Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal

Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by marchelzo on Friday February 05, 2016 @07:55AM (#11041053)

Presumably for the same reason that people prefer native applications on iOS / Android to using web applications in mobile browsers.

This approach allows you to tailor the controls and the display to the specific application, thus creating a more pleasant experience.

Have you tried using HN in lynx?

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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by Derpdiherp on Friday February 05, 2016 @10:13AM (#11041898)

Sure - I tried it out just now, it's fine.

Like any feature rich application, it takes a little time to learn the ins and outs, time saving features and such - but it's very usable for a site like hacker news, you can even navigate via the numbered links on the site.

http://brainstormsandraves.com/reference/lynx/lynxhelpforbeg...

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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by jrcii on Friday February 05, 2016 @11:10AM (#11042321)

I've tried HN on all the major text browsers in the past and they never seem to indent comments correctly. Without proper "spacial nesting" conversations are nearly impossible to follow.

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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by blippe on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:10PM (#11043807)

I use links all the time for HN. It works extremely well.

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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by Touche on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:40AM (#11041260)

I've tried with elinks and it works very well.

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