Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by dividedbyzero on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:27AM (#31823027)

My pet peeves: No dark mode, sorely lacking for me for reading in the dark, then there is no indication at all that you've got replies (at least a tiny number next to threads perhaps?) and the up/downvote buttons are too small to reliably tap on mobile. Oh, and enumeration support would be fantastic, the workarounds tend to be hard to read.

Other than that, I think it's delightfully ugly and lightweight.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by kazinator on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:35PM (#31825917)

I use the Dark Reader extension for Firefox; HN looks fine under that.

Having to separately configure individual sites or web apps for dark mode is a nonstarter anyway; if you could do that, would you really want to?

Ideally, you should be able to set your device to dark mode, and everything would follow: every app, every site in the browser.

Some combination of setting your OS to dark mode and using a dark mode extension in the browser sort of approximates that, imperfectly.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by SirAiedail on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:01PM (#31829592)

No need to set it per individual page. There are (arguably easy to use) ways for a web page to know the user's OS-level color scheme preference [0].

We still need the workaround via extensions or Userstyles for the ones that don't implement that, sadly.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by PickledHotdog on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:33AM (#31823077)

You may not be down for an app/mobile experience, but Harmonic is beautiful and has a dark mode

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by dividedbyzero on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:15AM (#31823539)

I can't seem to find Harmonic in the iOS App Store, is it Android-only?

Also, HN apps tend to make it harder to send interesting things to Roam or the laptop or Safari's reading list, the website makes that really convenient.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by russelg on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:51AM (#31823952)

Thanks for the recommendation, just switched to it!

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