's actually an issue with the parser, not memory.

I've had it crash on the more "popular" iPad threads recently, where there've been ~193 comments. I'm not sure how much you'd be able to do with this given how HN sends the data.

Ok. I'll check it out. Thanks.

It's seemed like it's anything with over ~100-120 comments, but I'll drop you a line the next time I encounter one.

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