Starling for HN

It crashes every time I post a comment, but the comment does submit successfully so it does “work”.

I have been using this app for a few months. In general it’s a good app and most stories from HN can be read. Some stories, however, never load the comments. The app also seems to crash every time I try to submit a comment. Whether the comment actually posts is hit or miss. I made the mistake of writing out a 4-5 paragraph comment, only to have it crash and all the text disappear into the ether. My fault for not selecting all and copying before each comment attempt I suppose. Prior to submitting this review, I clicked on the “App support” link so I could report it to the app author, but it just returned a 404 from GitHub. So it seems like this is just a side project with little active development.

Upvoting-downvoting comments and exporting the bookmarks list (to JSON or CSV) is all I need to make this five stars. Hands down beats pretty much every other HN client on the App Store.

Great. But... want to add posts

Only thing I would like to see is being able to make posts and upvote comments. I did turn off the open links in reader view since I can use the amazing article summary tool when I want a glimpse and open the full link when I want to see it all but I understand wanting to avoid possible adds etc

This is my go to reader for hacker news. There are only two changes I’d love to see. 1) allow navigation of articles from the bottom for one handed use. Eg. going back should be on the bottom for big phones 2) have some sort of delay before launching external links, because scrolling is especially tedious when comments have lots of links Other than that it’s 100!

When trying to sign in, it fails and a red banner appears at the very top of the screen. Can’t read the banner. The app itself is very nice

Client looks awesome but login fails, and the error message doesn’t display properly on the screen so it’s unreadable. Will happily change my rating if this gets resolved