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I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment),
by Watabou 9y ago
I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment), it's the most feature rich HN client I've seen yet, so it's a bit hard for me to switch to this just yet.
That said, I tried it out and here's my feedback for HNbuddy:
- This looks really nice, and loads comments super fast for me!
- An iPad version of HNBuddy would be nice. I'd be willing to pay for that, maybe as an IAP?
- Support for commenting, new posts, currently it's more of a "reader", which may be the intention, not sure.
- No ability to downvote? I can downvote in MiniHack and the regular website but not in HNBuddy
- A lighter Darker theme
- tsucres 9y agoThank you for your long feedback! I focused on the "passive" usage of HN for this first version. I'll add the downvote feature (along with the post/comment submission feature) in the next major update.
- balladeer 9y agoMaybe leave the passive mode with an enable/disable option in settings somewhere so that a user can continue passively until duty calls :)
- qubex 9y agoI've long been very frustrated by the search for a “perfect” HackerNews client for iOS (this is a thread I posted here a while ago asking for suggestions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838104 ). I really like HNBuddy. It cannot become my main client until there's a dedicated iPad version and until it allows me to comment, but I really like it and look forward to watching your improvements. Thanks for bringing this.
- drak0n1c 9y agoSecond on iPad support. Depending on how the project's storyboard is set up it might not be too much effort to support iPad.