A shameless plug, but my app is brand new, free, and shows comments legibly. But the #1 feature: background refresh.
It uses new APIs in iOS 7 to preload the front page before you open it.
It uses new APIs in iOS 7 to preload the front page before you open it.
I tried out your app, looks awesome — congrats! Background refresh and comments are planned for Hack Later. Feature request for Pivit : I'd love if the web view had some controls (back, forward, refresh etc.) and the comments had some contrast, it's really hard to focus to a thread.
And yes, this is a shameless plug.
With Pivit, since it's such a compact fetch, it'll happen more frequently than if you were, for instance, downloading photos. I check HN a lot, so for me, the app is always up to date. It does take a bit of learning time for the OS to know your patterns, but it is well worth it--it's really a great new API.