Hacker News (YC) Reviews

Started crashing recently

Vin443

Love this app. But recently it started crashing. It doesn't display comments anymore and clicking on a comment crashes the app instantly. I suspect this might be due to recent hacker news changes related to comments. I tried to find developer's contact but couldn't find. Writing this review in hope of developer seeing it and fixing the app.

Great app. One critical UI interaction could be improved.

meltmade

I use this everyday to get caught up. It's a stellar client program. My only annoyance is in the way that the "swipe to go back" gesture is implemented. You have to really, really put a lot of effort into the gesture, or otherwise the view you're trying to swipe away from will just spring back into the foreground.

Somewhat broken lately.

goblin89

Allows selecting text in comments (to get a definition, for example). Visible actionable URLs of the original page and its HN post. Well-done convenient way to collapse a comment with its children. Very usable. All the kudos. Used to allow to easily open in Safari original pages and HN posts, including comments (to reply or keep tabs on, for example), but this is broken for a while now. No upvoting or downvoting functionality. Swiping left to navigate back and swiping up to scroll glitch frequently.

Pretty but broken

Some Wilde Person

Swipe to go back leaves the pane stuck in the middle of the screen. The readability parser fails most of the time. Impossible to get a link out of it to share to a friend (sends you to the online version of the app instead). Touch targets are far too small.

Nice but has UI issues

710 Skyline

Swipe back to the article list takes a lot of effort to get right.

Good for the most part.

davenportw15

This app is fairly good. As others have said, scrolling back to the main list is completely broken. Also, comments sometimes stop loading until the app is closed and reopened.

Best hacker news app

Big poppa 6969

Definitely the best hacker news app. Easy to read comments and view links, and it's free

Beautiful, but severely flawed.

r.kho

Aesthetically, this is gorgeous. It adheres to such a nice design language, and it's exactly why I installed it in the first place. Unfortunately, the developer has decided to basically build this application using some sort of wrapper instead of natively. It's hugely obvious when you attempt to swipe backwards and the emulator simply stutters and fails a dozen times before you give up. A+ for design. F for technology choice.

Flawed, very flawed

Brandon741

I prefer viewing HN on a browser to this buggy thing. Lots of issues, some links to a webview of hacker news.

Works, but semi problematic

Matt Ras

It's great that they enable commenting and login, but there are some significant flaws to usability: 1. Posting a comment - your comment won't show. 2. Swipe "back" won't actually navigate back regularly - the card you're swiping will usually just fall back into place, so you get in the habit of using the back button in the menu bar.

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