Re:Show HN: Tired of Bad News? Meet SentiNews (Android)
by ideonexus on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:54AM
(#13960791)
I really appreciate this idea, but is there a reason is has to be an app? I check all news through the browser (phone and desktop), and I'm leery of installing an app to read news. I think such a concept would make a great website though.
Re:Show HN: Tired of Bad News? Meet SentiNews (Android)
by kwhitefoot on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:28AM
(#13967505)
Not sure that there is much of a market for good news If there were then surely the existing news media would make more effort to disseminate it.
And it's not a particularly stunning implementation either. There is no help, no documentation at all.
Next to the thumbs up and down buttons is an icon for something else but it is not described anywhere. What is it supposed to do?
As usual when used in landscape mode it wastes a lot of screen area, looks like it was only ever tested on a mobile phone.
Interesting idea but I would want to have some influence on the choice of story, perhaps by voting a story up or down, before I would make much use of it.
Still love the idea of this kind of product, will read!
And it's not a particularly stunning implementation either. There is no help, no documentation at all.
Next to the thumbs up and down buttons is an icon for something else but it is not described anywhere. What is it supposed to do?
As usual when used in landscape mode it wastes a lot of screen area, looks like it was only ever tested on a mobile phone.
Interesting idea but I would want to have some influence on the choice of story, perhaps by voting a story up or down, before I would make much use of it.