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Show HN: HackerScroll, A simple and clean inline Hacker News submissions reader

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Why is it necessary to permanently reserve ~10% of the available screen space to show the name of the app and a GitHub link?

I agree. There's no need for a sticky header here.

I am going to switch it out to sticky the post information and the collapse button.

This feature is now live! Give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback.

I like the fact that you can expand the content of link submissions. I wish my fav HN reader app Octal (iOS) had this feature. On the other hand, to read comments with HackerScroll you have to go the original page ( which is less pleasant to read), whereas with Octal comments are laid out really nicely.

My iOS hn reader has a quick read functionality. Been thinking of adding this feature, would be happy to add you to the TestFlight if you want to try it out.

I may have missed it in the comments… which HN reader app is that? Wondering if it would be better than Octal in some way

Realized you were actually taking about Octal - yes that feature would be great to have. I’ll wait for a new version

Very nice work and good design.

I'd prefer if the expand button was on the right on mobile as it makes it easy to reach it with the thumb but no biggie. Also a similar collapse for viewing the top level comments can be a wonderful idea.

Loved the concept, but there's too much white-space, lot's of screen real-estate lost.

On my MacBook Pro 16-inches, I can see 12 stories on HS while on HN, I can see 27 at one go.

I am not saying the UI needs to be as dense as it is on `news.ycombinator.com` but it can be much more denser than what it is right now.

Also, +1 for dark mode, although, DarkReader works quite well for now!

Nice, I was wondering how it would embed twitter links but those submissions seem to be hidden by default

HackerScroll already detects and embeds YouTube links, I am going to look into doing the same with Twitter links.

It might be useful to load the pages using the Nitter front end instead too

Very nice. Just missing a dark mode.

Agreed on dark mode! It looks good with dark reader though. [0]

[0]https://darkreader.org/

This is incredible. Nice work. Would love to see the number of comments/upvotes

Awesome piece of code!

Looks beautiful

Nice! Great work!

Looks great!

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