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Comment by bennyg | Hacker News Reader

Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause I didn't like the UI on other HN readers. In that vein, I probably didn't add some stuff that people would like in a HN client, so I want your opinions on what to include/remove/improve in v1.1 - don't hold back. I personally couldn't stand the design on the other similar apps and I want people to enjoy reading HN on their iPhones/iPods.

And yes, there's an iPad version in the works too!

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And if anybody is wondering, review time was at 5 days for this one.

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  > Okay, so I originally made this app for myself cause
  > I didn't like the UI on other HN readers

I was thinking about creating HN reader myself for exactly the same reason. Tried out about 10 different readers was not satisfied with either of them (sorry, that includes this app too :( ). However there is an web app which gets UI right: http://hackerwebapp.com — and that's what I am using. And if I ever will do my own native HN reader it will basically have UI stolen from HackerWeb :)

+1 for Hacker Web. Works perfectly across my iPhone/iPad/Macbook. Interesting (yet effective) way to manage long nested comments too.

This looks awesome, just wish I can log in and post comments using it.

Seriously, I really hope that some iOS devs would steal the UI from it too :)

Will the iPad version be separate app or will there be a universal update? (so I know whether to buy it now or just wait)

The app is free.

Separate.

Not available on the Australian App Store?

Should be. It may take a little while to proliferate through Apple's system. After they told me it was "Ready for Sale", it took 45 minutes before a link worked for me. And as soon as it did I posted here haha, so it may be just a little bit.

I'd like to request for the ability to open links in comments.

Thanks for creating this:)

Definitely working on this. The function I had wasn't lining things up properly, so I may have to change the framework of how I'm doing it to get it to work. It was super buggy and I didn't want that clouding it up for initial release.

It'll be in v1.1

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