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Show HN: 8chen – a beautiful, fast Hacker News client for iOS
- coldacid 8y agoWhat's with this app's name when there's already an imageboard site very similarly named 8chan?
- phren0logy 8y agoMaybe "8chen" because it sounds like "HN"?
- 8chen 8y agoCorrect! I had no idea "8chan" was a thing either
- miles 8y agoThanks for crafting and sharing 8chen, Daniel - very easy to read, parse, and share. Would it be possible to add an option to disable the animations?
- 8chen 8y agoThank you! I can definitely do that when I get some time. Which animations in particular, and why?
- miles 8y ago> Which animations in particular All of them ;-) > and why? Please pardon my frankness, but they strike me as garish, jarring, and unnecessary. Every time they appear is rather unsettling and distracting, to the point that I've had to switch back to another app. Again, perhaps it could be an option? I am sure that many would disagree with my assessment.
- 8chen 8y agoI appreciate frankness. A lot of the animations are just standard, out of the box iOS animations, like the push/pop navigation between UIViewControllers. I would imagine that most users like and expect these.
- miles 8y agoGreat point. I am certainly behind the times. However, I can only recall seeing textual animations like those in other HN readers, despite having 166 apps installed on my primary iOS device. Happily (for me anyway ;-), MiniHack is free of them.