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There's an app? Why?? It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with
by NikolaNovak 5y ago
There's an app? Why??
It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...
- lordnacho 5y agoI use materialistic on the phone. Design is nicer for mobile, plus I'm addicted to dark mode.
- yholio 5y agoI use Hermit to appify often accessed pages, you get a Hackernews icon on your Android desktop that behaves exactly like an app, has its own cookie jar that does not leak browsing information etc. The interface paradigm of mobile devices is built around apps, mobile browsers are a pain in the butt - deliberately, most likely.
- bennyp101 5y agoI use https://github.com/weiran/Hackers https://github.com/weiran/Hackers because it’s nice to read on, but then to comment I have to use the site, so yea lol If there was a dark mode on the site I’d just use that
- pablodavila 5y agoOctal lets you comment from the app, if that’s something you are missing.
- bennyp101 5y agoOh cool, thanks I’ll take a look
- mtmail 5y agoMost 3rd apps use the Hackernews API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- Uehreka 5y agoHaving tried to write an HN client myself, I can assure you most of them scrape instead of using the API. The API is basically read only, is impractical for things like loading a full tree of comments (get ready to make an API call for every comment) and you need to scrape if you want things like “what auth hash do I need in order to upvote this particular comment via POST”.