Best Hacker News client for iOS?
5 by qubex | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I've encountered some grief finding a suitable Hacker News client for iOS (iPhone and iPad), which is bizarre because a cursory search on the App Store reveals so many of them. My (if I may say so myself) fairly basic criteria are that the app I choose must function both on iPhone (preferably optimised for iPhone X) and iPad and allow me to log into my account to comment as myself. This has turned out to be quite a chore. I've tried free, paid, in-app-purchase, and subscription-based (!) apps. They tend to suck quite diffusely: many do not support logging into one's account of those that purportedly do, many return an (inappropriate) authentication error (and are so >1 year old, so I suppose some change in the login API some time ago caused this state of affairs and that the apps have languished unmaintained since then). “Boreal” is particularly infuriating as it requires a subscription to log into one's account and to read more than 75 stories per week, and once paid for doeen't log in anyway. I've settled on the free MiniHack as being the best one so far, and it comes extraordinarily close to meeting all my criteria (the only shortfall is lack of optimisation for iPhone X's screen, and lack of notifictions). “Hacker Buzz” is the newest and looks graphically very promising, but doesn't support login. I haven't heard back from the developer I tried to contact through the feedback form either. What apps do you recommend? (For various reasons, I'm not really a fan of using the web-browser, so please don't go down the “just use the webpage” route... of course one can use the webpage, but I'm looking for stand-alone app solutions.) Thanks.
5 by qubex | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I've encountered some grief finding a suitable Hacker News client for iOS (iPhone and iPad), which is bizarre because a cursory search on the App Store reveals so many of them. My (if I may say so myself) fairly basic criteria are that the app I choose must function both on iPhone (preferably optimised for iPhone X) and iPad and allow me to log into my account to comment as myself. This has turned out to be quite a chore. I've tried free, paid, in-app-purchase, and subscription-based (!) apps. They tend to suck quite diffusely: many do not support logging into one's account of those that purportedly do, many return an (inappropriate) authentication error (and are so >1 year old, so I suppose some change in the login API some time ago caused this state of affairs and that the apps have languished unmaintained since then). “Boreal” is particularly infuriating as it requires a subscription to log into one's account and to read more than 75 stories per week, and once paid for doeen't log in anyway. I've settled on the free MiniHack as being the best one so far, and it comes extraordinarily close to meeting all my criteria (the only shortfall is lack of optimisation for iPhone X's screen, and lack of notifictions). “Hacker Buzz” is the newest and looks graphically very promising, but doesn't support login. I haven't heard back from the developer I tried to contact through the feedback form either. What apps do you recommend? (For various reasons, I'm not really a fan of using the web-browser, so please don't go down the “just use the webpage” route... of course one can use the webpage, but I'm looking for stand-alone app solutions.) Thanks.
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