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by tommasoamici 1119 days ago
Your app looks promising, I quite like the look and feel.

There are some low hanging UX improvements you could work on next: tapping on a story in the feed shows options to go to the comments or to the article, and I wish this could be done with a single tap.

Similarly, when reading comment threads it’s a bit annoying having to open replies one by one. For me, the best threaded discussion reader on iOS is Apollo which shows quite a few replies and goes more than 6 levels deep with indentation without having to tap anywhere.

I can already tell you that the default font size is going to be divisive, especially for readers of HN ;)

I’ll keep this app around and check the change logs to see if it could replace Octal, which I’m using now

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Thank you, I'm really glad you find the UI appealing!

> the best threaded discussion reader on iOS is Apollo

Nested comment design have been a weakness of mine and it certainly shows in Hazumi. I want to revamp comments so badly, showing a batch of nested comments in one tap or by default does sound better. A general theme I've been hearing here is "less taps to get to the content the better". 100% noted!

> the default font size is going to be divisive

I ended up using the default `body` size from SwiftUI but if you mean it would be more appealing if smaller, then I could add a text sizing slider to the settings.

Thank you again for trying out Hazumi and giving your feedback!