Comment by zio99 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zio99 | Hacker News Reader

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I worked on a similar app [1] and it runs as a standalone web app on the iOS homescreen as well. A couple of things that I love about it:

  1. I've done away with a lot of the features the OP has - such
  as comments (unless it's Ask HN), time of post and link. This 
  has made it more lightweight and faster to load on slow mobile 
  networks in my area.

  2. Also, it's only updated twice a day since I actually built 
  this for myself to stop spending so much time on HN.
  
  3. And since I found myself only reading the front page on my 
  commute to  work, it aggregates all the front page articles into 
  one nice page instead of opening one article up at a time.

Not to take away from the OP, but would love any feedback on the whole "less is more" approach.

[1] http://hn.dinopost.com/

This is cool. Finding myself spending too much time on HN, I'm looking to write something similar myself with the purpose of making a weekly digest of only the top stories.

Looks like a few [1][2] have already made the efforts to write filtering based on karma score.

Edit: The OP's app is very close to what I want, but instead of limiting to top 10, use a point threshold directly.

1: https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter 2: http://hnapp.com

Thanks for the feedback. I'll probably open source it at some point. Right now, the components are somewhat tightly coupled.

I prefer the way this one preloads the story contents; I take the subway to work so I have a while without internet access. It would be nice to have comment links at least though, so there's the option to read them if it seems interesting. And the 'open all' button doesn't work for me, assuming that's what the '^' in the top right corner is supposed to do.

Hi Kevin, Thank you for your feedback. The '^' was meant to reveal a translation feature that I was working on, but I suppose 'Open All' would be a more worthwhile feature to implement. The markdown on HN makes it a little tricky to render comments (with their nesting), but glad you mentioned it [1]. Anyone second that feature request?

[1] Wasn't sure of how many people read comments before the article, or read them at all - I stopped when I found that it gave me a biased read, especially on the Show HN type posts.

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