Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications.
I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience.
I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose).
About the only reason I can see for making such things an "app" of some kind is to restrict how the user can use it and hack the results.
When I'm at home, I can just refresh the /threads page in the background. iPhones don't have a "background" to refresh such things in, so this is a useful niche.
I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)
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Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications.
I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience.
I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose).
About the only reason I can see for making such things an "app" of some kind is to restrict how the user can use it and hack the results.
When I'm at home, I can just refresh the /threads page in the background. iPhones don't have a "background" to refresh such things in, so this is a useful niche.
I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)