app icon doesn’t change
when i changed the app icon, it didnt work. why and i pay 9 bucks lmao
Ads
This app has very intrusive ads. The website has none.
Response from developer
Octal does not contain any ads, and never has.
Worth it
The most iPhone native HN app. I looked around at all others, and this one is just the best designed so it was an easy decision to make the one-off purchase and unlock all features. Though it lacks a few features compared to Hacki, and can run up against API throttling.
Good app with refresh issues
This app is very well made with one issue: when refreshing the feed, the refresh indicator stops immediately, but the feed itself doesn’t refresh until seconds later. The indicator should be active during the full refresh time.
Great HN App but one thing
Quick collapse should be enabled by default. New to iPhone and I almost I uninstalled the app thinking I made the wrong choice. Decided to have one unhopeful look through the settings before uninstalling and thankfully the option was there.
MAKE THE COMMENT HIT TARGET LARGER PLEASE
Overall, as an aggregator - this is a solid app. There is one problem which drives me absolutely crazy: in order to read the comments, which is half the value of HN - hitting the comment button below the article title, you must touch this impossibly tiny hit-box which takes you 4-5 presses and eye-squints to get right. The other 85% of the time you end up opening the article again on your native browser. It's infuriating.
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Favorites are broken
Favorites just don’t show up. Favorite a post and it never shows in the account > favorites section of the app.
Pretty solid app otherwise. Wouldn’t mind seeing some markdown highlighting for comments. A way to select text when you have tap anywhere to collapse comment enabled.
Pretty solid app otherwise. Wouldn’t mind seeing some markdown highlighting for comments. A way to select text when you have tap anywhere to collapse comment enabled.
Excellent app - would love to see rotation bug fixed
Rotating your phone (or carrying it around) while viewing comments closes the story and sends you back to the main list of stories. Someone has reported this on GitHub: #248
Response from developer
This is now fixed
Broken login and likes on iOS 16.0
On iOS 16.0 I can log in and see my own profile, but if I try to like or favorite anything I get a “Something went wrong please try again later” error. If I close the app and reopen it, I am signed out and have to sign back in.
EDIT: Just kidding it’s because I turned on HN’s “noprocrast” setting… that’s what I get for trying to be more productive. 😂
EDIT: Just kidding it’s because I turned on HN’s “noprocrast” setting… that’s what I get for trying to be more productive. 😂
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Love this app
Minor bug: editing a comment works but gives an error that something went wrong.
