Hacker News App for Windows 8

Literally everything about it is bad. The layout, the color scheme, everything.

I would also like to mention that there are some fundamental flaws to this "app", as well. First and foremost it's a Windows 8 application. I'm not saying that Windows is bad. But the demographic here is largely skewed towards the Unix variants. And those who do use Windows are likely to be using Windows 7, not 8.

Secondly, it's a full screen proprietary application. Why is fullscreen a problem? People don't sit at a computer for the sole purpose of "I'm going to read Hacker News". It's more of a passive thing you do while doing other work. I don't think anyone would want HN taking up their entire screen. It's fine for something like a smartphone or tablet which is by definition passive, but a desktop computer.... not so much.

Lastly, you can do the same exact thing in a browser extension, which would be open source, not fullscreen/in the way and cross-platform.

While writing this I realized that this costs $2. I had doubts that people would download this as a free application, but there is no way in hell anyone would ever consider paying money for this.

I'm sorry to be a dick, but I have a hunch that you have had nothing but undeserved positive encouragement while building this application. Scrap this shit. Make a game or something.