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Comment · 5 years ago
Any plans to support HTTP authentication?

This is wonderful! It could save us from having to hire an administrative assistant to do manual scraping.

Comment · 14 years ago
What do you think about http://news.ycommentator.com ? It does some HN-enhancement (shows top comments on the front page), but using a server to do all the processing instead of a client script.

I built it a few months ago. If there was any interest, I could expand it to include collapsible comments.

Comment · 14 years ago
An icon to access the sort menu would make the interface a little easier to use. Context meus are nice, but they should be a shortcut to an action rather than the only way to trigger it.

I also noticed that the search box only searches document titles. It would be nice to have it filter document titles as you type, and then perform a full-text search when the user hits enter (like Google's online Drive search).

Awesome app, keep up the good work!

Comment · 14 years ago
This is a great example of a Minimum Viable Product. It has just enough features to be useful (multiple accounts, search, editing) and no more. From the website, they have plans to iterate quickly, with the help of what I'm sure will be a lot of feedback from the initial release. This kind of discipline in feature selection is admirable, and something we should all strive for in app development.

My only critique is that in the new user dialog, the app showed a screenshot of adding an account _before_ the screen where you could actually add an account. I found this a little confusing (why can't I click to add my account now?). I wouldn't mind seeing that screenshot after adding my first account to let me know how to add another.

Comment · 14 years ago
That's a great idea. My preference is to have the comments always expanded so I can skim them quickly, but an expand / collapse feature would increase the app's appeal to people who like the regular HN front page and want quicker access to comments.

Normally collapsed comments with individual expand buttons and an "expand all" button would handle both of our use cases pretty well.

Comment · 14 years ago
The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.

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