Available on f-droid- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
I suspect it's some kind of recursion thing going on where I'm already in the app assigned to HN URLs.?
The link problem is also the only annoyance I have. Sadly it looks like many issues have been opened for the bug but I don't see any discussion on the tickets: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...
When looking at a comment from a user profile and viewing the thread, it only shows the chain of parents, and no replies to the comment (much less any replies to the parents).
Several top level navigation options (most notably 'threads' and 'past') have no representation in the app's navigation menu.
Many sites don't display in the 'article' tab at all, they have to be opened in a browser.
Some sites that do display are squashed vertically, though this can be remedied by maximizing the article.
I browse HN every day to read good tech posts and comments but I'm a very anxious person (especially these days of course) and seeing articles about death, cancers and other things make me start the day quite badly.
I know this is not a solution to ignore this, I should fight it, but I would gladly like to see (sub-)categories or tags on HN to browse wisely what I'm interesting in.
[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-keyword-filter/...
I don't watch any network news and I'm much happier for it. Seeing lots of horrible stuff that you can't do anything about is not healthy. It's the same with bad stuff in your social media feeds.
It's not perfect as conversations evolve away from the articles. But it would be useful I think.
That rationale just leads to even more groupthink than usual for an online community.
naive heuristics are also gamed more easily, especially because they have a tenous relationship to the desired signal in the first place.
slightly more interesting would be absolute value of comment sentiment, which would be a (still naive) measure of controversy/engagement. to really get at quality and value, you'd have to consider comment semiotics/semantics (the symbolic meaning and content), which complicates the effort exponentially (perhaps impossibly so).
I have developed a similar extension for facebook feed.
It's an open source Postgres FDW using Go - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-hackernews
Whenever there's a deep tree, I sometimes find it hard to know what comment people are replying to. A better visual indicator of the depth of the comments would be nice as well.
javascript:(function(){var i,x=document.querySelectorAll(".commtext");for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) x[i].className='commtext c00'})();I know it's an extra hop, but hopefully better than nothing.
I’d like to make a ‘social media’ version of HN that notifies you every time anyone upvotes your comment or post and generally bugs you in all the ways social media normally does. Just to see what it would be like.