Glider for Hacker News

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4.5
85 reviews
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About this app

Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.

• Browse stories, comments and user profiles
• Catch up on and search stories from any period
• Log in using an existing or new Hacker News account
• Vote on and favorite stories and comments
• Write replies and submit new stories (experimental)
• Collapse comment trees

Source code is available at https://github.com/Mosc/Glider. Don't hesitate to submit an issue if you'd like to see anything improved.

Uses the official Hacker News API hosted on Firebase and the Hacker News Search API provided by Algolia.
Updated on
Jan 1, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.6
82 reviews
Sahil Madan
July 25, 2021
Great app! Very clean look. The search feature in particular is excellent, not only letting you sort by most recent, but also allowing you to limit searches by time period. The only thing I wasn't a fan of is some of the button placements, or lack of buttons in the case of reply. Swipe to reply isn't a common design pattern and hard to discover, especially since the walkthrough doesn't tell you which direction to swipe and swiping also removes the tutorial. Oops. Otherwise, my fav HN app!
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August 20, 2021
The walkthrough is intended to motivate the user to try to interact with the app, but based on the feedback received from multiple people, it wasn't doing a good enough job at that. All the swiping gestures have now also been added to the long-press menu and the overflow menu in the action bar.
Freddie Meyer
September 7, 2021
App features are nice, but the frame rate of the app is <40 fps or lower at times :( Probably because of flutter, but unfortunate because it makes scrolling really annoying and laggy feeling (scroll physics is also a little strange too and feels different than other apps). Would also be cool to see an option to filter certain keywords.
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September 8, 2021
That's fair. I believe I could improve on the occasionally janky rendering with a bit of optimization. I'm also aware of the somewhat odd scroll physics, which I do blame on the Flutter framework. Can you elaborate on the keyword filtering you'd like to see?
Fabio Manganiello
August 20, 2021
EDIT: The new long-click-to-action and context menu features really make the app much more intuitive to use - thank you! I've updated the rating to 4 after finding out that there is a reply feature (swipe on the comment/article), but it's hard to find it and it's not mentioned in the docs. How about a long-press to action or a context menu on article/comment level? I've never seen a swipe-left-to-reply feature in other apps and I don't think it's very intuitive.
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August 20, 2021
Hey! Based on the feedback of multiple people, including you, the sliding actions have now also been added to the long-press menu as well as the overflow menu in the action bar.

What's new

- Added setting to change navigation bar or rail into navigation drawer
- Improved pure background setting to apply to more UI elemeents
- Changed padding between story title and metadata to be a bit tighter
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