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Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone

42 points by holman 15y ago

idigit 15y ago
When I click on the "download it today" button, it forwards me to a not found page in the app store. :(
- watmough 15y ago
  Yes, same experience here, but doing a search popped it right up. This should be a direct link to it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=...
cmelbye 15y ago
Yikes, that completely custom, non-standard UI is pretty jarring for me.
- jechen 15y ago
  I thought it's quite a fresh breath of air from all the other apps. Conventions be damned!
  - cmelbye 15y ago
    Don't get me wrong, I love a custom UI in an iPhone app when it's done right. See: TweetBot. Gorgeous, 100% custom UI, and they preserved button sizes, labels, behavior, etc that the user is used to in an iPhone app.
  - jamesteow 15y ago
    Agreed, though HN'ers are on the conservative end of design.
- moxiemk1 15y ago
  I agree - this (to me) is indicative of the difference between an application that intends to be useful to me vs. one that is useful to the provider. One falls into the woodwork, presenting a painfully standardized and predictable interface, enabling me to do things instead of "using an app". The other calls attention to its existence, and challenges me to "explore" instead of "use"
- vnorby 15y ago
  It does not seem native...was probably made with Titanium or Phonegap.
  - mathrawka 15y ago
    It is native. https://twitter.com/#!/bleikamp/status/101150736989171712 https://twitter.com/#!/bleikamp/status/101150736989171712
flocial 15y ago
These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would benefit more people immediately IMHO.
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socratic 15y ago
Do people use GitHub Issues? Is there something that it's best at compared to the alternatives?
- michaelbuckbee 15y ago
  If you're evaluating it against a full blown bug/requirements tracking system like JIRA, Fogbugz or similar it is fairly lacking. If you want a dead simple, integrated, free (with your github subscription) bug tracking system that lets you close issues via git commit messages it is just what is called for.

42 points by holman 15y ago

idigit 15y ago

When I click on the "download it today" button, it forwards me to a not found page in the app store. :(

watmough 15y ago
Yes, same experience here, but doing a search popped it right up. This should be a direct link to it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=...

cmelbye 15y ago

Yikes, that completely custom, non-standard UI is pretty jarring for me.

jechen 15y ago
I thought it's quite a fresh breath of air from all the other apps. Conventions be damned!
- cmelbye 15y ago
  Don't get me wrong, I love a custom UI in an iPhone app when it's done right. See: TweetBot. Gorgeous, 100% custom UI, and they preserved button sizes, labels, behavior, etc that the user is used to in an iPhone app.
- jamesteow 15y ago
  Agreed, though HN'ers are on the conservative end of design.
moxiemk1 15y ago
I agree - this (to me) is indicative of the difference between an application that intends to be useful to me vs. one that is useful to the provider. One falls into the woodwork, presenting a painfully standardized and predictable interface, enabling me to do things instead of "using an app". The other calls attention to its existence, and challenges me to "explore" instead of "use"
vnorby 15y ago
It does not seem native...was probably made with Titanium or Phonegap.
- mathrawka 15y ago
  It is native. https://twitter.com/#!/bleikamp/status/101150736989171712 https://twitter.com/#!/bleikamp/status/101150736989171712

flocial 15y ago

These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would benefit more people immediately IMHO.

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socratic 15y ago

Do people use GitHub Issues? Is there something that it's best at compared to the alternatives?

michaelbuckbee 15y ago
If you're evaluating it against a full blown bug/requirements tracking system like JIRA, Fogbugz or similar it is fairly lacking. If you want a dead simple, integrated, free (with your github subscription) bug tracking system that lets you close issues via git commit messages it is just what is called for.