rajatkulkarni95 / hckrnws

A custom frontend for a better reading experience of HackerNews

Hey I'm Rajat!

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hckrnws's Issues

Open links in new tab

When I initially tried it, hckrnws used to open links in new tab. That don't seem to be the case anymore. Would it be possible to bring that feature back?

Experiment with Optional Fonts

Option to switch between IBM Plex Sans, a Serif Font, A Mono font or fallback to System fonts

RSS Feeds

Hello

Is there a way to get rss feeds from the site, similar to what we get on https://news.ycombinator.com/rss?

Thanks!

Apostrophes are not rendered (`'` is `'`)

I'm not familiar with JS/TS or webdev really so can't really create a PR to fix this.

Bug: Copying comment url copies invalid url

In any story for example https://www.hckrnws.com/stories/39079256, if one tries to copy any comment url we get VERCEL_URL/stories/<comment_id>.

I think you can fix this from environment variables exposed via vercel panel if you are using vercel. If not then I think specifying the required variable in next.config.js will fix this bug.

docker

is there any plans for docker-compose?

Add a Sepia theme

I've seen sepia themes to be lighter on the eye for longer viewing times.

Could experiment with that color tone, with users having the option to choose between light/sepia/dark for the app

add HN sections

Adding HN sections (i.e past, show, ask) would be convenient to browse the website with ease. To me, it's the last feature that this project lacks before it becomes the best HN front-end.

Infinite scrolling of posts

While infinite scrolling does make for a better ux since you can endlessly read, it does result in a few drawbacks,

• No server side rendering, since the fetch needs to be client side
• No easy way to access pages via url (page/6)

A good way for it to start would be via implementing it for the other tabs like show/ask to see how it works

do you have an instances list

Hckrnws.com Domain Lost?

Is the domain lost? Was it not renewed?

add link to comment

It would be nice to be able to link to a comment, which will show the comment and its thread. Just like you can do with ycombinator when clicking x hours ago on a comment or the share button on reddit.

Add a link to go to parent comment

I use a RSS reader to get notifications for responses to my HN comments. When I follow these links to view the comments, I'm unable to click the < arrow to view my parent comment because I navigated directly to the child comment.

It would be helpful to have a link to view the parent comment under each comment, like HN does.

Build errors

Ran into this issue while trying to use the docker version, then tried building from source and got these errors. I was able to build myshen's older fork.

Error occurred prerendering page "/ask/2". Read more: https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/prerender-error
SyntaxError: Unexpected token C in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse ()
at parseJSONFromBytes (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:6498:19)
at successSteps (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:6472:27)
at node:internal/deps/undici/undici:1145:60
at node:internal/process/task_queues:140:7
at AsyncResource.runInAsyncScope (node:async_hooks:204:9)
at AsyncResource.runMicrotask (node:internal/process/task_queues:137:8)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

Build error occurred
Error: Export encountered errors on following paths:
/ask/[number]: /ask/2
at /opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/export/index.js:425:19
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async Span.traceAsyncFn (/opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/trace/trace.js:79:20)
at async /opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/build/index.js:1403:21
at async Span.traceAsyncFn (/opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/trace/trace.js:79:20)
at async /opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/build/index.js:1261:17
at async Span.traceAsyncFn (/opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/trace/trace.js:79:20)
at async Object.build [as default] (/opt/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@13.2.3_@babel[email protected][email protected][email protected]/node_modules/next/dist/build/index.js:72:29)

Add an option to install the site as a PWA