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I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it.

After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app.

Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN.

Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

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Working on a product for dead-simple CDN backed hosting for static websites with performance optimizations built in, called BitBalloon (https://www.bitballoon.com).

Shoot me a note at mathias@bitballoon.com if you're interested in trying it out.

you can have the app online and a lot faster than on S3 in around 30 seconds :)

Hey, great work! I really like it. I noticed when added into home screen, if I click through the direct link to the article, there's not way to go back. This is probably related to "apple-mobile-web-app-*" meta tags. Is there any tweak that can make it possible to go back from external article page?

I had the same issue. iOS 6 / iPhone 5 Have to quit the app and reopen to get back to main screen

This is an excellent design and implementation. I'll be using this from now on :) I have one request though. when a comment is collapsed it should also collapse the child comments just like a tree. Maybe you can add reply, upvote, downvote support too. btw I would pay for this app. Thanks

Collapsing comment is not for thread, but it is side effect of the feature. If you visit the same thread again after 5 mintues. It will only display new comments since your last visit. All other comments are collapsed by default.

I am not sure the best way to implement comment collapse with thread collapse.

Love the interface, but why does the Android app require GPS permissions?

What are you using for stripping the content from the links?

readability maybe?

I am using readability.

I serve some gzipped content off of S3, you just have to do the zip yourself before uploading, which is pretty straight forward using most scripting languages.

But then your content is going to require that support, returning gzip'd content with hard-coded headers even when not requested and unwelcome.

Any plans to release the source code?

Yes. I got so many emails for source code. I will put it here. https://github.com/premii/hn

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