Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting)

Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by colkassad on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:31PM (#2140708)

The web still sucks for phones. The formatting is better in apps and it runs faster than the browser. I don't have to double tap text to bring it to human readable size or deal with lag when scrolling. Until phone browsers and/or web sites catch up, apps such as this provide a lot of relief.

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Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by micampe on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:50PM (#2140796)

HN is unreadable even on a desktop browser, that's not a client fault. I read it on ihackernews.com

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Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by StavrosK on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:40PM (#2141250)

I half agree, half disagree with you. The web doesn't suck for phones, the websites suck for phones. If websites use a fluid layout or a mobile layout, nobody has to write an app for them. Posterous is great to read on mobiles due to their theme.

I hope more companies start using those tricks that let websites resize gracefully on any size screen, so you don't even need a mobile theme. Your layout just adjusts gracefully to the screen.

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Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by colkassad on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @06:04PM (#2141337)

Sorry, by "web" I meant websites. Mobile layouts are nice when they are implemented correctly. The worst case is when a mobile version routes your request to a default landing page rather than the requested article or whatever or strips out functionality that exists in the regular version.

I expect that things will only improve as more people access the web via mobile devices. I think I use my phone more than a standard computer these days.

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Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by StavrosK on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @06:34PM (#2141438)

Yes, I think we're agreeing, but, to clarify, I meant that it's not websites in general (as in, the technology) that sucks, but particular websites (most of them) which haven't correctly implemented mobile-friendly versions.

We are agreeing, though, yes.

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Re:Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and comm... by trezor on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @04:16AM (#2142706)

By far my favourite are websites which detects you are on a mobile device and then (automatically, no questions asked, no override available) "redirects" you to what is supposedly the same content on their mobile site.

And then the mobile site crashes for whatever reason? Malformed URL? Heck if I know. I just know I can't get to the website.

It also seems a lot of websites has a "standard" mobile-version (which is basically some iPhone-app like standard theme) which also always crashes when visited. Might be a WP-plugin, but I'm honestly not sure. 90% of the time though, it crashes and it wont let you go to the original web-page either.

Really. Until the web gets better at dealing with mobile devices, you will see applications like this being popular.

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