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HN now mostly readable on mobile
- pnt12 11y agoDoesn't work on my tablet, I get the desktop website with tiny letters. If I zoom in, I have to scroll horizontally to read the comments, which is a pain in the butt.
- protomyth 11y agoI wouldn't mind HN upping the indention when I have an iPhone 6+ in landscape mode. Its kind of hard to tell parents and children.
- sgrove 11y agoThis is the only challenge I have with it as well, otherwise it's a fantastic experience.
- eatonphil 11y agoI have a similar issue on my Nexus 6 in portrait mode.
- Viper007Bond 11y agoA way to collapse replies would also be appreciated. Sometimes I just want to read the top-level comments and scrolling through dozens of replies to find the next topic of discussion can be frustrating.
- mikeash 11y agoI'd like to second this one. Sometimes the top comment ends up being one of those that spawns a gigantic and completely unproductive conversation, and it would be nice to be able to move past it easily.
- Mahn 11y agoI've been using this minimal extension for a while solely for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapsible-c/hockhafcdegocajmjhafgjncjpodihkd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap... It's definitively something that should be built in though.
- mikeash 11y agoThat looks pretty good. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it doesn't help for iPhone reading, though. Stupid Apple....
- notduncansmith 11y agoFor desktop at least, I use HN Special which includes this feature.
- ekanes 11y agoAbsolutely. Everyone replies to the first comment, and it takes forever to get down to later/lower conversations.
- MBCook 11y agoiPhone 6 in portrait, same issue. Almost impossible to tell them apart without paying incredibly close attention.
- fenomas 11y agoI wonder if they've tried keeping all comments at the same width, while indenting children by a visible amount? That is: |---screen---| |-comment--| |--reply---| |--reply---| That way you'd have to scroll down+right to follow a thread, but at least you could tell the difference between children and siblings, and never get super-narrow posts deep in a thread.
- danieltillett 11y agoNow if I only can stop fat-fingering down all the great posts.
- cryptoz 11y agoYep - it would also be great if HN provided an indicator of which way you voted. As it stands, I'd say I probably get it right about 75% of the time, but who knows? It's impossible to tell if you've upvoted or downvoted a comment still; and especially on mobile, I bet I get it wrong pretty often.
- wyldfire 11y agoHow long do you have to be on the site or how much karma do you need in order to downvote?
- NhanH 11y agoAbout 500 karma to be able to downvote comment, I believe (you can't down vote submission).
- danieltillett 11y agoIt has been suggested many time before to move the up and down arrows apart on mobile - something like ^ —- greatposter —- v The one good that come from the current system is it helps you avoid taking a down vote personally since it could always be a fat-fingered up vote.
- hammock 11y agoYou're on iPhone aren't you. Having used both iPhone and Android for some time now I think its crazy how much more accurate Android is with pointing at small links on-screen. And in the rare instance it's not confident about what you meant to push, it will zoom in a bubble and ask you to click again (confirm), where the iPhone will just not do anything.
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- freditup 11y agoThe comments don't render correctly on FF on Android. They all render one after another and it's impossible to tell which comments are replies and which aren't. :(
- duffyt 11y agoSame problem here. You can see the same effect on desktop FF by narrowing your window.
- Avshalom 11y agobeen like this for a week maybe. I thought this was going to be them fixing it. 'pparently not
- reddotX 11y agoHN renders pretty good on Ubuntu Phone
- amalcon 11y agoSame here. I've been using a desktop user-agent to get rid of this.
- dang 11y agoYes, that's totally broken. Sorry; we'll fix it.
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- buu700 11y agoI'm surprised this wasn't announced officially by dang. I spent some time the other day searching for the official announcement of HN's new responsive design, and just figured I must've missed it.
- itchyouch 11y agoUnfortunately, it seems that the it broke the iOS client, Akepa . I'm sure other clients are also affected.
- smacktoward 11y agoThey've been telling client developers that they should move from screen-scraping to using the API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API) for a while now. I don't know if that's the problem with this specific client, but you may want to check with the developers and see if it is, and if so, what their ETA is for getting onto the API.
- 0942v8653 11y agoThe issue with the current API is that it's read-only, so clients can't completely migrate to it. Using a combination of the API for reads and scraping for checking responses to writes makes things a bit difficult.
- falcolas 11y agoSome deeply nested conversations get the formatting hammer after a certain depth. A gentle slide to the right suddenly becomes 2" or more, with text jammed into half an inch of screen width.
- bhauer 11y agoOn Windows Phone (I know, fringe audience, but I love it), I need to slightly adjust the zoom level on the comments view pages. The viewport is slightly narrower than the page's content, by about 15%. But otherwise, and even with that small matter, it's a change that makes mobile use easier. Reading has always been fairly easy on mobile in my opinion, but clicking the right thing (e.g., the comments links) required either zooming or very careful aim. It's nice to not have that challenge any more. I will echo the request for a bit more indentation for child comments. But I also understand the hesitation to add too much indentation given the narrow viewport.
- 0xffff2 11y agoOn a Lumia 920 right now, and it looks fine to me.
- asyncwords 11y agoLumia 640, looks fine for me too.
- IgorPartola 11y agoWhooooooo! Thank you dang and team. I have been very critical of the site's mobile unfriendliness in the past. Now I can use this as an example of a small change that makes a big difference. Certainly better late than never. You have probably saved me thousands over the lifetime in new glasses and contacts.
- sl1e 11y agoAwesome, thank you,
- sohkamyung 11y agoCan the upvote and downvote triangular arrows be given more separation? On my Firefox Mobile, they appear together vertically close together and I fear I may tap on the wrong one.
- threefour 11y agoThank you
- thedrbrian 11y agoAnd now we get massive text. Responsive
- asveikau 11y agoSeems like the last week or so the comment indentation has been worse on Android with Chrome on a 7" tablet. It used to be a larger indent. Now I can't tell who's replying to what without thinking about it.
- VikingIV 11y agoI just found this out by trying the site in mobile Chrome for the first time in months. Pleasant surprise!
- mrzool 11y agoWelcome to 2013, HN!