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The change should be done in the browser. It's just dumb that we don't have reflow in Firefox mobile. Chrome seems to do it fine (but lack of adblock makes it my non default browser). News.yc is a simple, easy site. Browsers should just work on it.
Making a one-column text-only website work on mobile is trivial with a meta tag and a few lines of CSS.
Thanks for the boreal reference. Finally an app that can actually login an post comments. Beautiful app so far. Though I can't find the reply to comment option.
I've found this site as one of the easier to use ones on mobile?
The text having a fix width is a pain. On my screen and with my eyes, I have to zoom in and scroll each line back and forth. Makes it annoying to read.
In the meanwhile, this is super mobile and tablet-friendly: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ I've been using it for more than a year now and I nearly never visit it Hacker News directly on mobile.
> The change required is tiny; I'm sure even I'm this thread someone will be able to propose the optimal change to make. Apparently, it's not tiny, which was the response that came up the last time. ...the last time was about two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7330107 They did roll out a tiny mobile fix in March: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206427
So it doesn't seem like the problem is completely insoluble.
The change should be done in the browser. It's just dumb that we don't have reflow in Firefox mobile. Chrome seems to do it fine (but lack of adblock makes it my non default browser). News.yc is a simple, easy site. Browsers should just work on it.
Making a one-column text-only website work on mobile is trivial with a meta tag and a few lines of CSS.
(What are those few lines of CSS btw?)
I've found this site as one of the easier to use ones on mobile?
It took 5 tries hitting the reply button, accidently giving you a down vote in the process... The text having a fix width is a pain. On my screen and with my eyes, I have to zoom in and scroll each line back and forth. Makes it annoying to read.
The lack of text reflow when zooming in is really annoying though.