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Rick Harrison

narwhal 2.0 for reddit - A fast, gesture-based iPhone and iPad app for reddit

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Faiz Mokhtar
Finally, a great alternative to Alien Blue. Love the fact that I can quickly switch between night mode just by tapping the Narwhal logo on top without going to preferences. Kudos. 👍
Ken Finney
Maker
@faizmokh Thanks, Faiz! We appreciate that. 🍻
Tero Rinne
@faizmokh You can change between night/day mode on Alien Blue by triple tapping the header. No need to go to preferences.
Gus Leroy
It looks very snazzy but I would really like an option to view images just by swiping. In fact, why not swipe to see next post? Even better, a somewhat Reddit Enhancement Suite app where I can see all posts like a timeline with expanded content. [Edit: Seems like that's somewhat what Beam does (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) – sorry for the hijack!]
Ken Finney
Maker
@gus_leroy Man, your user photo is amazing! Also solid company name. 😀 To answer your questions, we tried to reserve gestures for the most used functions on reddit like upvoting, saving, hiding, replying, and collapsing. It makes for speedy non-stop swipey action! For viewing expanded content we have something called BFI aka Big F**king Image view aka Porn mode, where you can enable it to get full sized images directly in the scroll view. No tapping necessary! Cat pics and porn for days. That being said we’re always open to new ideas! We’ve got a badass community at /r/getnarwhal that’s contributed a lot to what narwhal is today. So come chill and share! Cheers Gus! 🍻
Gus Leroy
@kenfinney Thank you :) Have to say, thank you for a swift and great response. I still carry Narwhal in my phone and will check back on it for sure.
Jad Chaar
Been using it since the start. Great, feature-filled client!
Mark Bao
Best app for Reddit, hands-down. Extremely clean and easy to use and just a joy to use, especially on the iPad.
Ken Finney
Maker
I don’t know if I’m supposed to do this but I’d like to take a minute to give a shoutout to my partner @rickharrison. This release is the culmination of an insane amount of late nights, crazy high ups and downs, talking about narwhal literally everyday for *years*, experiencing what it’s like to get a bunch of angry 1 star reviews, experiencing what it’s like to get a bunch of amazing 5 star reviews, and the many many firsts that go along with building and maintaining an app like this. We fought, we celebrated, we drank way too many redbulls, ate too much pizza, I drank enough booze to kill a stampede of horses, and somehow we came out the other side. Looking back it’s been one of the best experiences I’ve had in life and I’m incredibly grateful I got to do it all with a dude as great as Rick. He’s a great friend and I’m pretty sure anyone that’s had a chance to work with him can attest he is 100% cal-i (props to anyone who remembers cyberathlete league!) o/🍻\o Let’s never stop making stuff. Unless we hit it big and can just play bf4 all day. Then let’s just do that. Also big props to @robcuilty and @artsabintsev for all their help! Thanks guys! o/🍻\o/🍻\o/🍻\o
David Notik
Alien Blue is a great app, with a rad UX, but a bit too arcane I think (as if Reddit itself wasn't arcane enough.) Narwhal is really well done and feels like Reddit, with some great mobile-specific UX and navigation choices (e.g. bringing up the Reddit "sidebar"). Really a delight on first use!