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Really cool! My $0.02: I wish this looked more like hacker news: IE, same colors, same fonts, same text size. I've been using Hacker News for so long that its

Really cool! My $0.02: I wish this looked more like hacker news: IE, same colors, same fonts, same text size. I've been using Hacker News for so long that its look and feel are part of its queues. Different colors / fonts just gives the same content a different feel. I'm torn on how you display comments. One thing that I don't like in Hacker News is that a top-level comment with a lot of replies ends up pushing other top-level comments too far in the page. Your approach, though, is the polar opposite: Never show replies until I select a comment and push ->. Perhaps show a few of the replies with smaller text?

filoleg 5y ago
wow, I've never even thought of such a simple change until I've read your reply (all comments collapsed by default as opposed to expanded by default), but I want it really badly now. Many HN apps and browser extension by now have an easy way to to collapse comments (usually by clicking an icon next to the comment or tapping on the comment on touchscreens), but I don't think I've seen one yet where collapsed by default is an option. P.S. And now that I am thinking more about it, apps and extensions (at least the ones i've used so far) don't even have the true "collapsing" function (or maybe I just wasn't aware of where it is buried in the settings, so please let me know if I am wrong here). When you try to collapse on Refined HN (ff/chrome extension) or HACK (iOS app), it doesn't hide all child comments and then keeps the root comment (just listed those two extensions/apps as an example, because those are the two I personally use). It hides the content of all comments including the root comment that you clicked, but it leaves a small indicator that there is a collapsed comment, basically just the username and the number of comments. To this point, I have a question to everyone. If there is an HN app for iOS that anyone can genuinely recommend that has a feature when you collapse a comment, it still shows the one you clicked "collapse" on but hides all child comments (as opposed to the text content of the root comment you collapsed being hidden as well), please post them.
- behnamoh 5y ago
  Reading the comments on Haxplore using Haxplore is so meta: https://imgur.com/a/v4tbfqP https://imgur.com/a/v4tbfqP
- tppiotrowski 5y ago
  https://hackerweb.app https://hackerweb.app It has collapsed comments by default and works well on mobile and decent on desktop.
pabue 5y ago
Thanks, good point. I'm thinking about adding a hacker news theme that mirrors the colors and fonts. Showing a few replies would be possible, but I think it would clutter the interface and make the thing a bit more confusing. In my opinion showing the amount of replies should be enough, but I will keep this in mind.

filoleg 5y ago

wow, I've never even thought of such a simple change until I've read your reply (all comments collapsed by default as opposed to expanded by default), but I want it really badly now. Many HN apps and browser extension by now have an easy way to to collapse comments (usually by clicking an icon next to the comment or tapping on the comment on touchscreens), but I don't think I've seen one yet where collapsed by default is an option. P.S. And now that I am thinking more about it, apps and extensions (at least the ones i've used so far) don't even have the true "collapsing" function (or maybe I just wasn't aware of where it is buried in the settings, so please let me know if I am wrong here). When you try to collapse on Refined HN (ff/chrome extension) or HACK (iOS app), it doesn't hide all child comments and then keeps the root comment (just listed those two extensions/apps as an example, because those are the two I personally use). It hides the content of all comments including the root comment that you clicked, but it leaves a small indicator that there is a collapsed comment, basically just the username and the number of comments. To this point, I have a question to everyone. If there is an HN app for iOS that anyone can genuinely recommend that has a feature when you collapse a comment, it still shows the one you clicked "collapse" on but hides all child comments (as opposed to the text content of the root comment you collapsed being hidden as well), please post them.

behnamoh 5y ago
Reading the comments on Haxplore using Haxplore is so meta: https://imgur.com/a/v4tbfqP https://imgur.com/a/v4tbfqP
tppiotrowski 5y ago
https://hackerweb.app https://hackerweb.app It has collapsed comments by default and works well on mobile and decent on desktop.

pabue 5y ago

Thanks, good point. I'm thinking about adding a hacker news theme that mirrors the colors and fonts. Showing a few replies would be possible, but I think it would clutter the interface and make the thing a bit more confusing. In my opinion showing the amount of replies should be enough, but I will keep this in mind.