goranmoomin / HackerNews

macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit.
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Feature: Add an optional preview line/poster frame for items in view #8

Open timfallmk opened 3 years ago

timfallmk commented 3 years ago

I would consider this a very optional feature, but still a nice to have. Loading a text preview (first 2-3 lines) of a linked article, if possible, or a small poster frame/icon would be nice for visual scrolling or checking whether it's worth it to open links in a browser.

Obviously this would increase the number of requests and data size used by the app, but some opportunistic loading could take the edge off that. Given that, and that a lot of people just prefer text, it would definitely be an opt-in feature.

I'm happy to do this myself.

Awesome work!