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I'm from Istanbul, and I love how this block makes my pro-govt friends say "Why did they do this?". Twitter is (was?) used extensively in Turkey, and I feel like this block will end up with the government shooting itself in the foot by showing their supporters how sad the things they do are. There's no explanation for this block, and there can't ever be.

Woo, thanks for the nice words! Search as in filtering the hot feed or site wide?

Thanks! We love Pocket :)

Thank you! I see. I agree with you. Definitely thinking about adding them ;)

Or it may not even refresh at all. From the docs, it seems like it's a pretty intelligent API that optimises itself with usage.

Hey, developer of the app here.

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.

Hey Hacker News, developer of the app here.

Thanks for the awesome response! The most requested feature is comments by far, totally understand it. Comments are a planned feature, and we intend to implement them as soon as we can. For now though the app is focused deeply on saving posts and links, so Hack Later still might be worth checking out, if you haven't already.

Also, promo codes are fun.

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Hey there, we're planning on adding comments in the near future.

Hey, thanks! That's @edwellbrook rocking the design. We had a conversation about open sourcing it but we ended up choosing not to, dealing with bad, bad guys just cloning the repo & submitting to App Store looks hard. :(

Comments are planned though!

The app doesn't currently do comments. But you're right — scraping comments will be non-trivial for me. The current setup involves a simple scraper - caching layer, abstracted from the iOS app.

Not for now, sorry :( We're working on it, though!

This was the exact aim of the app when we started making it. But with all the requests about comments, we're definitely thinking it ;)

Hey, I noted your suggestions down. Thanks!

Comments are definitely something planned.

Heyo, developer of the app here.

http://hn.premii.com is absolutely mind blowing — it's lightweight, web based and super fast.

The functionality of Hack Later is its speed and deep read later (currently Pocket only) integration. Comments are in the works, too! Also, I'm probably biased but I think it's pretty good looking :)

Hey there, I'm the developer of the app.

Firstly, thanks for buying the app! I wasn't personally expecting this much response, it was meant to be a read-only app, but I personally ended up missing comments as well. I understand your concern. I've good news though : we started the work on implementing comments :)

Hey there, developer of the app here.

The app doesn't support comments for now, but we're working on implementing it. I wasn't personally expecting this much response, it was meant to be a read-only, simple app but I ended up missing comments in my own personal usage too. Don't worry, they're in the works! :)

Sorry for the confusion! If you don't want to wait, news:yc (http://newsyc.me/) is an awesome app that does comments already!

I personally don't think that HTML and CSS are a good fit for building complicated, highly performant mobile layouts in the first place.

Additionally, despite my love for JavaScript, JavaScript is not as fast as native code on mobile phones. You can really feel the difference between a fully native app and a web based app on iOS. (well, unless you can build something as good as Fastbook[1])

But there are definitely things that you can do with two lines of HTML & CSS (like advanced text layouts) that require much, much more code in Objective-C.

Someday it will become a personal choice and hopefully won't differ at all to the user, but I don't think we're there just yet.

[1] How on earth is this this good? http://fb.html5isready.com/

That helped a lot, thank you.