Haxplore
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2021
603points
243comments
#33of 2,533 in 2021
Top 2%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
52 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 26 mixed, 28 critical, out of 141 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Design: 24 for, 13 againstExecution: 4 for, 10 againstIdea: 11 for, 3 againstPerformance: 3 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Smooth animations and fast response time
From 3 comments
I particularly like the response time (low latency). It's underappreciated in web design.
WithinReason on HNWell done, works perfectly on Firefox 92 on Fedora 34. The smooth animations & responsiveness to key-presses are spot on! Can we please have Dark Mode?
BatteryMountain on HNThis looks great! The animations are smooth, and the details seem to load fast. How about you try a specific subreddit?
crhutchins on HN
Intuitive keyboard controls
From 2 comments
This was surprisingly pleasant to use. Such intuitive controls and sane default behaviors. Usually HN clones are a dime a dozen, but this one is a cut above for sure. The only…
umvi on HNWell done, works perfectly on Firefox 92 on Fedora 34. The smooth animations & responsiveness to key-presses are spot on! Can we please have Dark Mode?
BatteryMountain on HN
Clean, well-designed interface
From 2 comments
Can you please avoid blurring the prior column (or at least the comment you came from)? It's useful to see context that way. Otherwise I think it's really good. Reddit should…
smallerfish on HNWow this is really cool and well designed. Sorry for this simple question but what did you use to get the nice sliding like animation? Is that intentional or just a result of…
dkatz23238 on HN
Objections
Low information density compared with HN
From 2 comments
This was surprisingly pleasant to use. Such intuitive controls and sane default behaviors. Usually HN clones are a dime a dozen, but this one is a cut above for sure. The only…
umvi on HNI can't open comments on firefox. hitting O does nothing. Opening new links also opens them in a popup window rather than a new tab, so firefox blocks those by default too.…
asdff on HN
Hotkeys conflict with browser shortcuts such as Alt+H in Firefox
From 2 comments
This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the…
pramodbiligiri on HNI love this but alt + H doesn't work on Firefox
Invictus0 on HN
Poor mobile support
From 2 comments
Cool idea, but not very Mobile friendly
drKarl on HNWhy are you blurring the previous row? Why are you disabling scrolling? These are hostile to the user.
soheil on HN
Missing dark mode
From 3 comments
Well done, works perfectly on Firefox 92 on Fedora 34. The smooth animations & responsiveness to key-presses are spot on! Can we please have Dark Mode?
BatteryMountain on HNReally nice, fancy doing a dark mode version? Also I didn't quite get how I was supposed to see comments
jack_riminton on HNI'd just ask for a dark theme based on the browser's preferences.
ktzar on HN
Requests
Dark mode
From 3 comments
Well done, works perfectly on Firefox 92 on Fedora 34. The smooth animations & responsiveness to key-presses are spot on! Can we please have Dark Mode?
BatteryMountain on HNReally nice, fancy doing a dark mode version? Also I didn't quite get how I was supposed to see comments
jack_riminton on HNI'd just ask for a dark theme based on the browser's preferences.
ktzar on HN
Show comment counts and paragraph breaks correctly
From 1 comment
This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the…
pramodbiligiri on HN
Page up and page down support
From 2 comments
Can you please avoid blurring the prior column (or at least the comment you came from)? It's useful to see context that way. Otherwise I think it's really good. Reddit should…
smallerfish on HNFirst of all, congratulations on shipping it! It's pretty cool. Some feelings I had while using it, just in case it's useful to you: - To me is a bit strange than when I'm…
kuu on HN
Support for Reddit
From 2 comments
This looks great! The animations are smooth, and the details seem to load fast. How about you try a specific subreddit?
crhutchins on HNI love it. I would kill for one for reddit too.
shpongled on HN
Remember read position and mark read stories
From 2 comments
It would be nice if there were a way for it to "remember" where I left off, or filter stories I've already scrolled past out of the list when I come back.
tartuffe78 on HNI'd love if: * the site marked when I had already clicked a link * the site respected URLs so I can easily share links * I can read older HN links in your interface
Invictus0 on HN
Questions
What tech stack is used?
From 1 comment
Nice. What's the tech stack?
didip on HN
Is the source available?
From 1 comment
Nice App. I was trying to create some web-UI like this to read my own dump of bookmarks/notes on various devices. What language/frameworks did you use for the web UI? Is the…
cvs268 on HN
Alternatives named
Hacker News website
From 2 comments
Bookmarked. I hope you continue working on it! The biggest hurdle for me would be to remember to go here instead of news.ycombinator.com though
throwoutway on HNThis was surprisingly pleasant to use. Such intuitive controls and sane default behaviors. Usually HN clones are a dime a dozen, but this one is a cut above for sure. The only…
umvi on HN
Vim-style text browsers such as lynx
From 1 comment
Nice. I use vimium-firefox as a default and it is not working. Focusing on one comment at the time is changing the adequate contextual dynamic of relational scanning. All of this…
nbzso on HN
Vimium browser extension
From 1 comment
Nice. I use vimium-firefox as a default and it is not working. Focusing on one comment at the time is changing the adequate contextual dynamic of relational scanning. All of this…
nbzso on HN