HackerWeb - Hacker News client Customer Service & App Reviews

HackerWeb - Hacker News client Customer Service
HackerWeb - Hacker News client App Comments & Reviews (2024)
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HackerWeb is a super-clean Hacker News app built for maximum readability and has a lean set of features to optimize the reading experience.

It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it feels native and blends well with the operating system.

It has a simple set of features that are usually invisible:

- Dual Web and Comments tabs for easy switching between the story’s web page and the list of comments
- Revolutionary comments thread UI for easy navigation, with smart collapsing to prevent being overwhelmed by too many comments
- Automatic Dark mode, respecting the system’s appearance settings.
- Smart indentations and formatting for comments, complementing the existing limited formatting from Hacker News.
- Automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks in comments, with best-effort programming language detection.
- Allow interactions like upvoting and replying, which opens up web view with login information and sessions stored in itself, instead of the app.
- Comment’s “Thread view” to list all parent comments of a comment, on a flat list, for easy reading instead of manually drilling down the nested comments.
- “Share as Image” for comments, which allows sharing of a specific comment, optionally including the parent comments and/or story, as an image.

HackerWeb is an unofficial Hacker News client, built with React Native and Expo.

This is a passion side project for learning and experimenting ideas. Since 2012.

Open-sourced: https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2

HackerWeb - Hacker News client App Comments & Reviews

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HackerWeb - Hacker News client Positive Reviews

Huge potentialI've been reading Hacker News for years now and am growing increasingly frustrated at their lack of usability and modern design. HackerWeb is already an improvement by letting me collapse comments. I think it's got a ways to go but I see some huge potential to offer such an improved experience that people would be stupid not to use it..Andrew919191Version: 1.1

By far the best Hacker News clientEasily the best Hacker News client available, highly recommend the web app version as well. The interface is a huge improvement over Hacker News itself, and lacks any of the clutter of other clients..JkotzkerVersion: 1.1

Clean and crisp and sharp and amazingIt's a web app. But you'd NEVER know because it's amazing work. Work like this deserves your money and time. This has been my go-to app since the start. Brilliant..GlucopilotVersion: 1.1

Simple and good.I’m an avid reader of HN, despite that I really dislike their UX for threading replies on their website. When I found the HackerWeb.App PWA I switched it and never came back. Recently I found you published an iOS Native one, I think I still like the PWA better but I love the cool threading style on this one. It also performs better than the PWA. The ability to switch between webview and comments view is phenomenal too — definitely a great feature add that lacks in the PWA version. When I saw this was open source, I considered building it myself and having it for free, but then I realized how I used the PWA for free for many years and how it would take me time to build and maintain the iOS one just to save a couple bucks. Shame on me, glad to purchase and finally give back to you who made my experience reading HN better. Thank you @cheeaun !.Filipe.herculanoVersion: 2.1.0

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