Show HN: 8chen – a beautiful, fast Hacker News client for iOS
itunes.apple.comThanks for crafting and sharing 8chen, Daniel - very easy to read, parse, and share.
Would it be possible to add an option to disable the animations?
Thank you! I can definitely do that when I get some time. Which animations in particular, and why?
> Which animations in particular
All of them ;-)
> and why?
Please pardon my frankness, but they strike me as garish, jarring, and unnecessary. Every time they appear is rather unsettling and distracting, to the point that I've had to switch back to another app.
Again, perhaps it could be an option? I am sure that many would disagree with my assessment.
I appreciate frankness. A lot of the animations are just standard, out of the box iOS animations, like the push/pop navigation between UIViewControllers. I would imagine that most users like and expect these.
Great point. I am certainly behind the times. However, I can only recall seeing textual animations like those in other HN readers, despite having 166 apps installed on my primary iOS device. Happily (for me anyway ;-), MiniHack is free of them.
What's with this app's name when there's already an imageboard site very similarly named 8chan?
Maybe "8chen" because it sounds like "HN"?
Correct! I had no idea "8chan" was a thing either