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by mvf4z7 529 days ago
I used to use a client app like this. But after I switched phones, I never re-downloaded it and have found that using the browser works just as good for such a simple application.
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I'd love actually an "app" that was just the bookmark manager for launching the browser.

Chrome, firefox, etc on android all either push me to use piles of shortcut icons w/folders (cluttered and exhausting to manage), or click through a hierarchical menu thats 20 clicks away.

You can always just "Saved to home screen" from Chrome on mobile, and then create a shortcut folder with your collection of "web" apps. I've been doing this for the past couple years for a few local restaurants that use Square for direct online ordering, in order to shortcut the link to their ordering site.
This would be great! Especially if it could sync bookmarks from multiple browsers. And URLs could be custom set to open in a non-default browser.
maybe it's just mobile safari, but hacker news in the browser on mobile is unusable for me.
What's the problem? It's almost perfect on android, for me.
Text links/buttons are terribly small, almost impossible to click. Text is too small too, but manageable. And of course mobile browser don't just let you zoom like on a PC
> And of course mobile browser don't just let you zoom like on a PC

You absolutely can. Press button to the left of URL bar (don't know how it is called, where you can also enter reader mode) and at the bottom you'll find 100%. Press it and you'll have to A buttons that allow you to scale.

There's more than one browser. And neither the default chromium-esque browser in GrapheneOS nor Firefox let me do anything like that.(Firefox surely has some plugin but that's besides the point)
> maybe it's just mobile safari

?

Text works ok for me (you also can zoom in iOS Safari in the "tab menu" bar button!), but I've definitely downvoted things I've been meaning to upvote when reading on a shaky bus/train.
I’ve been reading hacker news only through hckrnews.com for years and never looked back
Thanks! Never knew about that one!
I love hckrnews! I even cloned it to tailor it to how I use it[1]. Still working on filters and point threshold.

[1] https://hnr.app

Is there a way to search?
Does it? It doesn't even notify you of new replies.
I've come to view this as a feature, personally. It means I'm a lot slower to respond to things, but it helps me to avoid getting drawn into heated conversations.
+1, it's definitely a feature, not a bug.

Getting a push notification or just seeing a little red badge makes me optimize for "be the first to answer". Seeing responses in a polling/async way means I can take a breath, read others' answers, and only respond if somebody else hasn't made the same point already anyway.

I run a service that does that: https://hackernewsalerts.com
I actually got it last night from someone else reaching out and that's why I was alerted to this, haha. Cheers!
It's not a dating site.
What's this even mean?
Why not?
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