Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:12 AM UTC

eru wrote: post #98

akamaka wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternately, how about being able to undo a vote, like reddit?

I remember we discussed that. I think once-for-all votes were an attempt at social engineering to shape the site.

I'm really curious what it was trying to social-engineer. I've seen dozens of sites with vote buttons and all of them except HN allow you to change your vote, because why wouldn't you? It's easy to engineer and obviously superior.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by adrianmacneil » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:13 AM UTC

Definitely keep it! As others have pointed out, it's not perfect, but definitely an improvement over the non-responsive version.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by earino » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:15 AM UTC

I wholeheartedly approve. It's not perfect, so I hope you do some good A/B testing to evolve layout. Pick a good metric.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by frik » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:15 AM UTC

Please increase the size of the vote buttons on mobile or place the up- and down-vote buttons not next to each other. (written on iPad)

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by radlad » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:18 AM UTC

jeffjose wrote: post #112

alpb wrote: post #111

Just adopt https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ it does wonders on phone/tablet form factors. This design will not easily accomodate slightly larger displays such as tablets very well. This screenshot someone posted points out a lot of CSS problems regarding font size and the navigation layout: http://i.imgur.com/idgEFon.png

Your screenshot has a different username. Thought I'd let you know.

I think it was posted by the user elsewhere in this thread. :)

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by gbog » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:22 AM UTC

51Cards wrote: post #101

One thought... Use the full screen width on the main screen. On chrome android there are large left/right margins... 20% of the screen space is wasted.

Same here, with Firefox for Android. Left and right margins are not necessary. Also, please let all text wrap and let users zoom in and out the way they want.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by waves » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:31 AM UTC

Keep. No zoom needed. Great

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by nessence » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:32 AM UTC

On iOS9, iPhone6: The comment box and comments overflow which require horizontal scrolling or zooming out. It worked better before simply because zooming in (double tap) is easier than zooming out (pinch).

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by kercker » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:34 AM UTC

g0atbutt wrote: post #11

This 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

"This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment."

This viewport bug appears when I just open the comment page.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by leoh » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:35 AM UTC

kylec wrote: post #72

leoh wrote: post #65

Much 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.

Really? It looks kind of bad, but is more functional methinks.