Trilby for Hacker News v1.6.0
FaiLabAbout this app
Developer Description
An Elegant Way to Experience Hacker News on Your Phone
The app lets you browse and interact with Hacker News the way you want.
It features / lets you:
✅ Browse and read Hacker News - view popular and latest articles.
✅ Beautiful design and typography.
✅ Login to Hacker News, post new stories, comment and interact with others.
✅ Powerful search powered by Algolia, filter to get your desired results.
✅ View yours and others' profiles: see bio and latest activities.
✅ In-app web view when you don't want to leave the app.
✅ Personalize the app the way you want - select your favorite fonts.
✅ Compact Mode when you don't want any distractions.
✅ Meticulously crafted skins and comment themes, auto dark mode.
✅ Open native HN links within the app - look for the Orange links.
✅ Keep track of your read articles.
✅ View single comment threads.
✅ Preview your comment before posting/
✅ ...and countless more.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to contact me: dev@faisalbin.com. I will be happy to implement features and fix bugs as soon as possible.
Disclaimer:
1. I created the app as a hobby project. Trilby is not affiliated with Hacker News.
2. Hacker News does not provide any API to interact with their server - meaning their official API does not supoprt POST requests - AKA login, reply, upvote etc. To enable those features, Trilby uses many clever techniques behind the scene. As with anything of this nature, they are experimental and could be buggy.
3. The app does not store or collect any sensitive user information. In fact, it does not collect any data.
Trilby is made with ❤️ in Munich.
What's New
When you click on the home button, it will now scroll to the top in the post list.
- This also bumps Android API level.
- And other bug fixes.
Version Information
- Version
- 1.6.0
- Downloads
- 5K+
- Updated on
- Jul 13, 2024
- Released
- Feb 14, 2022
- Requires
- Android 6.0
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Trilby for Hacker News users say on Google Play
The only thing missing is the "open this in app" if one goes to a ycombinator in the browser, but I don't know if that's on Trilby or e.g. Firefox
Long time user of HN app by Manuel Maly. One behavior that's annoying to me is the pull to the right on the comments view that reveals the story list view. I find myself activating that quite often without intending to. I think relying on the default go back gesture (swiping left from the right edge of the screen) would make it feel more natural. Having a button to get to comments would feel more natural than tapping on the story card.
App crashes all the time. Does not even start.
I wrote a big fkn comment and then it says not successful