User Reviews: Starling for HN

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  • Comment crash

    It crashes every time I post a comment, but the comment does submit successfully so it does “work”.
  • Crashes on each comment and lacks support

    I have been using this app for a few months. In general it’s a good app and most stories from HN can be read. Some stories, however, never load the comments. The app also seems to crash every time I try to submit a comment. Whether the comment actually posts is hit or miss. I made the mistake of writing out a 4-5 paragraph comment, only to have it crash and all the text disappear into the ether. My fault for not selecting all and copying before each comment attempt I suppose. Prior to submitting this review, I clicked on the “App support” link so I could report it to the app author, but it just returned a 404 from GitHub. So it seems like this is just a side project with little active development.
  • Only a few improvements

    Upvoting-downvoting comments and exporting the bookmarks list (to JSON or CSV) is all I need to make this five stars. Hands down beats pretty much every other HN client on the App Store.
  • Add posts — would love this ability!

    Great. But... want to add posts
  • Great app with great defaults

    Only thing I would like to see is being able to make posts and upvote comments.

    I did turn off the open links in reader view since I can use the amazing article summary tool when I want a glimpse and open the full link when I want to see it all but I understand wanting to avoid possible adds etc
  • Fantastic!

    This is my go to reader for hacker news. There are only two changes I’d love to see.

    1) allow navigation of articles from the bottom for one handed use. Eg. going back should be on the bottom for big phones
    2) have some sort of delay before launching external links, because scrolling is especially tedious when comments have lots of links

    Other than that it’s 100!
  • Can’t login

    When trying to sign in, it fails and a red banner appears at the very top of the screen.

    Can’t read the banner. The app itself is very nice
  • Can’t Login

    Client looks awesome but login fails, and the error message doesn’t display properly on the screen so it’s unreadable. Will happily change my rating if this gets resolved

    Developer Response

    I haven’t seen this issue before but I’ll look into it! Thanks for reporting this

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