Changelog

Oct. 19, 2023

v 3.4

• Support for macOS Sonoma.
• Fixes Hacker News Search due to the API changes.
• Adds two new tags, Launch HN and Jobs. Search tags can be found by clicking on the search field magnifying glass icon to open a menu.

Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? Crashes? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

June 25, 2023

v 3.3

• Story title is now expanded to two lines and white spacings has been adjusted. You can revert the story title back to single line in Preferences/Settings under Fonts & Colour tab.
• Fixes the Algolia search when there are no more results, it stops trying to fetch more results.
• Also improves Algolia search experience, no more delayed results and increase responsiveness.
• Fixes a crash when selecting a story and opening a new main window.
• Improve the network management of fetching and cancelling story comments. When selecting a story with a large number of comments and then switch to another story, the previous comments request are cancelled and discarded whilst the newly selected story comments are unaffected and delivers on time.
• Improves the implementation of Delete Cache button.
• Fixes Fonts & Colour pane animation transition.
• Various internal optimisations and possible fixes for memory leaks.
• Updates the App Store screenshots and on GitHub.

Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? Crashes? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Jan. 24, 2023

v 3.2

HacKit is now two years old on Friday 22nd January 2023!

The persistent store has been upgraded and is not downgradable.

• Supports for macOS Ventura.
• Stories are now indexed by Spotlight which means that you can search stories outside of HacKit and open the story to read it in HacKit.
• Adds a new toolbar button, menu item and Touch Bar button, Filter Stories, which filter unread stories. It can also be accessed with a keyboard shortcut, ⌘L.
• Improves story selection handling.
• Fixes a bug which prevents opening a story through Services menu.
• Displays “No Result Found” when searching through Algolia and user-defined folders.
• Fixes a bug to actually add a story to (or remove a story from) a folder when a story is opened in a new window.
• Adjust the appearance of the sidebar bottom bar to make it look visually distinct.
• Remove sidebar de-emphasised selection appearance.
• Story title has been expanded two lines maximum and tail truncate at the last line. (Not stories list).
• Improve handling of stories title by unescaping entities.
• Jump to Selection (⌘J) highlights the row if it is unfocussed.
• Fixes the handling of renaming folders.
• Various internal optimisations.
• A minor update to the previous version 3.1.

Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? Crashes? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Oct. 1, 2022

v 3.0

• HacKit has been upgraded to version 3.0!
• The minimum requirement is macOS Monterey onwards.
• HacKit now persistently track stories and support folders management.
• The sidebar has been expanded and now include smart filters and folders.
• Folders can be created, renamed, deleted and reordered by drag and drop.
• Stories can be moved to folders by drag and drop, context menu or menu.
• Stories can also be removed from folders.
• Stories can be marked as read (or unread), favourited (or unfavourited) and hidden (or unhidden).
• Toolbar has new buttons related to marking stories.
• Likewise the Touch Bar has the same new buttons.
• Context menu has been rebuilt and redesigned and include marking stories and stories management by folders.
• The main menu has new submenus and items which relates to stories and folders.
• A new keyboard shortcut, ⇧⌘N for New Folder.
• On Preferences window, General tab. There is a new button, Delete, to clear the cache store, which delete folders and stories, it does not reset the app settings. If you do choose to clear the cache, it is highly advisable to relaunch HacKit immediately.
• Codebase internal optimisations.
• HacKit now include anonymous analytics usage.
• Privacy policy has been updated to reflect anonymous analytics.

Please report all bugs and inconsistencies to me. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Jan. 24, 2022

v 2.4

• Please accept my apologies, this is an important fix. Sorry about that!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Dec. 6, 2021

v 2.2

• Adds a Tip Jar. Tipping is completely optional and does not unlock additional features.
• Fixes bugs related to searching.
• Enhances the handling of search field.
• Display “There are no comments” on stories and polls that have no comments.

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me on Twitter, @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Oct. 11, 2021

v 2.1

• Set HacKit accent colour, which is orange as a nod to Hacker News.
• Minor UI cosmetic changes.
• Fixed issues when searching stories that could lead to a crash.
• Improved the capability of the reset button.
• Updated the App Store description.
• Updated the App Store screenshots.
• Updated the README markdown document on GitHub. You can read it here, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me on Twitter, @anosidium

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support