Hacker News
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2014
128points
81comments
#211of 2,272 in 2014
Top 10%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 12 mixed, 9 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Design: 4 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Responsive design works well on mobile
From 2 comments
And it's responsive!! Awesome. Reading HN on mobile has always been a pain.
briandear on HNProbably the best HN redesign I've seen yet to date. Some light criticism: 1) decrease the padding between each story space, there's juuust a touch too much white space 2) the…
selmnoo on HN
Live score and upvote updates are nice
From 2 comments
Nice! I really like the animations actually. Now all it needs is upvoting and commenting built in (but obviously HN would have to enable that part of the API - which I assume is…
gtf21 on HNNice! The live update is sick! What would make me use this instead of news.ycombinator.com every day however would be: - the ability to hide stories you've already read (some box…
ilzmastr on HN
Objections
Animations and hover effects are distracting
From 4 comments
This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though. My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/. It's lean, fast and looks like a…
nnain on HNI pretty much like it. But the “jumping” on :hover of an topic doesn’t feel that good. So instead of ``` .list-item:hover { margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px; } ``` maybe use…
FabianBeiner on HNLooks nice but I dislike the animations. Also maybe clicking anywhere in a div should open up the comments?
anonfunction on HNLooking good, only the score numbers might be a little too thin, and the margin on hover animation doesn't work for me. It distracts me from reading, becoming a bit annoying.
phazelift on HN
Too much whitespace, shows too few stories
From 3 comments
In the words of Steve Jobs: "That is really ugly, and you're fired". It has that failed Web 3.0 look. More rounded corners, excessive margin, but less content per page. One…
pottspotts on HNProbably the best HN redesign I've seen yet to date. Some light criticism: 1) decrease the padding between each story space, there's juuust a touch too much white space 2) the…
selmnoo on HNLooks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on…
alexggordon on HN
Comments are hard to collapse or close
From 2 comments
Cool! May I suggest two more change. 1) Remove the Underline from the link on hover -- instead, change the color of the font. 2) Add a button to collapse the opened comments…
nnain on HNNice work, I will give it a try for a while! Two points of feedback right of the bat: 1) The added margin animation doesn't really makes sense in my mind and doesn't really feel…
guanche on HN
Requests
Add upvoting and commenting
From 2 comments
Nice! I really like the animations actually. Now all it needs is upvoting and commenting built in (but obviously HN would have to enable that part of the API - which I assume is…
gtf21 on HNBased on the Firebase HN API, I made a web client that updates stories and scores in real-time. No need to refresh your browser anymore to see new stories and comments. Also, I…
antouank on HN
Show more stories per page
From 2 comments
Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on…
alexggordon on HNI like this a lot -- I do wish it was possible to view a few more items at once -- at least on higher-density displays -- but this looks great. Nice job!
filmgirlcw on HN
Collapsible comment threads
From 2 comments
Comments should be able to collapse.
GhotiFish on HN@GhotiFish They are now. :)
antouank on HN
Hide already-read stories
From 1 comment
Nice! The live update is sick! What would make me use this instead of news.ycombinator.com every day however would be: - the ability to hide stories you've already read (some box…
ilzmastr on HN
Questions
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
Is this open-sourced on GitHub?
cheeaun on HN
Alternatives named
HackerWeb
From 2 comments
This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though. My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/. It's lean, fast and looks like a…
nnain on HNNot bad, but I still prefer the “HackerWeb” version when on mobile (http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/).
mproud on HN
MiniHack
From 2 comments
What do you use for posting from mobile? I tried several apps, even a paid one. They either didn't offer login and posting or offered it but it didn't work.
weinzierl on HNLooks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on…
alexggordon on HN
hckrnews.com
From 1 comment
Doesn't beat http://www.hckrnews.com/ for me since that lets me show just the top 50% of stories, top 20%, the front page, etc.
cheshire137 on HN
ihackernews.com
From 1 comment
(not affiliated) I always use http://ihackernews.com/ which has "collapse thread" buttons for comments and a "view on HN" for one-extra-click-to-reply. Use it on the desktop as…
nothrabannosir on HN