Hacker News Reader

Comment by tabs_masterrace | Hacker News Reader

Congrats on shipping!!

Some quick feedback: Haptic Feedback, too much. Please don't do it on every push/pop.

Home page a bit overloaded, not very clear what the default HN page is. News? Front? Classic?

Comment and upvote count not too prominent enough. These two, together with the headline are what you glance for when scrolling the feed.

Personally I feel on the XS font size seeems a bit too big, seems about right for a normal app, but for a HN-Reader I'd go one smaller (for everything basically).

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Yea, the haptic feedback wasn't supposed to be there for the push/pop/back button. It's a bug, I already fixed it and submitted to Apple, it will be available in an update tomorrow.

I will be adding a setting to change font sizes in an update. I can also add a different row view with the comment and upvote count more prominent.

The home page items are the same endpoints which HN has as can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

The classic as per HN uses the same ranking system, but only counts votes from very early/older users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Hey! So I released an update today which adds settings to change the font size for story title, text and metadata. It also removes the haptic feedback for back, setting and search buttons. Plus a setting to disable it entirely.

There will also be another update tomorrow available which will also add ability to edit the padding around elements to make it as compact as you like which lets you see more content on screen. Check out the screenshots of what it would look like after tomorrow’s update (note that all sizes will be fully customizable to your liking):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wd2n18vh77y94of/AAC5bwOI1xWL1rtuL...

I will also add auto hide on scroll for the top UI elements. I was going to add it today but the font stuff took priority.

I will also add a way to make a page the home page on launch.

Let me know what you think and any other feedback!

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