It's much better than before, but still doesn't feel good on my mobile devices (Jolla, 540x960 and (Lumia 920, 768x1280).
I don't like how comments are displayed, why is there no auto word-wrap?
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?
#192Keep
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Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#194Thank 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…
Agreed on the need for larger vote buttons.
What about placing the vote buttons on the left side of the ranking number?
There would be less of a chance to misclick and end up clicking the article link instead. You would also have the opportunity to make more room for the vote buttons since you can then afford to place the ranking number closer to the article title, since the ranking number is non-interactive.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#195On my S5 I get a margin. IMHO it's not necessary (or should be smaller at least).
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#196Keep it and move forward improving.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#197New markup is better, however it would be good if "request desktop site" button on adroid worked for extreme cases.
And iOS. I often use this feature.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#198Much better, I don't have to keep zooming in and this fits my screen a lot better.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"think thrice before using your votes". I remember this being also used as the justification for not having clearly separated up/down buttons. I totally disagree with it, fwiw.
I personally think "having an interface that makes it nigh impossible to downvote when you meant to upvote" should be a prerequisite for the "think thrice before using your votes" goal...
Well at least they're doing something to address it now.
In any case, I still disagree with the lack of a reverse vote option, especially when upvoting also serves as an archival mechanism, and downvoting removes the opportunity to use that functionality permanently.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#200whatever it is, it will def. be better than the old HN on mobile.