A review of all available Hacker News iPad Apps(daniel.hepper.net)
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A review of all available Hacker News iPad Apps
http://daniel.hepper.net/blog/2011/09/a-review-of-all-available-hacker-news-ipad-apps/
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Unfortunately, the situation on the iPad is similar, 2 out of 5 apps are totally useless and the reviews don't really help. That's why I wrote this review.
Try news:yc it's not free, but open source, you can compile it then put it on your phone
Last time I looked through the iPhone clients, they seemed to all be overpriced, and half were abandoned and had one-star reviews saying they didn't work anymore.
My experience on android has been similar. I haven't found a good one, and have given up looking. The ones I've tried are either broken, buggy and feel abandoned, or have an uncomfortable UI.
My experience on android has been similar. I haven't found a good one, and have given up looking. The ones I've tried are either broken, buggy and feel abandoned, or have an uncomfortable UI.
Just curious, but what's wrong with the web version, viewed through Safari?
Or failing that, something like Flipboard?
Or failing that, something like Flipboard?
The links are a bit small to click on comfortably, and the comments are rendered a bit too wide, which makes you have to zoom in and pan to read them.
The Hacker News HD page http://www.welikeinc.com/ says "COMING SOON" for that app...
Well, it is available on the store. I didn't check the support pages, to be honest.
Hacker News HD has been crashing for me for the past two months. The only way I can get it to work (for a day or so) is by uninstalling and reinstalling the app.
That is strange, Hacker News HD works fine for me and never crashed during my tests. I found Hacker News! (the app with the blue icon) to be very unstable.
I presented my findings at the HN Cologne Meetup yesterday evening and one attendant had the same issues with Hacker News HD. I guess I have to revise my conclusions.
I have tried all of them and now I use reeder and I'm very happy with it!
I'm not going to spend $5 on a reader just so it can break when the developer gets tired of it next month. I wish pg would just make a mobile stylesheet, or at least not make it fixed width.