Hacker News Reader

It's faster, but still incredulously slow. For example, when you launch it it's just a black rectangle for 3-5 seconds (2018 Macbook Pro). And the UX is all over the place, with 3-4 different ways to go back/close whatever you're looking at. The way you navigate reviews with side-swipes might sense on a phone but makes no sense whatsoever on the Mac.

You can tell it's made to spec and with zero developer love softening the rough corners, because no developer who cares would make a full-screen screenshot view mode you cannot exit with Esc.

>The way you navigate reviews with side-swipes might sense on a phone but makes no sense whatsoever on the Mac.

it makes complete sense, I switched over to mac in 2017 and as I got used to the gestures I tried them everywhere. if i'd found one place where they didn't work I would have abandoned them. the side swipes also work in Netflix on chrome on Mac. I really LOVE this aspect of the mac. gestures are functionally useless on windows coz of the uber patchy support for them....

Looking at the recent news about Marzipan, I'm fairly certain the App Store we got is actually the iOS App Store. There's so many iOS design motif quirks.

Subjectively, yes, I think it is.