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10 points·hodgesmr··5 comments

Oh, please don't do this:

"Historically, these features [vote ups and comments] are hard to use on small devices and I want to make an app that is easy to use."

I understand that you want to make a minimal app (personal preference or laziness – doesn't really matter), but claiming that vote ups ("like buttons") are hard to use on a mobile device just makes it sound like you weren't able to build it.

It's your app, and you can do what ever you feel fit with it. There's no need to excuse your decisions with made up facts.

Thanks for the feedback, but I meant what I wrote. I'm a big fan of the HackerNode app, but I find it extremely hard to traverse the comment threads when reading with it. I've been contemplating for a while on better ways, but haven't come up with anything yet.

I also found that personally, I just want the stories. A lot of the time that I'm on Proggit or HN, I'm not even logged in. So I made an app that did what I want.

Same with voting. I made a reader, not a client.

However, forks and contributions are always welcome, so if you have ideas and are jonesing to contribute, feel free!

I really like the UI you made. And the ability to change the number of days to keep posts is really cool too. Are you doing any checking for duplicate posts between sites?

Thanks! And yes! If you check out the CoreDataManager -- https://github.com/hodgesmr/CoderNews/blob/master/CoderNews/... -- you can see that I'm checking by url and title. There could be improvements though, like parsing trailing slashes that sometimes allow for dupes.

Won't run on my iphone, since it requires ios 6.1.

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