Much better, Please keep it.
Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
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Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#72Much better, but not great on iPhone 5c: http://i.imgur.com/beYBY5f.jpg
Given a choice between this and the old non-mobile-optimized site, I'd take the latter. Everything is too squished on smaller iPhones.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#73An scroll to top element, usually a fixed floating arrow in other sites, will be nice on discussion page. I've found myself scrolling a lot to see first comments and post details on this very page. As an extra arrow is not a good use of screen space, only showing it on scroll up might be a better idea.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#74Cool, but please reduce margins to save precious horizontal space!
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#75It's an improvement, keep pressing on. One thing I'd do is find a way to minimize the detail line below the headline. It doesn't need to be as large - it tends to wrap into a second line (at least on my iOS 9.1 iPhone 5s). The detail line also doesn't need to be as verbose, IMO... e.g.: 200 points by foobar 8 hours ago | flag | 192 comments could be simplified to 200 pts by foobar 8h ago | flag | 192c
Or something like this (c is a bit ambiguous for me) 200 pt, foobar (8h) | flag | 192 cmts
If the clickable area is what counts, how about this?
+200 by foobar | flag | comment (192 in 8h)Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#76On iPhone5S the comments are so much better (don't have to zoom) but the front page is harder to read. I suggest less padding on the side and a smaller font for the titles.
I'd say it's better than before (don't have to zoom in) just a little tweek and will be perfect.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#77Thank you for making this. My one suggestion would be to make the upvote/downvote arrows larger and farther apart. I'd say around 5% of my votes on mobile are incorrect. Often I'm lazy about zooming in to make sure I hit the correct arrow. Actually, I'd like that change on larger devices as well. I've often misvoted on my Surface. As large touchscreens become more popular (iPad Pro, the Surface line, etc), I could se…
I'm curious why there needs to be a lower bound at all
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#78This looks (and more importantly, works) much better than before. For those not on mobile, here is what the new layout looks like on an iPhone 6s on iOS 9.0.1. ==> http://imgur.com/5LgB1xB.jpg Here is what the comment page looks like ==> http://i.imgur.com/ugOASR5.png This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment ==> http://i.imgur.com/i0Ekiod.png and http://i.imgur.com/T0NDIFc.png
But why does horizontal mode (my standard casual reading mode) look so blown out? ==> http://imgur.com/5Z6q6wI (iOS 9, iPhone 5, Safari)
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Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#79This looks (and more importantly, works) much better than before. For those not on mobile, here is what the new layout looks like on an iPhone 6s on iOS 9.0.1. ==> http://imgur.com/5LgB1xB.jpg Here is what the comment page looks like ==> http://i.imgur.com/ugOASR5.png This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment ==> http://i.imgur.com/i0Ekiod.png and http://i.imgur.com/T0NDIFc.png
But why does horizontal mode (my standard casual reading mode) look so blown out? ==> http://imgur.com/5Z6q6wI (iOS 9, iPhone 5, Safari)
Looks like they need to use -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#80Much better here (android). Some things: 1. Possibly too much whitespace left/right of content. 2. Are the rank numbers necessary, or could they be moved to the meta-detail? 3. Bigger upvote and comment targets would be nice.
Moving rank to the meta-detail line (alongside the point-count) could work very well.