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Show HN: HackerScroll, A simple and clean inline Hacker News submissions reader

20 points by ksdme9 5y ago

skr5 5y ago
Nice! Great work!
tadbit 5y ago
Very nice. Just missing a dark mode.
- slickdork 5y ago
  Agreed on dark mode! It looks good with dark reader though. [0] [0]https://darkreader.org/ https://darkreader.org/
auraham 5y ago
Awesome piece of code!
CodingPoem 5y ago
Looks great!
motoxpro 5y ago
This is incredible. Nice work. Would love to see the number of comments/upvotes
pimlottc 5y ago
Why is it necessary to permanently reserve ~10% of the available screen space to show the name of the app and a GitHub link?
- ibdf 5y ago
  I agree. There's no need for a sticky header here.
- ksdme9 5y ago
  I am going to switch it out to sticky the post information and the collapse button.
  - ksdme9 5y ago
    This feature is now live! Give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback.
udbhavs 5y ago
Nice, I was wondering how it would embed twitter links but those submissions seem to be hidden by default
- ksdme9 5y ago
  HackerScroll already detects and embeds YouTube links, I am going to look into doing the same with Twitter links.
  - udbhavs 5y ago
    It might be useful to load the pages using the Nitter front end instead too
superasn 5y ago
Very nice work and good design. I'd prefer if the expand button was on the right on mobile as it makes it easy to reach it with the thumb but no biggie. Also a similar collapse for viewing the top level comments can be a wonderful idea.
d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
I like the fact that you can expand the content of link submissions. I wish my fav HN reader app Octal (iOS) had this feature. On the other hand, to read comments with HackerScroll you have to go the original page ( which is less pleasant to read), whereas with Octal comments are laid out really nicely.
- ericlewis 5y ago
  My iOS hn reader has a quick read functionality. Been thinking of adding this feature, would be happy to add you to the TestFlight if you want to try it out.
  - d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
    I may have missed it in the comments… which HN reader app is that? Wondering if it would be better than Octal in some way
  - d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
    Realized you were actually taking about Octal - yes that feature would be great to have. I’ll wait for a new version
schleck8 5y ago
Looks beautiful
tnsittpsif 5y ago
Loved the concept, but there's too much white-space, lot's of screen real-estate lost. On my MacBook Pro 16-inches, I can see 12 stories on HS while on HN, I can see 27 at one go. I am not saying the UI needs to be as dense as it is on `news.ycombinator.com` but it can be much more denser than what it is right now. Also, +1 for dark mode, although, DarkReader works quite well for now!

20 points by ksdme9 5y ago

skr5 5y ago

Nice! Great work!

tadbit 5y ago

Very nice. Just missing a dark mode.

slickdork 5y ago
Agreed on dark mode! It looks good with dark reader though. [0] [0]https://darkreader.org/ https://darkreader.org/

auraham 5y ago

Awesome piece of code!

CodingPoem 5y ago

Looks great!

motoxpro 5y ago

This is incredible. Nice work. Would love to see the number of comments/upvotes

pimlottc 5y ago

Why is it necessary to permanently reserve ~10% of the available screen space to show the name of the app and a GitHub link?

ibdf 5y ago
I agree. There's no need for a sticky header here.
ksdme9 5y ago
I am going to switch it out to sticky the post information and the collapse button.
- ksdme9 5y ago
  This feature is now live! Give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback.

udbhavs 5y ago

Nice, I was wondering how it would embed twitter links but those submissions seem to be hidden by default

ksdme9 5y ago
HackerScroll already detects and embeds YouTube links, I am going to look into doing the same with Twitter links.
- udbhavs 5y ago
  It might be useful to load the pages using the Nitter front end instead too

superasn 5y ago

Very nice work and good design. I'd prefer if the expand button was on the right on mobile as it makes it easy to reach it with the thumb but no biggie. Also a similar collapse for viewing the top level comments can be a wonderful idea.

d4rkp4ttern 5y ago

I like the fact that you can expand the content of link submissions. I wish my fav HN reader app Octal (iOS) had this feature. On the other hand, to read comments with HackerScroll you have to go the original page ( which is less pleasant to read), whereas with Octal comments are laid out really nicely.

ericlewis 5y ago
My iOS hn reader has a quick read functionality. Been thinking of adding this feature, would be happy to add you to the TestFlight if you want to try it out.
- d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
  I may have missed it in the comments… which HN reader app is that? Wondering if it would be better than Octal in some way
- d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
  Realized you were actually taking about Octal - yes that feature would be great to have. I’ll wait for a new version

schleck8 5y ago

Looks beautiful

tnsittpsif 5y ago

Loved the concept, but there's too much white-space, lot's of screen real-estate lost. On my MacBook Pro 16-inches, I can see 12 stories on HS while on HN, I can see 27 at one go. I am not saying the UI needs to be as dense as it is on `news.ycombinator.com` but it can be much more denser than what it is right now. Also, +1 for dark mode, although, DarkReader works quite well for now!