hey. I'd love to hear about these bugs! you can either post them in this thread or email me at grinich@mit.edu. feature requests are also very welcome.
If you can let me know what threads it crashes on, that would be really helpful. I have suspicions that it's actually an issue with the parser, not memory.
I've had it crash on the more "popular" iPad threads recently, where there've been ~193 comments. I'm not sure how much you'd be able to do with this given how HN sends the data.
Doesn't Readability still require the whole thing to be downloaded, which takes ages? Wouldn't it be better to have an option to use the Google reformatter?
I use this as my default way to browse HN from my phone. Typically I don't vote much while on my mobile, so sometimes I'm not logged in through the app. I think it works well. My biggest request would be Instapaper support.
I've been using it on and off for the last week or so. It has a nice interface and works pretty well overall. I do wish it had the ability to copy and paste the URL of the articles or allow you to open the links in a browser other than Safari, such as Atomic Web (which can be called using the atomic:// protocol).
And actually on that note, if you haven't tried Atomic Web, I highly recommend it.
Just a note for you, on your website, when you click the screenshots they show up underneath the demo video that's playing - this is on Win7 Google Chrome.
If Opera started charging $3 for Opera Mini in the App Store, would you be upset? You're paying for a nicer interface to something that is free, not the content of HN.
So just a question is this legal? Taking something that is free and charging for it on the app store. Just a question, because I like it and want to use something like this on my android(going to try http://mhm.gd/hn)
It's legal for the reason that there isn't any law that would make it illegal. But it also isn't charging for something that's free. The charge is for the app's features, not for access to HN.
i like this. there's a really simple free version for the android platform and i would collaborate to improve it if it was a opensource project. Including readability to it is very important.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 94.4 ms ] thread1. Let me pull down the reply field to see the comment I'm replying to. Having to reply blind is frustrating.
2. Figure out how to make it so that I can select text from comments.
Instapaper support would be nice, but not immediately necessary for me.
1) It seems to crash on threads with too many comments... I'm guessing it runs out of RAM, perhaps?
2) I can't log in with my OpenID.
http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/
My only problem is text size. The google reformatter does strip out a lot of the cruft, but I can't say that it's easier to read, which was my goal.
Example, A NYTimes story: http://cl.ly/bC6
I use it on my Android all the time.
I'll be watching this app, though, as it does look nice.
And actually on that note, if you haven't tried Atomic Web, I highly recommend it.
Here's a great blog post about creating iPhone screencasts by Loren Brichter, who made Tweetie (recently acquired by Twitter).
http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...
SimFinder code is on also github; http://github.com/atebits/SimFinger