Ask HN: Mobile site

#1

Post by rangibaby » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 1:36 PM UTC

HN looks a bit fuarked on my iPhone now. Could you please change it back to serving the desktop version?

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#2

Post by cauterized » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

IMO the idea of a mobile site is a good one but right now the font sizes are definitely too large for comfortable reading (esp in landscape orientation) where before they were way too small.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#3

Post by flibble » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

The new version looks much better to me on iPhone 6. No longer do I have to zoom in or use landscape mode to read the titles.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#4

Post by cddotdotslash » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

It's like they added a percentage width to some tables and now it's "mobile." (Edit: spelling)

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#5

Post by iphone_user » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

I second the request. Some things that makes it specially hard to read on iPhone:

1) It wastes a lot of horizontal space with white paddings on both sides. It may be a stylistic decision but takes valuable space that could be used to show more words in a line, leading to less lines 2) There is no right padding in the text lines, the text touches the right side of the inner container.

All in all it would be better to simply serve the Desktop version, maybe with an slightly increased font size so it is more readable.

And please don't make the same mistake many sites (Slashdot among them) make: trying to ram an ill thought bad designed new version on their faithful userbase just for the sake of change and novelty.

There are things to improve but the best way to determine it is to actually test it beforehand in the same environment it will be used in production. These changes were definitively not tested on iPhone's Safari and it shows.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#6

Post by nether » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:02 PM UTC

No, I vastly prefer the mobile site on my phone.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#7

Post by chimeracoder » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

Are the comments rendered differently on the mobile site, or simply the homepage? For what it's worth, I'm still getting the desktop version of the comments on Firefox for Android[0].

[0] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv36.0) Gecko/36.0 Firefox/36.0)

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#8

Post by colinprince » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

cautiously optimistic. keep iterating..

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#9

Post by lettergram » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

I kinda like the mobile version, it seems to have a bit to go, but not bad.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#10

Post by izolate » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

The padding around the content on the page is a bit excessive.