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What problem does this app solve? I find using browsers for websites is more usable for me than using an app. I can have many tabs open, I can copy anything I need, press on links and do what I have been doing on the web for 20 years. All those apps brake the web, and make it actually harder to use it...

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I personally hate browsing HN in a browser, even on computer. I use a plugin for chrome that does something similar to the apps where I can easily flip back and forth between the comments and the article. Especially with the rapidly expiring links, I find flipping back and forth to be useful.

This also uses the bigrss to get several pages on stories instead of just one.

which plugins?

Hacker News OnePage - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-onepag...

HN in particular is a total pain on an iPhone. Even though the design adjusts to the width, the width that Safari chooses is much too small for the text to be very legible. It's probably like 3 pt or something which is technically readable on the retina screen but not very comfortable. And zooming is pretty worthless when the lines are long and you constantly have to pan around.

PG seems to have no desire to make it work better, so that's why these apps exist.

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