As of this afternoon, I received lots of emails reporting a bug in the app where:

1. Tapping on a story was taking to the link for the story instead of the comments. There was no way to access the comments.

2. All stories showed "now" as the time posted instead of the correct time.

3. Threads didn't display the title for the parent post.

This occurred due to Hacker News making some changes to its website's HTML today.

Since the Hacker News API is pretty much useless (it's a read only API and doesn't allow voting, favoriting, commenting etc. Also very hard to work with), my app relies on the website which it parses to get the content. It does the parsing using XPath. Due to the changes in the HTML, the XPath in the app were no longer valid.

I have already submitted an update to Apple and the Play Store for fixing this bug. Hoping to have it approved soon (hopefully sometime tonight/tomorrow).

I am really sorry about the inconvenience to all the users who rely on my app.

The apps are:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id1464477788

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.hack

Feel free to ask questions. Thanks.