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by adhamsalama 78 days ago
It's hard for me to debug this because I don't have a Paperwhite 7. I assume it's a JS compatibility issue but not where the exact root cause.

Since the reader is Open Source, can you run it on your machine and view it on your local network to debug and tell me what's the issue so that I can fix it?
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pentanide 74 days ago
On Kindle 7’s outdated WebKit, both feed loading and article opening failed because the code relied on Set and DOM properties(too modern) that were missing, causing “undefined is not an object/function” errors. I could fix it by adding defensive null/type checks across DOM and helper functions, and implementing a full Set polyfill (has, add, delete, clear, forEach) to ensure compatibility without changing the existing logic. Now that I'm checking, the Hacker News articles don't correctly load. Only shows the URL.
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adhamsalama 72 days ago
It would be great if you opened an issue on GitHub (or a PR) so we can fix this. I definitely want this to work on all Kindles including older models. Thank you.
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