A feature-rich Hacker News client

Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by microflash on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:07PM (#42626072)

Pretty nice but unfortunately scroll performance is extremely choppy like many other Flutter apps. Also, like many other Flutter apps, it can’t use system font stack. Still, on iOS, this is probably a better option than many other open source clients. On Android, I like Glider[1] and Harmonic[2] a whole lot more.

[1]: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider

[2]: https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by tiltowait on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @03:04PM (#42626756)

Scrolling is extremely smooth on my iPhone 14 Pro.

The app, though, feels like an Android transplant. No tap to scroll to the top, odd widgets, and no rubberband scrolling. The tip bubbles are also very “Google”.

That said, while it’s not for me, it appears to be very solid for Android users (or people who are, to their benefit, less picky than I am).

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by eviks on Thursday January 09, 2025 @12:25AM (#42641909)

> no rubberband scrolling

unfortunately that's not true

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by longstation on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:45PM (#42626530)

I am having a pixel 6a and scroll feels normal.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by slimypi on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:45PM (#42626535)

Harmonic is great. Been using it for years ! Has the best UX/function quality ratio imho.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by chuckwfinley on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:42PM (#42630666)

Harmonic is great, been using it a long time now. Prior to that I used Materialistic... I'll give this other one a try but I've been totally happy with harmonic, so it'll take a lot to move me I think.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by izietto on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:44AM (#42635373)

Same for me!

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by binarysneaker on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:06AM (#42631808)

After looking at the screenshots of this, I came here to say the same. It's gonna take a lot to persuade me to switch from Harmonic.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by simondanerd on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:06PM (#42629755)

Reading (and replying) on Glider. Love it.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by chucklenorris on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:36AM (#42631287)

scroll is smooth for me - android 9 / 6 yo phone

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by dr_kiszonka on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:33AM (#42631607)

Harmonic is nice, but it doesn't always submit stories.

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by dp-hackernews on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @11:20AM (#42635738)

Not much love for Android, so here's and Android option;

https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by wkat4242 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:36PM (#42640261)

I like glider too but they did a redesign at some point which I didn't like (too many buttons taking up space on the screen) so I'm still using the ancient version :)

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Re:A feature-rich Hacker News client by graynk on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:45AM (#42653549)

For iOS I really like Octal. This is where I’m replying from!

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