A few thoughts:<p>When on the comments page, I'd expect tapping the title to take me to the article, but it doesn't.<p>The child comment touch target is all the way to the far right, which is at the edge of the touch region on the new larger phones. Feels a bit awkward. Maybe make the entire comment the touch target for that?<p>Not a fan of the big black back arrow. I know it goes away, but as you scroll, it is right where you want to start reading, and feels a bit distracting. Maybe just tone it down a bit?<p>There's a little bit of stuttering as you scroll, which is surprising for a text list. I'm guessing it's a bug rather than actual performance issues.
Speaking of these things, what became of the plan to launch a revamped HN with mobile-friendly markup?<p>"Our goal is to switch to a new rendering engine (still powered by Arc) in three weeks (Oct 28)" from the API announcement at <a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api" rel="nofollow">http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api</a>.
Actually, I have had an iOS app using the client out for about 3 weeks. It was meant to be a tutorial on how to use Couchbase Lite to consume APIs. However, it's going through a complete rewrite to make it full featured. I use it to consume Hacker News. I have a version that allows me to sort and hide stories I've already read that is waiting for approval.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/wrkstrm/HelveticaNeue" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wrkstrm/HelveticaNeue</a><p>App Store: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/id931789125?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/i...</a>
If anyone else is looking for a better iOS client (native or not), I'm using HackerWeb (<a href="http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb" rel="nofollow">http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb</a>). It's pretty nice, and ironically feels more native than the native apps I've tried. Here's a bookmarklet to open the current HN page in HackerWeb:<p><pre><code> javascript:var%20a=/%5B0-9%5D+/.exec(location.href);var%20n=a%5Ba.length-1%5D;location.href='http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/%23/item/'+n</code></pre>
The large font and design is nice but i prefer HakkaNews for being able to comment and change feeds from Top to New etc. Add the swipe right sidebar with those features and youve got a winner!
Loving it so far! Great job.<p>One small request, though. It'd be awesome to collapse comment threads. Any chance of that happening?<p>Edit: Nevermind. You have the comments setup so you only see the top level and have to tap to see the child comments. Don't think I've seen that before but I dig it.
I like this new client! Good work. It's refreshing to see an HN client with a 2014 era UI. I also love that it's Open Source.<p>Couple of items of feedback for you.<p>#1 Please make the top off-white colour bar go away; it's jarring on an otherwise all-white background. The most tasteful looking iOS 7 / 8 era apps I enjoy are the ones that make the iOS info bar blend with the rest of the screen real estate.<p>#2 Once inside an article, the black back circle isn't very pretty, or easy to hit. This needs some work since it just looks a little overlaid and unpleasant. I don't have any meaningful suggestions, but I'd suggest this needs some rethinking.<p>All in all, I love it! Thank you.
A few weeks ago I updated my Hacker News iOS client to use the new API:<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-zero/id764890985?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-zero/id764890985...</a>
I haven't been able to comment on a HN submission from a mobile device in god knows how long. I've tried so many apps. not having an orange look just feels odd, but more to the point I constantly find either the apps are great for consumption but not commenting, or the other way aroubd. This app seems to be no exception. The news:yc app was my favourite client until commenting broke. Haven't had a response from the developer since. I'm now using Hakka News but "no orange" is very strange.
Made my own (iphone/ipad) implementation(swift/open source) of firebase too: <a href="http://portablerobot.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/hackyto-available-on-app-store/" rel="nofollow">http://portablerobot.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/hackyto-availa...</a><p>I did wanted to support the live update, but I rather let the user decide when to spend their data.<p>Nice work!
Maybe it's better on an iPhone 6, but there's a lot more scrolling than most other iOS news apps. It's pretty and all, but I'll take a bit of ugly to be able to see more than three headlines at once.