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Have used Octal for over two years--been mostly happy with it. * High-quality reading experience. Appends the title and other helpful info to the message if yo
by tusslewake 5y ago
Have used Octal for over two years--been mostly happy with it.
* High-quality reading experience. Appends the title and other helpful info to the message if you want to share something, and provides easy options to share the HN discussion or the original article. The UI also prioritizes reading the discussion first which, let's be honest, many of on HN are known to do. ;)
* It mostly stays in sync with the front page of HN (and you can keep scrolling down, making it easier to read stuff that has fallen off the front page but is still valuable).
* The search function finds what I want about 80% of the time.
* You can log in with your HN account and see account stats, I sometimes see issues with the account stats (recent submissions, karma, etc.) staying up-to-date, but that's not a big deal to me.
- rmorey 5y ago+1 for Octal - I use it daily on iPad as well
- Xophmeister 5y agoI took the plunge and forked out the £4.49 for Octal (shocking, I know ;) I like it enough. It doesn’t look quite as nice as MiniHack did, but it’s pretty good and way better than the competition.
- mft_ 5y agoMe too - by chance I was an early adopter and am now kindly grandfathered in to the fully functional app, it seems. Only thing I wish for is better handling of my comment history: it would be good to have a threaded view of old comments and any replies (as on the website) and maybe even the option to be notified of a reply.