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Comment by dinosaurbone | Hacker News Reader

I use a third party app to get around this. Makes the mobile experience infinitely better in my opinion.

Hacki is the most featureful HN browsing app I've ever used, it's open source too. It really enhances the HN mobile experience.

Any specific app you would recommend?

Harmonic on Android is pretty good

Not available on Github or Fdroid.

I would recommend taking a look for yourself. If I search the App Store for “Hacker News” I see no less than a dozen options. Shouldn’t take more than a minute to look at them and evaluate which one would be best for your needs.

I trust people here more than I trust the App Store algos though.

I'm using Harmonic for Android. Not sure if it's available for iOS. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...

Just installed, thank you.

I'm trying Harmonic right now and it is really lacking in features, sure, the Material You is great but I can't edit my comments or see how many votes a comment/post has (and there is no Inbox?!).

Love the browser concept in it though, never seen anything like it before.

if you're on android materialistic is p good.

I use Octal on iOS/iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...

+1 to Octal being fantastic

I would recommend Hacki: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiaqifeng....

It's the most featureful FOSS Android app for HN, it's UI is a breeze to navigate too (if you enable swipe gestures from the tiny settings!).

On iOS, HACK is my favorite of the several I've tried: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

There's an Android version as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

The pain point for me with Hack is that the vibrations need the pro version to close (or literally anything in the settings).

Thank you — I knew it was free but didn't recall that I'd done the in-app "Premium" purchase. I'd still recommend it for anyone open to non-free (as in beer and/or freedom) apps.

Link please?

Glider on Android is okay.

I love using Glider. What pains me however is how scuffed the commenting feels, and the UI jumps around a lot when opening a post with lots of comments...

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