Turns out AlienBlue did release their original version as open source, but the code is four years out of date! Hmmm.
Yeah, I would probably end up scraping the HTML. I filed a bug about .json being broken two years ago, but even if it were fixed, it seems that LW has quite a few customizations that the JSON output likely has not caught up to...
Imagining:
Easy to read layout (I find myself doing a lot of zooming and panning in Mobile Safari)
Download articles and sequences for offline reading
Comments that are easy to read, vote on, and reply to on mobile, similar to e.g. popular reddit apps
Free as in beer and speech
Welcoming other features that would draw users, too. I have to wonder if there are open source Reddit clients I could adapt, given the forked codebase...
Would there be any interest in an iPhone app for LessWrong? I was thinking it might be a fun side project for learning Swift, and I didn’t see any search results on the App Store.
I’ll be there! Probably can’t stay more than two hours.
Sorry for missing the latest one. By the way, are you doing any more talks at the VHS? -Paul
Just wanted to say: thanks for the ideas!