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Yeah, it's an actually good blogging site. Main thing it has against it is the lack of an app. (And that Facebook has just blocked it)
by AndrewDucker 6y ago
Yeah, it's an actually good blogging site.
Main thing it has against it is the lack of an app.
(And that Facebook has just blocked it)
- rowanG077 6y agoThe lack of an app is something for it. Literally every app of some website has the worse experience. Even worse the website will keep begging you to install their shitty app.
- easton 6y agoI'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS. There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
- peterteter 6y agoMaps is a good example, it bad on mobile because they made it bad, to force you to use the app. Its still useable but it sucks. Thats a development I often see.
- bzb3 6y agoApollo is a bad example since Reddit purposely sabotage their website so you use their app. It's perfectly possible to write a good Reddit web client; they chose not to
- designium 6y agoAgreed. I also use Apollo. I think the secrets is that is has less features so it shows content without the fluff from the official app
- Jaruzel 6y agoI use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly.hn&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... as my Hacker News app, it does me. I like that I can vote on comments and stories, but it's irritating that I can't post via it. On a medium sized phone screen, the mobile web experience of HN is not optimum in my opinion.
- raverbashing 6y agoHN works fine on mobile I think the only improvement needed might be a different style on "code" blocks, but otherwise it works great There's literally no need for an app
- ShamelessC 6y agoHN has been a really bad experience on mobile for me. It's really difficult to tap links accurately. In particular collapsing and expanding comment threads is super annoying. I've been using Hews from the Play store instead.
- hansjorg 6y agoZoom then click. Works like a charm. A bit kludgy, but still a much better user interface than any other discussion board I've used lately.
- eyeundersand 6y agoI like this on Android for HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
- busymom0 6y agoI am the developer of HACK for iOS if you want to check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer/id1464477788 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...
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- andybak 6y ago> Main thing it has against it is the lack of an app. Curious about why? I rarely use apps if there's a web page available that doesn't suck. This looks more like "Main thing it has against it is the website predates responsive, mobile friendly web design" EDIT - actually aside from a few glitches it's not awful on mobile - and a random community I tried seemed to work fairly well.
- mindways 6y agoI glanced at their latest code push a few days back, and some of the bugfixes/updates were related to presentation on mobile, so it's definitely something they're paying attention to and improving over time. (They're not blazing-fast, since the ratio of codebase-size to programmer-time is high, but they're persistent.)
- strogonoff 6y agoHow do you imagine content discovery in an app for an open-source blogging platform (self-hosted instances) could work?
- AndrewDucker 6y agoIt's not self-hosted. (You can download the source and host it yourself if you like though. But Dreamwidth itself is hosted at Dreamwidth.org)
- strogonoff 6y agoI have read that page and was speaking of discovering self-hosted instances through the app. If the hypothetical app is to be used with the main instance only, then there’s no challenge (unless there is risky/restricted content on the main instance, so the app is not allowed by Apple/Google and others).
- Pxtl 6y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1174/ https://xkcd.com/1174/
- myself248 6y ago> that Facebook has just blocked it Also possibly a feature, depending on who you ask.