[joshstrange]

I wish for a combo of HACK and Octal. I like the UI of Octal more but it doesn’t support notifications nor does it show your comment karma (which isn’t a big deal but it’s a little annoying).

Also Octal has some weird bugs like not removing the downvote button after 24 hours so you just get an odd error when you click it. And the thing that bugs me the most where if you swipe back then change your mind you can’t swipe forward to go back to the comment thread you were on (a la Apollo, RIP). What makes it worse is swiping “forward” changes the “tab” you are on losing your scroll place in the list of HN posts. My muscle memory will never stop doing this though.

[hombre_fatal]

My issues with Octal are that it doesn’t show my reply immediately after posting and worse: it always throws an error when I edit my replies even though the edit worked in the background. It also collapses double spacing on edit sometimes.

It’s a pretty bad app unless you’re just reading. I assume the developer never touched it again after deploying it which wouldn’t be an issue if you didn’t have to pay to unlock comment writing (its worst implemented feature).

[joshstrange]

I completely agree with you. I think you hit the nail on the head, it’s good for reading and not much more. The UI is pretty good but the UX leaves a lot to be desired.

[Obscurity4340]

See I love HACK's UI the most although I agree (if memory is correct that didnt mind or was even nominally impressed on that front) and the dev is super nice and responsive.

[Obscurity4340]

I like that I can "turn it" orange to so it matches