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A month or so ago 7hundredand77 posted nuesbyte here, and many of you liked it but it had some significant problems. I offered to help him with it, and today w

A month or so ago 7hundredand77 posted nuesbyte here, and many of you liked it but it had some significant problems. I offered to help him with it, and today we'd like to show it to you all again. Since then we've rewritten the entire thing in client side js with a nodejs REST API backend, added google reader imports, kb shortcuts, ssl, and a whole bunch of other features. Let us know what you think of the updated site. Here's the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471928 Thanks, Ryan

hamburglar 13y ago
At first glance, it looks great. UI is slightly confusing at first, but nothing I can't get past. Most importantly, it has the primary feature I want in a reader: I can open it up on my phone and read articles in slap-spacebar-to-continue mode until I fall asleep. One-finger operation FTW. Haven't seen this from anyone besides Google Reader yet. Also love the vi-style keyboard nav (j/k for next/prev). One slight complaint: on the desktop, I'd kill the article-expanding animation for navigating through a feed. Instead of a nice clean i'm-scrolling-through-articles feeling, you get this weird jittery i'm-scrolling-through-articles-that-are-expanding-and-collapsing thing where the unexpanded portion of the feed below your current article dances up and down. Even on a feed like HN where the expansion/contraction is fairly minimal (or perhaps particularly on a feed like that), the list ends up doing this strange up-and-down convulsion that's very unpolished-looking and distracting.