Wow. The stuff that Embedly is doing is all kinds of awesome. I just wish Twitter would buy them so I didn't have to resort to manual hacks to actually use them.
Very nice. My only feature suggestion would be a way to hide articles, something I wish HN itself could do but perhaps more important when articles take up more vertical space.
This is gorgeous, nicely done. I find myself wanting a better way of going to the next story, because some articles are very long. Maybe you could add controls? For example, keyboard shortcuts or a floating "next" button (anchored with fixed position CSS).
I just added two more hotkeys. Here's what we have:
j or right-arrow - down
k or left-arrow - up
c - toggle top comment
d - toggle article content
enter - follow article link
shift+enter - open article link in new tab
It's trivial features like this that seriously gets me to switch. The main reason why I switched to duckduckgo wasn't the privacy or better results, it was vi-like bindings.
On that topic, consider this additional binding scheme that DDG uses. J/K for up/down highlights items (articles in this case). Enter when one is focused opens it. Ctrl+Enter opens it in a new tab.
I'll be glad to add features if it gains any traction. The only reason I kept it thin was to prevent having to read long lines of text. I hate that. Maybe I can split it into columns or something.
I agree with you on this - long lines of text are hard to read and break the reader's concentration. Narrow is good for reading. Maybe you could have another column where people could choose the content that they wanted to see? ie, the "Comments" or "Ask" pages?
I really like the clean design, but part of what i love about HN is the fact that you can quickly scan 20+articles just by reading single sentences of text. I would like this format better if it had some type of flipbook functionality mapped to the left and right arrow keys, so I can quickly run through more content.
Saw a bunch of suspicious looking buttons that made me suspect clicking them might cause me to perform actions I do not want to perform on well-known sites I may currently be logged into in my current browser session.
This is great, could see it be a good alternative if on another person's touch device.
At first I thought, "Why would I want to bother with this?" but a few minutes later I realized I was ten articles down having read more than usual for one visit.
