Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?

6 pointsalexhjones13y ago4 comments

Any suggestions?

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I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app...

I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

weiran13y ago

Thanks for the hat tip.

I did think about implementing comments like Reddit / Alien Blue, but I found that it involved too much scrolling up and down and having a button at the bottom reduced that.

xauronx13y ago

No problem.

My big problem with the tiered implementation is that it only really works until like 4 tiers deep. After that you have a long column of text. I haven't really found a solution for that except a "View replies" that pushes another view controller with that comment at the top tier. Seems clunky though.

alexhjonesOP13y ago

Thanks. I like the way the 'Alien Blue' iPhone app does it but it doesn't seem like there's a HN app which does the same.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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xauronx13y ago

I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.

weiran13y ago

Thanks for the hat tip.

I did think about implementing comments like Reddit / Alien Blue, but I found that it involved too much scrolling up and down and having a button at the bottom reduced that.

xauronx13y ago

No problem.

alexhjonesOP13y ago

Thanks. I like the way the 'Alien Blue' iPhone app does it but it doesn't seem like there's a HN app which does the same.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse