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by acemarke 2477 days ago
Pretty nice!

I've been using com.premii.hn 6.0.6 (which, now that I check, actually no longer appears to be in the Play store).

The main thing yours appears to be missing is the ability to reply directly to a comment.

Other requested UI tweaks:

- Highlight the username of the OP when they comment

- Add downvote button

- Add toolbar buttons to toggle directly between comment view and article view
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getdreambits 2477 days ago
com.premii.hn was my favorite too; it worked surprisingly well given that it was webview based. But, as you said, it's been taken off the Play store and not getting any more updates.

Re. your feedback:

Replying to comments directly can be done by long pressing the title of the comment you want to reply to, which brings up other options as well.

I'll consider your suggestions for UI tweaks, but is downvoting even possible? Or did you want an option to hide a story/comment only within the app?

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acemarke 2477 days ago
Downvoting is _definitely_ possible on HN once you have enough karma.

Didn't know about the long-pressing, which is a result of long-pressing not being a user-visible action. Replying to a comment is definitely worth its own per-comment button at a minimum.

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acemarke 2476 days ago
After playing with it a bit more, refreshing comments seems to be iffy. I had this specific thread open when there were only 6 or 7 comments, and tried hitting Refresh repeatedly later when there were about 10 comments visible in my desktop browser. None of the new comments showed up, even when I backed out to the threads list. I think they only appeared after I did a complete refresh of the threads list and reopened this thread.

Overall, though, it's pretty good and I want to switch over - just feels like it needs a bit more polish first.

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getdreambits 2476 days ago
Thanks for trying it out. What you saw might be due to over-aggressive caching, which generally is used to provide a fast experience even under bad network conditions.

Manually refreshing should actually do a full fetch so it sounds like a bug, which I'll look into.

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